10:30 am VIA ZOOM
F-theory and the big picture of the string landscape - Washington (Wati) Taylor, MIT This talk will give an overview of new developments in which F-theory and related geometric considerations have shed light in recent years on the global set of string theory vacuum solutions. This geometric perspective combined with physics inputs have provided a systematic way of understanding the set of Calabi-Yau manifolds used to construct string vacua, and lead to new insights regarding gauge groups that arise generically in string vacua, and how the structure of the standard model and dark matter can naturally appear in thecontext of geometric string vacua in six and four space-time dimensions. This perspective also gives new insights into the constraints that quantum gravity places on gauge groups and matter representations, and the "swampland" of apparently consistent theories without a realization in string theory.
Event Type
Jun
24