New Ideas in String Phenomenology
from
Tuesday 14 February 2017 (13:00)
to
Friday 17 February 2017 (13:00)
Monday 13 February 2017
Tuesday 14 February 2017
14:30
What is the Magnetic Weak Gravity Conjecture for Axions?
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Lukas Witkowski
(
APC Paris
)
What is the Magnetic Weak Gravity Conjecture for Axions?
Lukas Witkowski
(
APC Paris
)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
15:00
Generalized Global Symmetries and Quantum Gravity
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Miguel Montero
(
Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC
)
Generalized Global Symmetries and Quantum Gravity
Miguel Montero
(
Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC
)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
15:30
The Weak Gravity Conjecture and the Axionic Black Hole Paradox
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Arthur Hebecker
(
Heidelberg University
)
The Weak Gravity Conjecture and the Axionic Black Hole Paradox
Arthur Hebecker
(
Heidelberg University
)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
16:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
16:30
Multifield inflation with ultra-light fields
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Ana Achucarro
Multifield inflation with ultra-light fields
Ana Achucarro
16:30 - 17:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
17:00
Some Lessons from Many-Field Inflation
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David Marsh
(
Cambridge
)
Some Lessons from Many-Field Inflation
David Marsh
(
Cambridge
)
17:00 - 17:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
18:00
Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Bistro
Wednesday 15 February 2017
10:00
Searching for Axion-Like Particles and Dark Matter with Active Galactic Nuclei
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Conlon Joseph
(
Oxford Univeristy
)
Searching for Axion-Like Particles and Dark Matter with Active Galactic Nuclei
Conlon Joseph
(
Oxford Univeristy
)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
10:30
Constrained Superfields from Anti-D3-Branes
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Timm Wrase
(
TU Vienna
)
Constrained Superfields from Anti-D3-Branes
Timm Wrase
(
TU Vienna
)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
11:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
11:30
Effective Field Theory for Magnetic Compactifications
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Emilian Dudas
(
Ecole Polytechnique
)
Effective Field Theory for Magnetic Compactifications
Emilian Dudas
(
Ecole Polytechnique
)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
12:00
Matter Field Kahler Potentials from Localization
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Andre Lukas
(
University of Oxford
)
Matter Field Kahler Potentials from Localization
Andre Lukas
(
University of Oxford
)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
12:30
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
Room: Canteen
14:30
Stringy Origin of Discrete R-Symmetries
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Hans Peter Nilles
(
Univ. Bonn
)
Stringy Origin of Discrete R-Symmetries
Hans Peter Nilles
(
Univ. Bonn
)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
15:00
Where in F-theory is the Supersymmetric Standard Model?
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Washington Taylor
(
MIT
)
Where in F-theory is the Supersymmetric Standard Model?
Washington Taylor
(
MIT
)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
15:30
On the power of F-theory
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Thomas Grimm
(
Utrecht University & Max Planck Institute for Physics
)
On the power of F-theory
Thomas Grimm
(
Utrecht University & Max Planck Institute for Physics
)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
16:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
16:30
Revisiting Kronecker's Jugendtraum
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Taizan Watari
(
Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo
)
Revisiting Kronecker's Jugendtraum
Taizan Watari
(
Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo
)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
17:00
Who’s afraid of terminal singularities?
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Timo Weigand
(
Universität Heidelberg
)
Who’s afraid of terminal singularities?
Timo Weigand
(
Universität Heidelberg
)
17:00 - 17:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
19:30
Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Fischerhaus
Thursday 16 February 2017
10:00
Flux flattening and axion monodromy
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Fernando Marchesano
(
IFT-UAM/CSIC
)
Flux flattening and axion monodromy
Fernando Marchesano
(
IFT-UAM/CSIC
)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
10:30
One-Loop Pfaffians and Large-Field Inflation
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Fabian Ruehle
(
University of Oxford
)
One-Loop Pfaffians and Large-Field Inflation
Fabian Ruehle
(
University of Oxford
)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
11:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
11:30
String Moduli Stabilization and Large Field Inflation II
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Ralph Blumenhagen
(
Max-Planck-Insititut fuer Physik
)
String Moduli Stabilization and Large Field Inflation II
Ralph Blumenhagen
(
Max-Planck-Insititut fuer Physik
)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
12:00
Cosmological singularities in holography
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Marjorie Schillo
(
KU Leuven
)
Cosmological singularities in holography
Marjorie Schillo
(
KU Leuven
)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
12:30
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
Room: Canteen
14:30
Asymptotic Symmetries in de Sitter and Inflationary Spacetimes
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Martin S. Sloth
(
CP3-Origins, SDU
)
Asymptotic Symmetries in de Sitter and Inflationary Spacetimes
Martin S. Sloth
(
CP3-Origins, SDU
)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
15:00
Fibre Inflation: Global embedding and reheating
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Michele Cicoli
(
Bologna University
)
Fibre Inflation: Global embedding and reheating
Michele Cicoli
(
Bologna University
)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
15:30
The Conformal Limit of Inflation
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Enrico Pajer
(
Utrecht University
)
The Conformal Limit of Inflation
Enrico Pajer
(
Utrecht University
)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
16:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
16:30
On the nonlinear supergravity from anti-D3 branes
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Susha Parameswaran
(
Leibniz Universität Hannover
)
On the nonlinear supergravity from anti-D3 branes
Susha Parameswaran
(
Leibniz Universität Hannover
)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
17:00
Can Unstable Anti-Branes Serve as a Mechanism for Unwinding Inflation?
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Thomas Van Riet
(
KULeuven
)
Can Unstable Anti-Branes Serve as a Mechanism for Unwinding Inflation?
Thomas Van Riet
(
KULeuven
)
17:00 - 17:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
Friday 17 February 2017
10:00
Galileon Symmetries
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Diederik Roest
(
University of Groningen
)
Galileon Symmetries
Diederik Roest
(
University of Groningen
)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
10:30
Backreaction Issues in Axion Monodromy and Minkowski 4-forms
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Irene Valenzuela
(
IFT UAM/CSIC
)
Backreaction Issues in Axion Monodromy and Minkowski 4-forms
Irene Valenzuela
(
IFT UAM/CSIC
)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
11:00
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A
11:30
Monodromy Dark Matter
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Viraf Mehta
(
University of Heidelberg
)
Monodromy Dark Matter
Viraf Mehta
(
University of Heidelberg
)
11:30 - 12:00
Room: SR 2, building 2A
12:00
On Realistic Global Orientifolded Quivers
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Fernando Quevedo
(
ICTP
)
On Realistic Global Orientifolded Quivers
Fernando Quevedo
(
ICTP
)
12:00 - 12:30
Room: SR 2, building 2A