StringPheno 2013

15 Jul 2013, 09:00 → 19 Jul 2013, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Seminar room 4 (DESY)

Monday 15 July

1 Registration

2 Welcome

3 F-/M-/Type II model building

Speaker: Weigand

Slides Weigand_StringPheno.pdf

10:30 Coffee

4 F-theory and Local Limits

Speaker: Schafer-Nameki

Slides Schafer-Nameki_StringPheno.pdf

5 Non-supersymmetric F-theory compactifications

Speaker: Grimm

6 Quantum Corrected Effective Action of String and F-theory

Speaker: Shiu

Slides Shiu_StringPheno.pdf

12:45 Lunch

7 The String Origin of SUSY Flavor Violation

Speaker: Camara

Slides Camara.pdf

8 F-theory GUTs with U(1)s and their embedding in E8

Speaker: Palti

Slides Palti_StringPheno.pdf

9 Discrete Flavor Symmetries in D-brane models

Speaker: Marchesano

Slides Marchesano_StringPheno.pdf

16:00 Coffee

10 Fluxes in F-theory/type IIB duality

Speaker: Valandro

Slides Gflux_HH_RV.pdf

11 Chiral Four-Dimensional F-Theory Compactifications With SU(5) and Multiple U(1)-Factors

Speaker: Klevers

18:00 Reception

Tuesday 16 July

12 On Inflation and Dark Energy in String Theory

Speaker: McAllister

13 Probing High-Scale Physics with Planck

Speaker: Baumann

Slides Baumann-StringPheno.pdf

10:30 Coffee

14 Statistical Preference for a Vanishingly Small Cosmological Constant

Speaker: Tye

Slides TYE-String2013.pdf

15 Cosmology and phenomenology of sequestered scenarios

Speaker: Cicoli

Slides CicoliTalk.pdf

16 Holographic Inflation

Speaker: Skenderis

Slides Skenderis.pdf

12:45 Lunch

Parallel

17 On quantum corrected Kaehler potentials in F-theory

Speaker: Dr Raffaele Savelli (Max Planck Institute for Physics - Munich)

Slides savelli.pdf

18 Phases, Flops and F-theory

Speaker: Dr Hirotaka Hayashi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

Slides SP2013.hayashi2.pdf

19 Geometric Engineering in Toric F-Theory

Speaker: Mr Jan Keitel (MPI fuer Physik)

Slides keitel_string_pheno_2013.pdf

20 Non-supersymmetric compactifications of string and F theory

Speaker: Mr Federico Bonetti (MPI Munich)

Slides bonetti2.pdf

21 Gauged supergravities and their symmetry-breaking vacua in F-theory

Speaker: Dr Tom Pugh (Max Planck Institut Munich)

Slides Pugh_-_String_Pheno_2013.pdf

15:55 Coffee

22 Discrete gauge symmetries and Open strings

Speaker: Dr Pascal Anastasopoulos (TUWien)

Slides Anastasopoulos.pdf

23 Discrete gauge symmetries in flux compactifications

Speaker: Mr Mikel Berasaluce-Gonzalez (Instituto de Fisica Teorica)

Slides Berasaluce_String_Pheno_2013.pdf

24 Discrete gauge symmetries From Supercritical Strings

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

Slides Miguel_Montero.pdf

25 Discrete Gauge Symmetries, Tachyon condensation, and topology of extra dimensions

Speaker: Mr Ander Retolaza (Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC)

Slides Ander_Retolaza.pdf

26 Discrete symmetries and mu in G2 compactification of M theory

Speaker: Ran Lu (University of Michigan)

27 Discrete Symmetries in Global MSSM-like D-Brane Models

Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Honecker (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Slides HONECKER-talk_StringPheno-Hamburg_July2013.pdf

Parallel

28 The Higgs mass from stringy high scale SUSY

Speaker: Mr Alexander Knochel (ITP Heidelberg)

Slides stringpheno2013_knochel.pdf

29 Phenomenological models based on mixture configurations of magnetized D-branes

Speaker: Keigo Sumita

Slides Stph2013.pdf

30 Holographic Scattering in General Gauge Mediation

Speaker: Dr Moritz McGarrie (DESY)

Slides STRINGPHENO.pdf

31 On powercounting in perturbative quantum gravity theories through color-kinematics duality

Speaker: Mr Reinke Sven Isermann (II. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Univ. Hamburg)

Slides SP2013_Isermann.pdf

15:55 Coffee

32 String compactifications on compact toric varieties

Speaker: Dr Magdalena Larfors (University of Oxford)

Slides Larfors.pdf

33 Heterotic Calabi-Yau Compactifications with Flux

Speaker: Mr Eirik Eik Svanes (University of Oxford)

Slides Svanes.pdf

34 Moduli in Orbifolds, Supergravity and Linear Sigma Models

Speaker: Dr Michael Blaszczyk (JGU Mainz)

Slides stringpheno2013_-_blaszczyk.pdf

35 Heterotic String Compactification with Gauged Linear Sigma Models

Speaker: Mr Fabian Ruehle (Physikalisches Institut, University of Bonn)

Slides Ruehle_StringPheno2013.pdf

36 Proton Stability and Gauge Coupling Unification Constraints on String-derived Models

Speaker: Mr Viraf Mehta (University of Liverpool)

Slides StringPheno2013VMM.pdf

37 String Derived Exophobic SU(6)xSU(2) GUTs

Speaker: Mr Hasan Sonmez (N/A)

Slides Hasan_StringPheno_2013.pdf

Parallel

38 Cosmic Structure and D-branes in the Universe

Speaker: Dr Ivonne Zavala (PI, Bonn University)

39 Singular anti-D3-branes in the KKLT scenario

Speaker: Mr Daniel Junghans (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Slides talk_junghans.pdf

40 KKLT axiverse with intermediate scale axions

Speaker: Dr Kwang Sik Jeong (Tohoku University)

Slides axiverse_KSJ.pdf

41 Almost-BPS solutions in multi-center Taub-NUT

Speaker: Mrs Christina Rugina (University of Bucharest, Imperial College, IFIN-HH)

Slides Rugina.pdf

42 Tensorial perturbations and stability of spherically symmetric d-dimensional black holes in string theory

Speaker: Filipe Moura (Universidade do Minho)

Slides mouraist2012.pdf

15:55 Coffee

43 Loop corrections to Delta N_eff in large volume models

Speaker: Mr Stephen Angus (University of Oxford)

Slides StephenAngus-StringPheno2013.pdf

44 Charting Inflationary Landscapes using Random Matrix Theory

Speaker: Dr Marsh David (University of Oxford)

45 Moduli-Induced Axion Problem

Speaker: Dr Tetsutaro Higaki (KEK)

Slides Moduli-Induced-Axion-Problem.pdf

46 Tensor Modes in Hybrid Natural Inflation

Speaker: Mr Sebastian Kraus (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University)

Slides KrausHamburg2013.pdf

47 Average and Dispersion and the cosmological parameters

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

Slides stringphenoIdo.pdf

Wednesday 17 July

48 Supergravity and Generalized (non) Geometry

Speaker: Dall'Agata

Slides dallagata2.pdf

49 Enhanced supersymmetry from vanishing Euler number

Speaker: Kashani-Poor

Slides string_pheno_2013_kashani.pdf

10:30 Coffee

50 Brane instantons and fluxes in F-theory

Speaker: Martucci

Slides fluxE3.pdf

51 Gauged supergravities and non-geometric Q/R-fluxes from asymmetric orbifold CFTs

Speaker: Lüst

Slides Luest.pdf

52 Aspects of non-geometric string compactifications

Speaker: Blumenhagen

Slides spheno2013.pdf

12:45 Lunch

Parallel

53 β-supergravity: a ten-dimensional theory with non-geometric fluxes

Speaker: Dr David Andriot (MPI Munich)

Slides Talk.pdf

54 β-supergravity: Generalized Geometry derivation and attempts for new solutions

Speaker: Mr Andre Betz (MPP Muenchen)

Slides Betz.pdf

55 On the structure of non-geometric frames in string theory

Speaker: Erik Plauschinn (University of Padova)

56 Patching-up non-geometric backgrounds

Speaker: Mr Felix Rennecke (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

Slides Rennecke_StPh13.pdf

57 Generalised Geometry of Supergravity

Speaker: Dr Charles Strickland-Constable (II. Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Slides CSC_String_Pheno_2013.pdf

15:55 Coffee

58 On The Gaugings of Maximal D=4 Supergravity

Speaker: Mr Gianluca Inverso (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

Slides Inverso_StringPheno2013.pdf

59 On electromagnetic duality and the vacua of N=8 supergravity

Speaker: Dr Adolfo Guarino (University of Bern (AEC))

Slides guarino.pdf

60 Simple metastable de Sitter vacua in N=2 gauged supergravity

Speaker: Dr Paul Smyth (EPFL)

Slides Smyth_String_Pheno_2013.pdf

61 New d=3, N=2 M-theory solutions

Speaker: Mr Andrei Micu (IFIN-HH Bucharest)

Slides Andrei_Micu.pdf

62 N=2 vacua in electrically gauged N=4 supergravities

Speaker: Mr Christoph Horst (University of Hamburg)

Slides horst.pdf

63 The rigid limit of N=2 supergravity

Speaker: Dr Luca Tripodi (Desy)

Slides Luca_Tripodi_-_The_rigid_limit_of_N=2_supergravity.pdf

Parallel

64 Heterotic orbifold classification

Speaker: Mr Maximilian Fischer (Technische Universität München)

Slides Fischer.pdf

65 Heterotic non-Abelian orbifolds

Speaker: Dr Saul Ramos-Sanchez (UNAM)

66 A ZIP Code for Quarks, Leptons and the Higgs Bosons

Speaker: Mr Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann (Bonn University)

67 R-Symmetries from heterotic Orbifold Compactifications

Speaker: Mr Matthias Schmitz (Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics)

Slides StringPheno2013_MSchmitz.pdf

68 Finding R Symmetries in an Extended Heterotic Mini-Landscape

Speaker: Mr Damian Kaloni Mayorga Pena (Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn)

15:55 Coffee

69 MSSM & NMSSM in light of modulus dominated SUSY-breaking in F-theory

Speaker: Dr Luis Aparicio (postdoc fellow at ICTP)

70 Top Yukawa in F-theory

Speaker: Mr Diego Regalado (IFT UAM/CSIC)

71 Mass mixing of U(1) symmetries in type II models

Speaker: Pablo Soler (University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong))

72 An intersecting D6-brane perspective on the DFSZ axion

Speaker: Dr Wieland Staessens (JGU Mainz)

Slides WielandStaessensStringPheno2013.pdf

73 New N=1 dualities from orientifold transitions

Speaker: Iñaki García Etxebarria (CERN)

Parallel

74 Global Embedding of D-branes at singularities

Speaker: Dr Sven Krippendorf (Physikalisches Institut, University of Bonn)

75 Explicit Constructions of Type IIB Calabi Yau Orientifolds and Moduli Stabilization Schemes

Speaker: Mr Pramod Kumar Shukla (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)

76 Comments on Racetrack Kahler Uplift

Speaker: Dr Yoske Sumitomo (Institute for Advanced Study, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Slides sumitomo.pdf

77 alpha'2 corrections and moduli stabilisation

Speaker: Francisco Pedro (DESY)

78 Construction of explicit de Sitter vacua in type IIB flux compactifications

Speaker: Mr Markus Rummel (University of Hamburg)

Thursday 18 July

79 Heterotic model building

Speaker: Groot Nibbelink

Slides GrootNibbelink.pdf

80 Line Bundle Standard Models

Speaker: Lukas

Slides Lukas.pdf

10:30 Coffee

81 Precision gauge unification from strings

Speaker: Ratz

Slides StringPheno13_Ratz.pdf

82 Hybrid conformal field theories

Speaker: Melnikov

Slides melnikov.pdf

83 Heterotic Moduli Stabilization

Speaker: de Alwis

12:45 Lunch

84 Anti-D3 branes: the good, the bad and the ugly

Speaker: Graña

85 One-loop modular integrals revisited

Speaker: Angelantonj

Slides SP2013-Angelantonj.pdf

86 Planck implications for high energy physics

Speaker: Takahashi

Slides Fumi_Takahashi.pdf

16:00 Coffee

87 Searching for a Cosmic Axion Background

Speaker: Conlon

Slides JC_StringPheno_13.pdf

88 TBA - Towards Blow-up Amplitudes - Toward one-loop corrections for the LVS

Speaker: Goodsell

Slides GOODSELL

89 Conference Dinner

Friday 19 July

90 SUSY Model Building

Speaker: Dudas

Slides stringpheno13.pdf

91 The Higgs mass from a String-Theoretic Perspective

Speaker: Hebecker

Slides Hebecker.pdf

10:30 Coffee

92 The Geography of the Heterotic Landscape

Speaker: Nilles

Slides 13StringPheno.pdf

93 Supersymmetric Hidden Sectors for Heterotic Standard Models

Speaker: Ovrut

Slides Hamburg2013.pdf

94 The Future of String Phenomenology

Speaker: Quevedo

Slides StringPheno2013.pdf

12:45 Lunch