ASC school 2023: The Quantum Gravity Swampland and its consequences for the observable world

09.10.2023, 09:00 → 13.10.2023, 12:30 Europe/Berlin

B052 (ASC)

The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics at the LMU in Munich will host a school on “The Quantum Gravity Swampland and its consequences for the observable world” in the period October 9-13, 2023. We plan to have the school in presence, in accordance with the Corona rules then in force.

The school is primarily aimed at PhD students, but master students or more senior researchers are very welcome to apply as well. It will cover introductory lectures to the swampland program as well as more advanced topics on formal developments and phenomenological applications to particle physics and cosmology.

Speakers:

• Niccolo Cribiori (MPP Munich)
• Markus Dierigl (LMU Munich)
• Gia Dvali (LMU Munich)
• Mariana Graña (IPhT, Saclay)
• Thomas Grimm (Utrecht University)
• Eran Palti (Ben Gurion University)
• Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
• Irene Valenzuela (IFT Madrid & CERN)
• Timo Weigand (Hamburg University)
• Jochen Weller (LMU Munich)

Organizers:

Michael Haack and Dieter Lüst

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Montag, 9. Oktober

1 An introduction to the Swampland (and its interplay with holography), part 1

Sprecher: Eran Palti

10:30 Coffee break

2 Swampland Implications for Particle Physics, part 1

Sprecher: Irene Valenzuela

12:30 Lunch break

3 An introduction to the Swampland (and its interplay with holography), part 2

Sprecher: Eran Palti

16:00 Coffee break

4 The string theory landscape, part 1

Sprecher: Mariana Graña

Dienstag, 10. Oktober

5 Swampland and Cosmological Observations

Sprecher: Jochen Weller

10:30 Coffee break

6 The string theory landscape, part 2

Sprecher: Mariana Graña

12:30 Lunch break

14:30 Free afternoon

19:00 School Dinner

Mittwoch, 11. Oktober

7 Distance Conjecture and the Species Scale

Sprecher: Cumrun Vafa

10:30 Coffee break

8 Swampland Implications for Particle Physics, part 2

Sprecher: Irene Valenzuela

12:30 Lunch Break

9 Swamplandish predictions for Cosmology

Sprecher: Cumrun Vafa

16:00 Coffee break

10 Cobordism Defects in String Theory

Sprecher: Markus Dierigl

Donnerstag, 12. Oktober

11 Finiteness, Complexity, and the Swampland, part 1

Sprecher: Thomas Grimm

10:30 Coffee break

12 Emergent Strings, the Weak Gravity Conjecture and their imprint in geometry, part 1

Sprecher: Timo Weigand

12:30 Lunch break

13 S-matrix implications for fundamental physics and cosmology

Sprecher: Gia Dvali

16:00 Coffee break

14 An introduction to the species scale in quantum gravity and string theory

Sprecher: Niccolo Cribiori

Freitag, 13. Oktober

15 Emergent Strings, the Weak Gravity Conjecture and their imprint in geometry, part 2

Sprecher: Timo Weigand

10:30 Coffee break

16 Finiteness, Complexity, and the Swampland, part 2

Sprecher: Thomas Grimm