Theoretical Tests of the Landscape

Date: 
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 9:00am to Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 1:00pm
Location: 

LGRT 1033

This workshop will highlight recent progress in understanding the landscape of quantum gravities, as well as defining the important open questions and developing connections with different areas of particle theory. The themes of the program will mimic the various approaches used to tackle this problem from top-down to bottom-up constructions as well as relating constraints from cosmology, holography and generalized symmetry structures.

Co-organizers:
Ben Heidenreich (UMass Amherst)
Matteo Lotito (Seoul National University)
Naomi Gendler (Cornell University)
Matthew Reece (Harvard University)
John Stout (Harvard University)

Schedule

2023-04-17
Monday, April 17
9:00am
Monday, April 17
9:15am
Monday, April 17
9:30am
Convex Hulls and the Swampland

Irene Valenzuela

CERN / IFT Madrid

Monday, April 17
10:30am
Monday, April 17
11:00am
Discussion: Landscape viewed from the bottom up

John Stout & Houri Tarazi

Harvard

Monday, April 17
1:00pm
Monday, April 17
2:30pm
Monday, April 17
3:30pm
Monday, April 17
4:00pm
Discussion: scale separation and cosmology

Liam McAllister & Timm Wrase

Cornell University & Lehigh University

Monday, April 17
6:30pm
2023-04-18
Tuesday, April 18
9:00am
Tuesday, April 18
9:30am
Tuesday, April 18
10:30am
Tuesday, April 18
11:00am
Discussion: Holography, Black Holes and Amplitudes

Netta Engelhardt & Julio Parra Martinez

MIT & Caltech

Tuesday, April 18
1:00pm
Tuesday, April 18
2:30pm
Tuesday, April 18
3:30pm
Tuesday, April 18
4:00pm
Discussion: landscape viewed from the top-down

Jim Halverson & Patrick Jefferson

Northeastern University & MIT

2023-04-19
Wednesday, April 19
9:00am
Wednesday, April 19
9:30am
Generalised symmetries and string theory

Iñaki Garcia Etxebarria

Durham University

Wednesday, April 19
10:30am
Wednesday, April 19
11:00am
Discussion: generalized symmetries and connections to particle physics

Seth Koren & Jake McNamara

University of Chicago & Caltech

Wednesday, April 19
1:00pm