1:30 pm MCP 201
A Landscape of Supersymmetric AdS Vacua.
The KKLT construction of metastable de sitter vacua requires as input the construction of a supersymmetric AdS vacuum located exponentially near to a conifold point in the moduli space of a Calabi-Yau. Such vacua, to be of phenomenological interest, should also have all moduli stabilized, to avoid the presence of hundreds of undesired light scalar fields. So far, models have been presented that meet either of these criteria- being located near to a conifold point or having all moduli stabilized- but not both. I will present the first examples that meet both criteria. Along the way, I will present other recent results- such as a systematic study of the statistics of supersymmetric AdS vacua away from conifold points and a novel analysis of isomorphisms between Calabi-Yau manifolds in the Kreuzer-Skarke list- that help paint a more complete picture of the landscape to which these vacua belong.