XXIX Workshop Beyond the Standard Model

20 Mar 2017, 09:00 → 15 Mar 2018, 10:30 Europe/Berlin

Physikzentrum Bad Honnef

Physikzentrum Bad Honnef

The workshop focuses on recent developments in the theory of fundamental particles, the physics of the early universe, and mathematical physics. There will be four introductory pedagogical lectures as well as shorter talks by the participants.

Monday, 20 March

1 Minimalistic axion monodromy with an ultra-light throat mode

Speaker: Jakob Moritz

10:50 Lunch

2 Effective action from M-theory on twisted connected sum G2-manifolds

Speaker: Thaisa Guio

3 One-loop Pfaffians and Chaotic Inflation in String Theory

Speaker: Clemens Wieck

4 CP violation with an unbroken CP transformation

Speaker: Andreas Trautner

5 Weak Gravity Conjecture and the Axionic Black Hole Paradox

Speaker: Pablo Soler

6 Orientifolds of Warped Throats from Toric Calabi-Yau Singularities

Speaker: Ander Retolaza

14:40 Coffee

7 Effective field theory for magnetic compactifications

Speaker: Markus Dierigl

8 Yukawa Couplings from D-Branes on non-factorisable Tori

Speaker: Christoph Liyanage

9 String Interactions from 2D Gauge Theory Localisation

Speaker: Urmi Ninad

16:20 Coffee

10 What is the Magnetic Weak Gravity Conjecture for Axions?

Speaker: Philipp Henkenjohann

11 Deformations, Moduli Stabilisation and Loop-Corrected Gauge Couplings for Particle Physics on D-Branes

Speaker: Gabriele Honecker

Tuesday, 21 March

12 An introduction to Double and Exceptional Field Theory

Speaker: David Berman

13 Non-geometric backgrounds in string theory

Speaker: Erik Plauschinn

11:00 Coffee

14 Complex structures and zero-curvature conditions for sigma-models

Speaker: Dmitri Bykov

15 Superconformal index of N = 3 orientifold theories

Speaker: Shuichi Yokoyama

12:30 Lunch

Wednesday, 22 March

16 Gravitational Waves and Black Holes 1

Speaker: Alex Nielsen

17 Loops in exceptional field theory

Speaker: Axel Kleinschmidt

18 Interactions of higher-spin fields

Speaker: Karapet Mkrtchyan

11:00 Coffee

19 Maximal Supersymmetric Solutions in Supergravity

Speaker: Severin Lüst

20 AdS vacua from type IIB supergravity

Speaker: Constantin Muranaka

21 Modularity and integrality in F-theory compactifications on CY 4-folds

Speaker: Cesar Alberto Fierro Cota

12:30 Lunch

22 Quiver gauge theories from 6d superconformal gauge theories

Speaker: Babak Haghighat

23 Tensor Galileons and Gravity

Speaker: Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis

24 Lessons from manyfield inflation

Speaker: Mafalda Dias

25 A general framework for testing models of inflation

Speaker: Jonathan Frazer

16:00 Coffee

26 F-theory on Quotient Manifolds

Speaker: Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann

27 N=(2,2) supersymmetric WZW models in superspace

Speaker: Sibylle Driezen

28 Nearly AdS2 Supergravity

Speaker: Iris Golla

Thursday, 23 March

29 Quantum Integrable Models in the AdS/CFT correspondence

Speaker: Gleb Arutyunov

30 Gravitational Waves and Black Holes 2

Speaker: Alex Nielsen

11:00 Coffee

31 Higher spin at one loop and AdS/CFT in fractional dimension

Speaker: Tung Tran

32 Resurgence and integrable deformations

Speaker: Saskia Demulder

33 No Go Theorems for Strings and Quantum Fields

Speaker: Norbert Dragon

12:30 Lunch

Monday, 12 March

34 TBA

Speaker: TBA TBA