Swampland Seminar Series
During the 2021-22 academic year, the CMSA will be co-hosting a seminar on Swampland, with the Harvard Physics Department, organized by Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa, Irene Valenzuela. This seminar is […]
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During the 2022-23 academic year, the CMSA will host a seminar on Swampland, organized by Max Wiesner and Cumrun Vafa. This seminar will take place biweekly on Mondays at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Boston time).
The meetings will take place in Room G10 at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 and virtually via Zoom.
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Talks will be posted on the Swampland Seminars YouTube channel. The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
Decoding Divergent Distances
Speaker: John Stout, Harvard University Title: Decoding Divergent Distances Abstract: Motivated by a relationship between the Zamolodchikov and NLSM metrics to the so-called quantum information metric, I will discuss recent work […]
Small Cosmological Constants in String Theory
Abstract: We construct supersymmetric AdS4 vacua of type IIB string theory in compactifications on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces. We first find explicit orientifolds and quantized fluxes for which the […]
Convexity of Charged Operators in CFTs and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Abstract: In this talk I will introduce a particular formulation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in AdS space in terms of the self-binding energy of a particle. The holographic CFT dual […]
The Festina Lente Bound
Abstract: I will explain what the Festina Lente bound means and where it comes from. Then I discuss its possible implications for phenomenology, both top-down and bottom-up.
Exploring the Holographic Swampland
Abstract: I describe our work looking at `traditional’ scenarios of moduli stabilisation from a holographic perspective. This reveals some interesting structure that is not apparent from the top-down perspective. For […]
Bubble instability of mIIA on AdS_4 x S^6
Speaker: Pieter Bomans, Princeton Title: Bubble instability of mIIA on AdS_4 x S^6 Abstract: Recently, a set of non-supersymmetric AdS_4 vacua of massive type IIA string theory has been constructed. […]
11/15/2021 – Swampland Seminar
This week’s seminar will be an open mic discussion which will be led by Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS), and by Gary Shiu (UW-Madison), and the topic will be “Swampland constraints, Unitarity and Causality”. They will start with […]
Taming the Landscape
Abstract: In this talk I will introduce a generalized notion of finiteness that provides a structural principle for the set of effective theories that can be consistently coupled to quantum gravity. More concretely, I […]
Scale separated AdS vacua?
Abstract: In this talk I will review massive type IIA flux compactifications that seem to give rise to infinite families of supersymmetric 4d AdS vacua. These vacua provide an interesting testing […]
Extremal Black Hole Corrections from Iyer-Wald
Abstract: Extremal black holes play a key role in our understanding of various swampland conjectures and in particular the WGC. The mild form of the WGC states that higher-derivative corrections […]