School and International Workshop on String Phenomenology and String Cosmology 2016

24 Jul 2016, 08:00 → 30 Jul 2016, 18:00 Asia/Shanghai

Chengdu, China

The Short School and International Workshop on String Phenomenology and String Cosmology 2016 (SPSC2016) will be held during 24-30 July 2016 at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Sichuan University in Chengdu, P. R. China. We will have introductory lectures on string phenomenology and string cosmology, intended for graduate students and young researchers, as well as topic talks devoted to the latest progress in this area.

Time

• July 24 - 28: Introductory Lectures for the Short School (preSPSC)
• July 28 - 30: Topic Talks for the International Workshop (SPSC)

Venue

Lecture Hall of Kehuayuan Hotel, Sichuan University (Wangjiang Campus)

Host

• Center for Theoretical Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University
• Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

International Coordinators

• Ralph Blumenhagen (Max Planck Inst., Munich, Germany)
• Joseph Conlon (Oxford U., UK)
• Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn, USA)
• Liam McAllister (Cornell U., USA)
• Fernando Quevedo (Cambridge U., UK and ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
• Savdeep Sethi (Chicago U., USA)
• Gary Shiu ((Wisconsin U., Madison, USA and Hong Kong U. Sci. Tech., Hong Kong, China)
• Henry Tye (Cornell U., USA and Hong Kong U. Sci. Tech., Hong Kong, China)
• Ivonne Zavala (Swansea U., UK)

Local Organizing Committee

Tianjun LI, Xiao LIU, Bo NING, Dimitri POLYAKOV, Zheng SUN, Peng WANG, Haitang YANG.

Contact

• Center for Theoretical Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University, 29 Wangjiang Road, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, P. R. China.
• Email to < spsc2016_at_outlook.com > for inquiries.

Sunday, 24 July

08:30 → 09:45 Introduction to inflationary cosmology I

Speaker: Prof. Yungui Gong (Huazhong U. Sci. Tech.)

Slides 0724-1-Yungui-Gong.pdf

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 11:30 Introduction to superstrings and compactification I

Speaker: Dr Hiroaki Nakajima (Sichuan U.)

Slides 0724-2-Hiroaki-Nakajima.pdf

11:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Introduction to inflationary cosmology II

Speaker: Prof. Yungui Gong (Huazhong U. Sci. Tech.)

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Introduction to superstrings and compactification II

Speaker: Dr Hiroaki Nakajima (Sichuan U.)

Monday, 25 July

08:30 → 09:45 Inflation in string theory I

Speaker: Prof. Timm Wrase (TU Vienna, Austria)

notes 0725-1-Timm-Wrase-notes.pdf

Slides 0725-1-Timm-Wrase.pdf

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 11:30 Axions I

Speaker: Prof. Joseph Conlon (Oxford U., UK)

notes 0725-2-Joseph-Conlon-notes.pdf

11:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 F-theory for model building I

Speaker: Prof. Iñaki García-Etxebarria (MPI Munich, Germany)

notes 0725-3-Inaki-Garcia-Etxebarria.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Inflation in string theory II

Speaker: Prof. Timm Wrase (TU Vienna, Austria)

Tuesday, 26 July

08:30 → 09:45 F-theory for model building II

Speaker: Prof. Iñaki García-Etxebarria (MPI Munich, Germany)

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 11:30 Axions II

Speaker: Prof. Joseph Conlon (Oxford U., UK)

11:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:10 Opening Address

14:10 → 15:00 Linking dark matter to dark energy in a string theory scenario

Speaker: Prof. Henry Tye (Cornell U., USA & HKUST, Hong Kong, China)

Slides 0726-1-Henry-Tye.pdf

15:00 → 15:50 Searches for Axion-Like Particles with NGC1275: Observation of Spectral Modulations

Speaker: Prof. Joseph Conlon (Oxford U., UK)

Slides 0726-2-Joseph-Conlon.pdf

15:50 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 17:00 Global string embeddings for nilpotent Goldstino multiplet

Speaker: Prof. Iñaki García-Etxebarria (MPI Munich, Germany)

Slides 0726-3-Inaki-Garcia-Etxebarria.pdf

17:00 → 17:50 The weak gravity conjecture, black holes, and cosmology

Speaker: Prof. Gary Shiu (UW - Madison, USA & HKUST, Hong Kong, China)

Slides 0726-4-Gary-Shiu.pdf

17:50 → 18:00 Group Photo

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Wednesday, 27 July

08:30 → 09:45 D-brane model building and conformal field theory I

Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Honecker (Mainz U., Germany)

notes 0727-1-Gabriele-Honecker-notes.pdf

Slides 0727-1-Gabriele-Honecker.pdf

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 11:30 Moduli of heterotic string compactifications I

Speaker: Prof. Magdalena Larfors (Uppsala U., Sweden)

notes 0727-2-Magdalena-Larfors-notes.pdf

11:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Non-geometric string backgrounds and axion monodromy inflation I

Speaker: Prof. Erik Plauschinn (LMU Munich - ASC, Germany)

notes 0727-3-Erik-Plauschinn-notes.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Inflation in string theory 2 I

Speaker: Prof. Susha Parameswaran (Liverpool U., UK)

notes 0727-4-Susha-Parameswaran-notes.pdf

Thursday, 28 July

08:30 → 09:45 D-brane model building and conformal field theory II

Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Honecker (Mainz U., Germany)

09:45 → 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 → 11:30 Moduli of heterotic string compactifications II

Speaker: Prof. Magdalena Larfors (Uppsala U., Sweden)

11:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Non-geometric string backgrounds and axion monodromy inflation II

Speaker: Prof. Erik Plauschinn (LMU Munich - ASC, Germany)

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Inflation in string theory 2 II

Speaker: Prof. Susha Parameswaran (Liverpool U., UK)

Friday, 29 July

08:30 → 09:20 Type II model building at the crossroads between (astro)particle physics and moduli stabilization

Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Honecker (Mainz U., Germany)

Slides 0729-1-Gabriele-Honecker.pdf

09:20 → 10:10 Constrained multiplets in N=1 supergravity and their connection to string cosmology

Speaker: Prof. Timm Wrase (TU Vienna, Austria)

Slides 0729-2-Timm-Wrase.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:20 Hierarchies and inflation in the mirror quintic

Speaker: Prof. Ivoonne Zavala (Swansea U., UK)

Slides 0729-3-Ivonne-Zavala.pdf

11:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:50 Relating double-field theory to N=2 gauged supergravity

Speaker: Prof. Erik Plauschinn (LMU Munich - ASC, Germany)

Slides 0729-4-Erik-Plauschinn.pdf

14:50 → 15:40 Infinitesimal moduli of G2 holonomy manifolds with instanton bundles

Speaker: Prof. Magdalena Larfors (Uppsala U., Swede)

Slides 0729-5-Magdalena-Larfors.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:50 F-theory duality in multiply fibered Calabi-Yau

Speaker: Dr Xin Gao (Virginia Tech.)

Slides 0729-6-Xin-Gao.pdf

16:50 → 17:40 Classifying rank-1 d=4 N=2 superconformal field theories by Seiberg-Witten geometries

Speaker: Dr Yongchao Lu (Cincinati U.)

Slides 0729-7-Hongchao-Lu.pdf

17:40 → 17:50 Closing Remarks

Saturday, 30 July

08:30 → 17:00 Free Discussion