Bethe Forum 2015

15 Jun 2015, 12:00 → 19 Jun 2015, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

2.019 Seminarraum 1 bctp (Bonn)

Bethe Forum
String Cosmology
15th - 19th June 2015
Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics Bonn, Germany

Organising committee

• Rolf Kappl
• Sven Krippendorf
• Hans Peter Nilles
• Martin W. Winkler

Monday 15 June

13:00 Registration

1 Hunting explicit de Sitter vacua in the landscape

Speaker: Mr Markus Rummel (University of Oxford)

15:00 Coffee break

2 Reception

Tuesday 16 June

3 F-term Axion Monodromy

Speaker: Prof. Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)

12:00 Lunch break

4 Special points of inflation in flux compactification

Speaker: Dr Thomas Grimm (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

15:00 Coffee break

Wednesday 17 June

5 Weak Gravity Conjecture

Speaker: Prof. Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin)

12:00 Lunch break

6 High Scale Moduli Stabilization and Axion Inflation

Speaker: Ralph Blumenhagen (Max-Planck-Insititut fuer Physik)

15:00 Coffee break

Thursday 18 June

7 Moduli stabilization and SUSY breaking

Speaker: Dr Emilian Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique)

12:00 Lunch break

14:45 Coffee break

8 Bethe Colloqium: Sphaleron and Baryon Number Violating Processes

Speaker: Prof. Henry S.-H. Tye (Cornell)

Friday 19 June

9 Aligned Axion Inflation

Speaker: Prof. Kiwoon Choi

12:00 Lunch break

10 Vacuum energy sequestering and spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry

Speaker: Dr Ido Ben-Dayan Ben-Dayan (DESY)