Name: String Phenomenology 2024
Start: 2024-06-24T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-28T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano - Padova (Italy)

String Phenomenology 2024

from Monday 24 June 2024 (08:30) to Friday 28 June 2024 (18:00)

Monday 24 June 2024

08:30 Welcome & registration
Welcome & registration
08:30 - 08:45
Room: Auditorium

08:45 Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Auditorium
09:00 Swampland and Dark Relations - Dieter Lüst
Swampland and Dark Relations
- Dieter Lüst
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium
09:30 Open Strings and Heterotic Instantons - Jacob Leedom
Open Strings and Heterotic Instantons
- Jacob Leedom
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00 Percolating Cosmic String Networks from Kination - Joseph Conlon
Percolating Cosmic String Networks from Kination
- Joseph Conlon
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Agorà - Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano
11:00 The Structure of the Flux Landscape – Unlimited Edition - Thomas Grimm
The Structure of the Flux Landscape – Unlimited Edition
- Thomas Grimm
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30 Stop at Nothing - Jakob Moritz
Stop at Nothing
- Jakob Moritz
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium
12:00 Fluxes, Tadpoles and Singularities - Andreas Braun
Fluxes, Tadpoles and Singularities
- Andreas Braun
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30 Inference, Towers, and Stasis - Jim Halverson
Inference, Towers, and Stasis
- Jim Halverson
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
15:00 New nonrenormalisation theorems in string theory - Steven Abel
New nonrenormalisation theorems in string theory
- Steven Abel
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30 Candidate de Sitter vacua: Construction - Andreas Schachner
Candidate de Sitter vacua: Construction
- Andreas Schachner
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Agorà - Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano
16:30 Euclidean wormholes and String Phenomenology - Gary Shiu
Euclidean wormholes and String Phenomenology
- Gary Shiu
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium
17:00 Massive IIA vacua with dynamical open strings - Giuseppe Dibitetto
Massive IIA vacua with dynamical open strings
- Giuseppe Dibitetto
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium
17:30 Quintessence, the cosmological constant, and the weak gravity conjecture - Francisco Gil Pedro
Quintessence, the cosmological constant, and the weak gravity conjecture
- Francisco Gil Pedro
17:30 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium
18:15 Reception
Reception
18:15 - 20:30
Room: Agorà - Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano
Tuesday 25 June 2024
09:00 Reflections on the Dark Dimension - Cumrun Vafa
Reflections on the Dark Dimension
- Cumrun Vafa
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium
09:30 A Minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture - Timo Weigand
A Minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture
- Timo Weigand
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00 A Bumpy Ride: Distances Beyond Minkowski Space - Irene Valenzuela
A Bumpy Ride: Distances Beyond Minkowski Space
- Irene Valenzuela
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Agorà - Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano
11:00 On 4D dS Solutions of 6D Supergravity and String Theory - Fernando Quevedo
On 4D dS Solutions of 6D Supergravity and String Theory
- Fernando Quevedo
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30 Candidate de Sitter Vacua: Corrections - Liam McAllister
Candidate de Sitter Vacua: Corrections
- Liam McAllister
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium
12:00 Higher Symmetry in Particle Physics - Clay Cordova
Higher Symmetry in Particle Physics
- Clay Cordova
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30 A1
A1
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula P150
Contributions

14:30 Black hole thermodynamics, tower of states, and the emergent string conjecture - Carmine Montella

14:45 A black hole-tower correspondence and the origin of species thermodynamics - Alvaro Herraez

15:00 On the Origin of Species Thermodynamics - Joaquin Masias

15:15 Cosmological phase transitions and the swampland - Gerben Venken

15:30 Cosmological Chameleons, String Theory and the Swampland - Ignacio Ruiz

15:45 Black Hole Probes of Moduli Space and Stabilization - Matilda Delgado
B1
B1
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula P100
Contributions

14:30 Non-perturbative production of axions in string inflation - Nicole Righi

14:45 (A)dS solutions from type II Scherk-Schwarz toroidal orbifold - Marco Serra

15:00 Conditions for O-plane unsmearing from second-order perturbation theory - Maxim Emelin

15:15 News on the anti-D3-brane uplift - Simon Schreyer

15:30 Moduli Stabilization in Landau-Ginzburg Orientifold Models. - Muthusamy Rajaguru

15:45 Flux Landscape with Enhanced Symmetry Not on SL(2,ℤ) Elliptic Points - Takafumi Kai
C1
C1
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula P3
Contributions

14:30 Tensionless Strings Limits in 4d Conformal Manifolds - José Calderón Infante

14:45 Extremal Correlators and OPE coefficients in Argyres-Douglas Theories - Andrea Cipriani

15:00 Perturbations in horizonless geometries, Quasi Normal modes, Echoes and Tidal deformations - Giorgio Di Russo

15:15 High-Energy Fixed-Angle Meson Scattering and Holographic QCD Strings - Bartosz Pyszkowski

15:30 Minimalism in N = 2 moduli spaces from orbifold constructions - Guoen Nian

15:45 Calabi-Yau Threefold Flops as Quiver Varieties from Monopole Deformations - Marina Moleti
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 A2
A2
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula P150
Contributions

16:30 Dynamical Cobordism and Codimension-2 End-of-the-world Branes - Andriana Makridou

16:45 The Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture, moduli fields and gauged supergravity - Gabriele Casagrande

17:00 Exotic supergravities and the Swampland - Michelangelo Tartaglia

17:15 Cobordism and cosmology - Bjoern Friedrich

17:30 Cobordism and the half-spin group - Christian Kneißl

17:45 Dynamical Cobordism in AdS/CFT - Jesús Huertas
B2
B2
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula P100
Contributions

16:30 Massive spin-2 particles and the swampland - Joan Quirant

16:45 Flat manifolds, fluxes & Casimir energies -- a recipe for deSitter? - Bruno Bento

17:00 Decay of Kaluza-Klein Vacuum via Singular Instanton - Sohei Tsukahara

17:15 Higher-curvature gravities, EFTs and the Swampland - Ángel Jesús Murcia Gil

17:30 Exploring the AdS conjecture: a positive metric over DGKT vacua - Nicolò Petri

17:45 Holography for KKLT: Anatomy of a Flow - Yixuan Li
C2
C2
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula P3
Contributions

16:30 New Non-SUSY Tachyon-Free Rigid Strings - Houri Christina Tarazi

16:45 Uncovering the Non-supersymmetric Heterotic String Landscape - Bernardo Fraiman

17:00 Neural Network Learning and Quantum Gravity - Stefano Lanza

17:15 Brane solutions in non-supersymmetric strings - Salvatore Raucci

17:30 Rigid Orientifold Vacua in 6d with Broken SUSY - Giorgio Leone

17:45 Chiral anomalies and their implications in 10d non-supersymmetric sp(16) gauge theories. - Vittorio Larotonda
Wednesday 26 June 2024
09:00 Generalized Global Symmetries and Nested Symmetry Theories - Mirjam Cvetič
Generalized Global Symmetries and Nested Symmetry Theories
- Mirjam Cvetič
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium
09:30 Natural Standard Model-like theories from E_7 flux breaking in F-theory: features and challenges - Washington Taylor
Natural Standard Model-like theories from E_7 flux breaking in F-theory: features and challenges
- Washington Taylor
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00 Machine-learning in Calabi-Yau geometry - Magdalena Larfors
Machine-learning in Calabi-Yau geometry
- Magdalena Larfors
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Agorà - Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano
11:00 A new SUSY breaking orientifold of type IIB string - Emilian Dudas
A new SUSY breaking orientifold of type IIB string
- Emilian Dudas
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30 Loop Blow-up Inflation - Arthur Hebecker
Loop Blow-up Inflation
- Arthur Hebecker
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium
12:00 An axion cosmology scenario - Matthew Reece
An axion cosmology scenario
- Matthew Reece
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30 Celestial Topology, Symmetry Theories, and Non-SUSY D3-Brane CFTs - Jonathan Heckman
Celestial Topology, Symmetry Theories, and Non-SUSY D3-Brane CFTs
- Jonathan Heckman
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
15:00 Cosmological & topological aspects of nonsupersymmetric strings - Miguel Montero
Cosmological & topological aspects of nonsupersymmetric strings
- Miguel Montero
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium

16:00 Free afternoon
Free afternoon
16:00 - 19:30

20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Caffè Pedrocchi
Thursday 27 June 2024
09:00 Reflections on the Emergence Proposal - Ralph Blumenhagen
Reflections on the Emergence Proposal
- Ralph Blumenhagen
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium
09:30 Yukawas and neutrinos at infinite distance - Fernando Marchesano
Yukawas and neutrinos at infinite distance
- Fernando Marchesano
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00 Can you hear the Planck mass? - Alessandro Tomasiello
Can you hear the Planck mass?
- Alessandro Tomasiello
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Agorà - Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano
11:00 The Tadpole Conjecture beyond geometry - Mariana Graña
The Tadpole Conjecture beyond geometry
- Mariana Graña
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30 Strings In and Out of Equilibrium & Cosmology - Anshuman Maharana
Strings In and Out of Equilibrium & Cosmology
- Anshuman Maharana
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium
12:00 On Gauge Sector of F-theory: Bounds and Limits - Seung-Joo Lee
On Gauge Sector of F-theory: Bounds and Limits
- Seung-Joo Lee
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30 A3
A3
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula P150
Contributions

14:30 Emergent geometry in string theory - Ivano Basile

14:45 Emergence of R^4 terms in M-theory - Antonia Paraskevopoulou

15:00 Swampland Constraints on small Dirac Neutrino Yukawa Couplings - Gonzalo F. Casas

15:15 Boundaries and geodesics in moduli spaces - Veronica Collazuol

15:30 A Distance Conjecture for Branes - Muldrow Etheredge

15:45 End of The World brane networks for infinite distance limits in CY moduli space - Roberta Angius
B3
B3
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula P100
Contributions

14:30 String Theory and the First Half of the Universe - Fien Apers

14:45 String Theory (and Gravitational Waves) from the First Half of the Universe - Filippo Revello

15:00 Gravitational Axiverse Spectroscopy - Margherita Putti

15:15 Loop Blow-Up Inflation: a novel way to inflate with the Kähler moduli - Luca Brunelli

15:30 Realistic Brane-Antibrane Inflation - Mario Ramos Hamud

15:45 Measuring the string scale with gravitational waves - Gonzalo Villa
C3
C3
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula P3
Contributions

14:30 Geometry of Type IIA compactifications with (non-)geometric fluxes - David Prieto

14:45 On the landscape of 6d supergravities - Gregory Loges

15:00 On a new democratic formulation of type 2B superstring theory - Matteo Zatti

15:15 String islands and discrete theta angles - Hector Parra De Freitas

15:30 On M-theory and string flux vacua in three dimensions - Matteo Morittu

15:45 New families of scale separated vacua - Thibaut Coudarchet
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 A4
A4
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula P150
Contributions

16:30 The Minimal Weak Gravity Conjecture - Alessandro Mininno

16:45 M-theoretic Emergence - Aleksandar Gligovic

17:00 EFT strings and the Convex Hull Distance Conjecture - Alessandra Grieco

17:15 On the moduli space curvature at infinity - Lorenzo Paoloni

17:30 Asymptotic curvature, SCFTs and LSTs - Luca Melotti

17:45 Topology change and non-geometry at infinite distance - Thomas Raml
B4
B4
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula P100
Contributions

16:30 Dynamics of Inspiraling Dark Energy - Lilia Anguelova

16:45 To curve, or not to curve: Observational unviability of curvature-assisted accelerated expansion - Yashar Akrami

17:00 Analytic bounds on asymptotic cosmologies - Flavio Tonioni

17:15 Charged Nariai black holes on the dark bubble - Vincent Van Hemelryck

17:30 Cosmological Bouncing solutions in non perturbative String Theory - Eliseo Pavone

17:45 Dark Energy with a Little Help from its Friends - Joaquim M. Gomes
C4
C4
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Aula P3
Contributions

16:30 Bounds and Dualities of Type-II Little String Theories - Florent Baume

16:45 Efficiency in F-Theory: FTheoryTools - Martin Bies

17:00 Higgsing on Symmetric Matter in F-theory - Andrew Turner

17:15 Computation of Quark Masses in String Theory - Cristofero Fraser-Taliente

17:30 Exploring the flavour symmetries of heterotic line bundle sum models - Lucas Tsun Yin Leung

17:45 Physical Yukawa Couplings in Heterotic String Compactifications - Justin Tan
Friday 28 June 2024
09:00 Surprises from non-supersymmetric strings - Augusto Sagnotti
Surprises from non-supersymmetric strings
- Augusto Sagnotti
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium
09:30 Heterotic asymmetric orbifolds revisited - Anamaria Font
Heterotic asymmetric orbifolds revisited
- Anamaria Font
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium
10:00 Asymptotic Acceleration in Light of the Landscape and the Stars - Susha Parameswaran
Asymptotic Acceleration in Light of the Landscape and the Stars
- Susha Parameswaran
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Agorà - Centro Culturale Altinate - San Gaetano
11:00 Towards string perturbation theory in Ramond backgrounds - Manki Kim
Towards string perturbation theory in Ramond backgrounds
- Manki Kim
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium
11:30 Conifold Transitions and New N=1 Dualities - Lara Anderson
Conifold Transitions and New N=1 Dualities
- Lara Anderson
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium
12:00 Flux vacua of the mirror octic - Erik Plauschinn
Flux vacua of the mirror octic
- Erik Plauschinn
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30 Non-Invertible Symmetries on the Worldsheet - Jacob McNamara
Non-Invertible Symmetries on the Worldsheet
- Jacob McNamara
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
15:00 The scale of many devices - Niccolò Cribiori
The scale of many devices
- Niccolò Cribiori
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30 Spectator-Verse Echoes - Alexander Westphal
Spectator-Verse Echoes
- Alexander Westphal
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium

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