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.

  • 29th September - Irene Valenzuela (Harvard) , "Merging Swampland Conjectures using strings and membranes"

  • 22nd September - Sven Krippendorf (Munich) , "Symmetries in Machine Learning and Fundamental Physics"

  • 15th September - Francesco Muia (Desy) , "Bubbles Before and After Inflation"

  • 8th September - Timm Wrase (Vienna and Lehigh) , "The (A)dS swampland conjectures"

  • 1st September - Hiroshi Itoyama (Osaka) , "Stability, enhanced gauge symmetry and suppressed cosmological constant in 9D heterotic interpolating models"

  • 11th August - Saurya Das (Lethbridge) , "On the quantum origin of Lambda"

  • 4th August - Dionysios Anninos (King's College, London) , "Some comments on de Sitter horizons"

  • 28th July - John Stout (Amsterdam) , "Weak Gravity without Instantons"

  • 21st July - Stefan Groot-Nibbelink (Rotterdam) , "Tension between a vanishing cosmological constant and non-supersymmetric heterotic orbifolds"

  • 14th July - Ioannis Florakis (Ioannina) , "Quantum corrections in non-supersymmetric heterotic strings"

  • 7th July - Steve Abel (Durham) , "Aspects of non-supersymmetric strings and their relation to worldline theories"

  • 23rd June - Cody Long (Cornell) , "Constraints on Standard Model Constructions in F-theory"

  • 16th June - Mirian Tsulaia (Okinawa) , "Calculation of gauge thresholds in heterotic compactifications"

  • 12th May - Jim Halverson (North Eastern) , "Statistical Predictions in String Theory and Deep Generative Models"

    • Second term.

  • 11th February - Severin Bunk (Hamburg) , "tba"

  • 18th February - Silvia Nagy (Nottingham) , "tba"

  • 21st April - Thomas Van Riet (Leuven) , "tba"

    • First term.

  • 1st October - Ander Retolaza (Saclay), ""

  • 15th October - Cyril Lagger (Liverpool), ""

  • 22nd October - Severin Lust (Saclay), ""

  • 29th October - Carlos Shahazi (Hamburg), ""

  • 5th November - Julius Grimminger (Imperial), ""

  • 14th November -- note special day Thursday! - Ulf Lindstrom (Uppsala) , ""

  • 19th November - Dibya Chakraborty (Leon), ""

  • 26th November - Ruben Monten (Saclay) , ""

  • 28th November - Barkla Lecture with Didier Queloz , ""

  • 5th December (note special day) - Ulf Lindstrom (Uppsala) , "Generalized Geometry Sigma models"
    • 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