Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events During the Week of April 16th through April 23rd, 2017
Monday, April 17th, 2017
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
- Ubiquity of non-geometry in heterotic string compactifications
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Stefano Massai, University of Chicago
- Abstract: I will address the problem of classifying supersymmetric string compactifications in regions of moduli space where the supergravity approximation breaks down. I will show evidence that, in the heterotic string, quantum effects generically turns a Calabi-Yau manifold into a T-fold, a non-geometric space defined by T-duality transition functions. I will describe a non-geometric version of ADE singularities, and show a full classification of the six-dimensional super-conformal field theories that describe the low energy physics on such defects.
Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
- No events scheduled
Thursday, April 20th, 2017
- No events scheduled
Friday, April 21st, 2017
- No events scheduled