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 […]
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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.
To learn how to attend, please subscribe here.
Talks will be posted on the Swampland Seminars YouTube channel. The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
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
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)
On renormalisation group induced moduli stabilisation and brane-antibrane inflation
Abstract: A proposal to use the renormalisation group to address moduli stabilisation in IIB string perturbation theory will be described. We revisit brane-antibrane inflation combining this proposal with non-linearly realised supersymmetry.
Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity
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 $h^{1,1}=0$
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 […]
4/18/2022 Swampland Seminar
Open mic Swampland Discussion Topic: Cobordism
Inflation and light Dark Matter constraints from the Swampland
Abstract: I will explore the interplay between Swampland conjectures and models of inflation and light Dark Matter. To that end, I will briefly review the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) and the related […]
The story of the information paradox
Swampland Seminar Speaker: Samir Mathur (Ohio State) Title: The story of the information paradox Abstract: In 1975 Hawking argued that black hole evaporation would lead to a loss of unitarity in quantum […]