String Pheno 2017 - July 3 - 7, 2017 - Virginia Tech

Program

Download a detailed schedule: StringPheno17Schedule.pdf

Presentations

Monday, July 3, 2017
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	G. Shiu
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.	S. Krippendorf
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.	Big Hierarchies, Little Hierarchies, and Flat Directions in the SUSY Landscape M. Reece - Reece.pdf (9.5MB)
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	What is(n’t) the Strong Form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture B. Heidenreich - Heidenreich.pdf (5MB)
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Axion Inflation and the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture T. Rudelius - Rudelius.pdf (3.1MB)
12:00 -12:30 p.m.	L. McAllister
2:30 - 3:00 p.m.	(Un)known (un)knowns for the effective action of stringy particle physics models in the era of alternative facts G. Honecker - Honecker.pdf (1.1MB)
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.	E6 Yukawa Ccouplings in F-theory as D-brane Instanton Effects I. Garcia-Etxebarria - Etxebarria.pdf (2.1MB)
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.	EXOTICA A. Faraggi - Faraggi.pdf (135KB)
4:30 - 5:00 p.m.	Constraints on the SM and Inflation from QG Conjectures I. Valenzuela - Valenzuela.pdf (6.9MB)
5:00 - 5:30 p.m.	The Swampland Conjecture and Large Field Inflation R. Blumenhagen - Blumenhagen.pdf (3.8MB)
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	Recent Results from ATLAS M. Vetterli - Vetterli.pdf (7.4MB)
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.	The Quest for Precision from the Higgs M. Goodsell - Goodsell.pdf (870KB)
10:00 - 10:30 a.m	Consistency and Phenomenology of Strings Without Supersymmetry S. Abel - Abel.pdf (14.9MB)
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	On Micro-states of 4-d Black Holes and their Stringy Origin M. Bianchi - Bianchi.pdf (1.6MB)
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Universality in a Large Ensemble of Geometries J. Halverson - Halverson.pdf (860KB)
12:00 -12:30 p.m.	Machine Learning and the String Landscape B. Nelson - Nelson.pdf (444KB)
2:30 - 2:50 p.m.	1A - Flux Flattening in D7-brane Inflation G. Zoccarato
	1B - Draining the Swampland Conjecture? - LVS and Landscape Tuning F. Wolf
	1C - F-Theoretic MSSMs at Weak Coupling D. Mayorga - Mayorga.pdf (1MB)
2:50 - 3:10 p.m.	1A - CONSTRAINTS FROM ABOVE AND BELOW MONODROMY DARK MATTER V. Mehta - Mehta.pdf (4.5MB)
	1B - The Toric SO(10) F-theory Landscape P. Oehlmann - Oehlmann.pdf (1.4MB)
	1C - On the Vacuum Structure of F-theory Compactifications H. Otsuka - Otsuka.pdf (888KB)
3:10 - 3:30 p.m.	1A - Primordial Black Holes Dark Matter from Axion Inflation F. Muia - Muia.pdf (3.1MB)
	1B - T-branes and Stability Walls S. Schwieger - Schwieger.pdf (302KB)
	1C - K. Choi
3:30 - 3:50 p.m.	1A - Phases of Axion Inflation W. Staessens - Staessens.pdf (1MB)
	1B - Exotic Representations and Singular 7-branes in F-theory N. Raghuram - Raghuram.pdf (153KB)
	1C - Surprisingly Complex Punctures from a Dynamical System F. Hassler - Hassler.pdf (603KB)
4:30 - 4:50 p.m.	2A - Holography for Composit Inflation L. Anguelova - Anguelova.pdf (149KB)
	2B - The Global Gauge Group Structure of F-theory Compactifications with U(1)s L. Lin - Lin.pdf (305KB)
	2C - No-Scale Supergravity and Approximate Global Symmetries D. Ciupke - Ciupke.pdf (307KB)
4:50 - 5:10 p.m.	2A - 3.5 KeV Line from String Axions V. Alfonso Diaz - Alfonso-Diaz.pdf (431KB)
	2B - Moduli of Heterotic Backgrounds and their Effective Theories E. Eik Svanes - Svanes.pdf (528KB)
	2C - A New Construction of Calabi-Yau Generalized Complete Intersections F. Apruzzi - Apruzzi.pdf (3.1MB)
5:10 - 5:30 p.m.	2A - New Toric Swiss Cheese Solutions R. Altman - Altman.pdf (1.8MB)
	2B - Hilbert Series and Mixed Branches of 3d, N = 4 T [SU (N )] theory F. Carta - Carta.pdf (969KB)
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	Where in F-theory is the supersymmetric standard model? W. Taylor - Taylor.pdf (398KB)
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.	The Power of F-theory: Anomalies & Gauge Coupling Functions T. Grimm - Grimm.pdf (2.9MB)
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.	(Non-)Abelian Discrete Symmetries in String/F-Theory & New Constraints on Particle Spectra M. Cvetic - Cvetic.pdf (11.3MB)
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	Compact T-branes F. Marchesano - Marchesano.pdf (5.3MB)
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Heterotic Wave Function Normalisation from Localization A. Lukas - Lukas.pdf (4.7MB)
12:00 - 12:30 p.m.	Non-Vanishing Superpotentials in Heterotic String Theory and Discrete Torsion B. Ovrut - Ovrut.pdf (747KB)
Thursday, July 6, 2017
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	Symmetry in Quantum Gravity and Other Swampland Constraints H. Ooguri - Ooguri.pdf (7.4MB)
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.	Searching for Signatures of Fundamental Physics in the CMB R. Flauger - Flauger.pdf (10.3MB)
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.	Extended Moduli Spaces and a corresponding Moduli Space Size Conjecture A. Hebecker - Hebecker.pdf (1.1MB)
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	F. Quevedo
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Gauge Backgrounds and Zero-Modes in F-Theory T. Weigand - Weigand.pdf (661KB)
12:00 -12:30 p.m.	Describing Algebraic Varieties to a Computer J. Rodriguez - Rodriguez.pdf (233KB)
2:30 - 2:50 p.m.	3A - Weak Gravity, Super-Planckian Fields and the Swampland Conjecture D. Klaewer - Klaewer.pdf (1MB)
	3B - Zero Mode Counting in F-Theory via CAP M. Bies - Bies.pdf (399KB)
	3C - Quantum Sheaf Cohomology on Grassmannians J. Guo - Guo.pdf (215KB)
2:50 - 3:10 p.m.	3A - An Axion-induced SM/MSSM Higgs Landscape and the Weak Gravity Conjecture A. Herraez - Herraez.pdf (6MB)
	3B - An Exploration of Threefold Bases in F-Theory Y. Wang - Wang.pdf (944KB)
	3C - (0,2) Mirrors to Toric Varieties Z. Chen - Chen.pdf (3MB)
3:10 - 3:30 p.m.	3A - Supergravitational Heterotic Galileons R. Deen - Deen.pdf (9.5MB)
	3B - Calabi-Yau Fourfolds with non-trivial Three-Form Cohomology S. Greiner - Greiner.pdf (240KB)
	3C - Inflation in Heterotic Supergravity Models with Torsion S. Angus - Angus.pdf (3MB)
3:30 - 3:50 p.m.	3A - Moduli and Maps in Type IIB H. Parsian - Parsian.pdf (290KB)
	3B - On Anomaly Cancellation in F-Theory Models P. Corvilain - Corvilain.pdf (4.3MB)
	3C - A Chern-Simons Pandemic M. Montero - Montero.pdf (223KB)
4:30 - 4:50 p.m.	4A - Constraining the Moduli Space of Trees in the F-Theory Landscape B. Sung - Sung.pdf (131KB)
	4B - Heterotic Line Budnle Models on Ellipticially Fibered Calabi-Yau Threefolds and the F-Theory Duals C. Brodie - Brodie.pdf (218KB)
	4C - Z. Sun
4:50 - 5:10 p.m.	4A - Quantifying the Scarcity of Weak Coupling Limits in F-theory Compactifications C. Long - Long.pdf (178KB)
	4B - Fourier Mukai Transformation of Vector Bundles Over Blown Up Spaces M. Karkheiran - Karkheiran.pdf (472KB)
	4C - Large Fields and Lattices J. Stout - Stout.pdf (333KB)
5:10 - 5:30 p.m.	4A - Stringy Instantons, Backreaction and Dimers E. Garcia-Valdec Tenreiro - Tenreiro.pdf (1.5MB)
	4B - Heterotic Target Space Duality and F-theory H. Feng - Feng.pdf (280KB)
Friday, July 7, 2017
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	M-Theory on Twisted Connected Sum G2-Manifolds H. Jockers - Jockers.pdf (1.9MB)
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.	Euler Characteris-cs of Crepant Resolu-ons of Weierstrass Models M. Esole - Esole.pdf (4.1MB)
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.	F-theory and AdS3/CFT2 C. Lawrie - Lawrie.pdf (878KB)
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	Heterotic Flux Compactications M. Garcia-Fernandez - Garcia-Fernandez.pdf (337KB)
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Computational Algebraic Geometry meets String Theory Rigid divisors and computing sheaf cohomology on Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces of toric 4-folds M. Stillman - Stillman.pdf (216KB)
12:00 -12:30 p.m.	Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and the String Landscape F. Ruehle - Ruehle.pdf (7.4MB)
2:30 - 3:00 p.m.	ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS IN COMPACT SPACES E. Dudas - Dudas.pdf (11.2MB)
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.	Gravitino Mass, Fluxes and Arithmetic Geometry T. Watari - Watari.pdf (1.8MB)
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.	F-theory with Quivers R. Valandro - Valandro.pdf (343KB)