New Ideas in String Phenomenology

14 Feb 2017, 13:00 → 17 Feb 2017, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

SR 2, building 2A (DESY Hamburg)

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the status and prospects in models of string phenomenology and string cosmology in light of the recent LHC and Planck data. Topics will include particle physics and GUT model building in type II string theory/F-theory and heterotic strings, string models of inflation and dark matter, and the connection to precision data from the LHC, Planck and recent gravitational wave observations by LIGO.

 

The workshop includes 27 talks in four days. The talks will be 25 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion.

 

 

 

List of confirmed speakers:

 

A. Achucarro		E. Pajer
R. Blumenhagen		S. Parameswaran
M. Cicoli		F. Quevedo
J .Conlon		D. Roest
E. Dudas		F. Rühle
T. Grimm		M. Sloth
A. Hebecker		W. Taylor
A. Lukas		I. Valenzuela
F. Marchesano		T. van Riet
D. Marsh		T. Watari
L. McAllister		T. Weigand
V. Mehta		L. Witkowski
M. Montero		T. Wrase
H.P. Nilles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions regarding the organization, please contact Wilfried Buchmüller (DESY), Mafalda Dias (DESY), Jonathan Frazer (DESY), Paul Oehlmann (DESY) or Alexander Westphal (Chair, DESY).

 

 

Tuesday 14 February

1 What is the Magnetic Weak Gravity Conjecture for Axions?

Speaker: Dr Lukas Witkowski (APC Paris)

Slides NewIdeas0217LTW.pdf

2 Generalized Global Symmetries and Quantum Gravity

Speaker: Mr Miguel Montero (Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC)

Slides talkv1-hamburgo.pdf

3 The Weak Gravity Conjecture and the Axionic Black Hole Paradox

Speaker: Prof. Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)

Slides Hebecker.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

4 Multifield inflation with ultra-light fields

Speaker: Ana Achucarro

5 Some Lessons from Many-Field Inflation

Speaker: Dr David Marsh (Cambridge)

18:00 Reception

Wednesday 15 February

6 Searching for Axion-Like Particles and Dark Matter with Active Galactic Nuclei

Speaker: Dr Conlon Joseph (Oxford Univeristy)

Slides ConlonHamburg.pdf

7 Constrained Superfields from Anti-D3-Branes

Speaker: Dr Timm Wrase (TU Vienna)

Slides Timm_Wrase_-_Constrained_Superfields_from_Anti-D3-Branes_(Hamburg).pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

8 Effective Field Theory for Magnetic Compactifications

Speaker: Dr Emilian Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique)

Slides magnetic_effectivetheory_DESY.pdf

9 Matter Field Kahler Potentials from Localization

Speaker: Prof. Andre Lukas (University of Oxford)

12:30 Lunch Break

10 Stringy Origin of Discrete R-Symmetries

Speaker: Prof. Hans Peter Nilles (Univ. Bonn)

11 Where in F-theory is the Supersymmetric Standard Model?

Speaker: Prof. Washington Taylor (MIT)

Slides Hamburg-flat.pdf

12 On the power of F-theory

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

16:00 Coffee Break

13 Revisiting Kronecker's Jugendtraum

Speaker: Dr Taizan Watari (Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo)

14 Who’s afraid of terminal singularities?

Speaker: Dr Timo Weigand (Universität Heidelberg)

Slides Talk-DESY2017.pdf

19:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday 16 February

15 Flux flattening and axion monodromy

Speaker: Dr Fernando Marchesano (IFT-UAM/CSIC)

16 One-Loop Pfaffians and Large-Field Inflation

Speaker: Dr Fabian Ruehle (University of Oxford)

Slides presentation.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

17 String Moduli Stabilization and Large Field Inflation II

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

Slides Blumenhagen_DESY_2017.pdf

18 Cosmological singularities in holography

Speaker: Dr Marjorie Schillo (KU Leuven)

Slides Hamburg16:2:17.pdf

12:30 Lunch Break

19 Asymptotic Symmetries in de Sitter and Inflationary Spacetimes

Speaker: Prof. Martin S. Sloth (CP3-Origins, SDU)

20 Fibre Inflation: Global embedding and reheating

Speaker: Michele Cicoli (Bologna University)

21 The Conformal Limit of Inflation

Speaker: Dr Enrico Pajer (Utrecht University)

16:00 Coffee Break

22 On the nonlinear supergravity from anti-D3 branes

Speaker: Susha Parameswaran (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

23 Can Unstable Anti-Branes Serve as a Mechanism for Unwinding Inflation?

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Van Riet (KULeuven)

Slides hamburg2017.pdf

Friday 17 February

24 Galileon Symmetries

Speaker: Dr Diederik Roest (University of Groningen)

25 Backreaction Issues in Axion Monodromy and Minkowski 4-forms

Speaker: Ms Irene Valenzuela (IFT UAM/CSIC)

Slides talk_valenzuela.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

26 Monodromy Dark Matter

Speaker: Viraf Mehta (University of Heidelberg)

Slides VMM_DESY2017.pdf

27 On Realistic Global Orientifolded Quivers

Speaker: Fernando Quevedo (ICTP)