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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.

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  • 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 […]

  • Holomorphic CFTs and topological modular forms

    Abstract: The theory of topological modular forms leads to many interesting constraints and predictions for two-dimensional quantum field theories, and some of them might have interesting implications for the swampland program. In […]

  • 4d strings at strong coupling

    Virtual

    Speakers: Fernando Marchesano (UAM-CSIC, Madrid)  and Max Wiesner (Harvard CMSA) Title: 4d strings at strong coupling As usual, the format will be 45 min talk + 30 min discussion, to encourage participation from the […]

  • 3/21/2022 – Swampland Seminar

    Open Mic Discussion Topic: Entropy bounds (species bound, Bekenstein bound, CKN bound, and the like)

  • Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity

    Virtual

    Swampland Seminar Speakers: Simon Caron-Huot (McGill University) and Julio Parra (Caltech) Title: Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity Abstract: We study constraints from causality and unitarity on 2→2 graviton scattering in four-dimensional weakly-coupled effective field […]

  • Type IIB flux compactifications with $h^{1,1}=0$

    Virtual

    Abstract: We revisit type IIB flux compactification that are mirror dual to type IIA on rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds. We find a variety of interesting new solutions, like fully stabilized Minkowski vacua […]