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String Theory Seminar

We have weekly reunions on Tuesday starting at 1pm in the Seminar Room (117), 1st Floor, Mathematical Sciences building.

The meetings include discussions of recent papers, discussions with visitors, seminars etc.

The seminar schedule for the current term is:


Third term.

  • 30th April - Alon Faraggi (Liverpool), "Phenomenological implications of non-geometric heterotic-string vacua"
  • 7th May - Frederico Carta (Madrid), "Supersymmetry enhancement along RG flows"
  • 14th May - Pablo Soler (Heidelberg), "KKLT dS vacua in the Swampland Era"
  • 21th May - PhD Annual Talks,

               - Ben Percival , "Doublet-triplet splitting in fertile left-right symmetric heterotic string vacua"

               - Flavio Tonioni , "Constrained superfields in type IIb string phenomenology"

               - Martin Hurtado , "Towards Spinor-Vector duality in smooth heterotic compactifications"

               - Yizhou Gao, "TBA"

  • 29th May - PhD Annual Talks,

               - Jamie Rogers, "TBA"

               - Abdullah Ibrahim , "TBA"

               - Horia Nicolaescu , "TBA"

               - John Davies, "TBA"

  • 11th June - Giuseppe D'Appollonio (Cagliari & DAMTP), "Strings, high energies and curved spacetimes"
  • Second term.

  • 29th January - Inaki Garcia-Extebarria (Durham), "Dai-Freed anomalies in particle physics"
  • 5th February - Alon Faraggi (Liverpool) , "Towards machine learning in the classification of Z2xZ2 orbifolds"
  • 12th February - Timm Wrase (Vienna) , "dS vacua and the swampland"
  • 19th February - Giacomo Pope (Liverpool) , "From Static to Cosmological Solutions of N = 2 Supergravity"
  • 26th February - Richard Szabo (Edinburgh) , "Double Field Theory on Para-Hermitian Manifolds"
  • 3rd March - Chris Hull (Imperial) , "Non-geometric Calabi-Yau backgrounds in String Theory"
  • 12th March - Karim Benakli (LPTHE-Paris) , "N=2 supersymmetry for a more Standard Model-like Higgs at LHC"
  • 19th March - Mariana Grana (Saclay) , "A string theory landscape?"
  • 26th March - Claudia de Rham (Imperial) , "Remaining Positive"
  • 2nd April - Eleonora Di Valentino (Manchester) , "Unraveling the Hubble constant tension"
  • First term.

  • 2nd October - Viktor Matyas (Liverpool), "Holographic Entanglement Entropy"
  • 9th October - Andrei Constantin (Oxford), "Counting String Theory Standard Models"
  • 16th October - Radu Tatar (Liverpool), "Quantum Corrections and the de Sitter Swampland Conjecture"
  • 23rd October - Jakub Scholtz (Durham), -- cancelled
  • 30th October - Mark Goodsell (Paris), "Extracting and constraining scalar-only couplings in generic BSM theories"
  • 6th November - Fridrik Gautason (Leuven), "Holography for Super Yang-Mills Theories on Spheres"
  • 13th November - Seung-Joo Lee (CERN), "Tensionless Strings and Quantum Gravity Conjectures"
  • 20th November - David Andriot (CERN), "Classical de Sitter solutions and the swampland"
  • 27th November - Tommi Markkanen (Imperial), "Gravitational Generation of Dark Matter"
  • 4th December - Dan Israel (Paris), "Non-geometric Calabi-Yau backgrounds"

  • Archives of previous years can be found here.

     

    Theoretical Physics Student Seminar

    This is the seminar series run by the Theoretical Physics PhD students.

    Usual schedule: Meetings take place at 12pm on Fridays in Room 106, 1st Floor, Mathematical Sciences building.

    The seminar schedule for the curent term is:


    Second term.

  • 1st February - Benjamin Percival, ""
  • First term.

  • 19th October - Jack Pope, "An introduction to Black Hole Thermodynamics"
  • 26th October - Louis Gall, "Defining Spinors in Superalgebras"
  • 2nd November - Jamie Rogers, "Quiver Gauge Theories, their Vacua, and HyperKahler Cones"
  • 9th November - Horia Nicolaescu, "Charged Branes in Supergravity"
  • 16th November - Flavio Tonioni, "An Introduction to Type IIB Flux Compactifications"
  • 30th November - Ulserik Moldanazarova, "Effective Field Theory Framework for Dark Matter Searches"
  • 7th December - Abdullah Ibrahim, "Seiberg dualities in various dimensions"

  • Archives of previous years can be found here.

     

    Workshops @ Liverpool

    "String Inflation After Planck" workshop, Liverpool, September 7-9 2016


    "Meet Your Neighbour" Half Day Meeting, Liverpool, October 23 2013
    "String Phenomenology and Dynamical Vacuum Selection" workshop, Liverpool, March 27-29 2008
    "UKBSM 2007 - Annual Meeting of the UK BSM Community" workshop, Liverpool, March 29-30 2007