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. You can find the list of seminars for the current year below.
Second term
| 1st February | Hassan Firouzjahi (IPM, Tehran), "Cosmological constant problem on the horizon" |
| 8th February | Naomi Gendler (Cornell), "PQ Axiverse" |
| 22nd February | Steve Abel (Durham), "Understanding hierarchy problems in string theory" |
| 8th March | Maxime Médevielle (Liverpool), "Type-II Calabi-Yau compactifications in general spacetime signature" |
| 15th March | Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech), "An introduction to decomposition" |
| 22nd March | Shai Chester (Weizmann Institute), "Bootstrapping $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills on the conformal manifold" |
| 26th April | Martin Sloth (Copenhagen), "The Hubble tension and new physics at the eV scale: The path to New Early Dark Energy" |
| 3rd May | Pascal Anastasopoulos (Viena), "Emergent fields from hidden sectors" |
| 10th May | Alvaro Herraez (Saclay), "The Mysterious (asymptotic) Tadpole" |
| 24th May | Scott Melville (Cambridge), "Charting the Landscape of Cosmological EFTs" |
First term
| 12th October | Radu Tatar (Liverpool), |
| 19th October | Maxim Pospelov (Minneapolis), "Dark Matter Through Solar Reflection" |
| 26th October | Ignatios Antoniadis (Paris), "Challenges of an accelerating universe in string theory" |
| 2nd November | Ginevra Buratti (Madrid), "Dynamical tadpoles, stringy cobordism and the Swampland distance conjecture" |
| 9th November | Hannah Tillim (Oxford), "Axiverse Strings" |
| 16th November | Herve Partouche (Paris), "Wavefunction of the universe: Diffeomeorphism invariance and field redefinitions" |
| 23rd November | Joao Melo (Cambridge), "The Propagator Matrix Reloaded" |
| 30th November | Daniele Farotti (Surrey), "Supersymmetry Enhancement of Heterotic Horizons" |
| 7th December | Alon Faraggi (Liverpool), "Modular Maps" and BSM Phenomenology" |
Archives of previous years can be found here. You can also find our seminar series on the Inspire.
Student Seminars
This is the seminar series run by the PhD students.
Usual schedule: Meetings take place at 5pm on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room (117), 1st Floor, Mathematical Sciences building.
Second term
| 2nd March | Alonzo Diaz, "Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in string theory" |
| 9th March | Bruno Bento, "Giving a talk about stuff" |
| 16th March | Martin Hurtado, "$T^6/Z_2\times Z_2$ resolutions" |
| 23rd March | Marco Serra, "Supersymmetry Breaking in String Theory: a top-down approach" |
| 27th April | Horia Nicoleascu, "Inflationary quantum fluctuations and effective symmetry restoration" |
| 4th May | Joaquim Gomes "Curvature perturbations from thermal inflation and purpose of a talk" |
| 25th May | Maxime Médevielle "String Field Theory, Double Field Theory and the Double Copy" |
| 8th June | Viktor Matyas "Non-SUSY Heterotic Strings via Free Fermions and Orbifolds" |