String phenomenology 2012

Workshop theme

There exist two Standard Models in physics both of which are known to be inadequate.

The Standard Model of particle physics is accommodated but not explained by the formalism of the quantum field theory. A deeper theoretical toolkit is needed to understand inter alia the quantum instability in the Higgs field, the apparent unification of gauge couplings at high energies, the presence of multiple generations and the hierarchical structure of fermionic masses.

The Standard Model of cosmology provides a beautiful fit to precision data but is built around the idea of inflation, with no detailed microscopic understanding of the physics responsible for inflation. Cosmology furthermore tells us that a quarter of the universe's energy density is in an unknown form of dark matter.

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String theory is a consistent theory of quantum gravity and provides a candidate theory of fundamental interactions. String phenomenology is the branch of string theory that aims to connect this subject to particle physics and cosmology. The ultraviolet consistency of string theory motivates new ideas for low energy physics and provides a rich structure of constraints on low energy theories, going beyond the requirements of low energy effective field theory.

String Pheno 2012 will be the 11th annual String Phenomenology conference, following on from the successful 2011 conferences in Madison, Wisconsin. It also marks ten years since the original String Phenomenology conference in Oxford in 2002. The conference brings together researchers aiming to connect fundamental and observable physics, through the study of string compactifications, effective actions, supersymmetry breaking, model building, Standard Model constructions, cosmology and inflation.

We hope research will be stimulated by the results from the LHC and actively encourage younger researchers to apply. Financial support for younger researchers may be available subject to funding.

Applications for this workshop are now closed

Timetable

Monday 25th June 2012
09:00 to 09:30	Registration	No Room Required
09:30 to 09:35	Welcome	Room 1
09:35 to 10:10	Ben Allanach University of Cambridge Phenomenological Targets for String Model Builders	Room 1
10:10 to 10:45	Generic String/M theory Predictions for Particle Physics and Dark Matter	Room 1
10:45 to 11:20	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:20 to 11:55	Kiwoon Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Cosmological moduli problem and double thermal inflation in large volume scenario	Room 1
11:55 to 12:30	David Berenstein University of California, Santa Barbara Open string axions and the flavor problem	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:35	Michele Cicoli Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Cosmology and Moduli Stabilisation for Chiral Global Models	Room 1
14:35 to 15:10	Mark Goodsell CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research Looking for the LARGE volume axiverse	Room 1
15:10 to 15:45	Javier Redondo Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Weakly interacting slim particles in astrophysics, cosmology and the laboratory	Room 1
15:45 to 16:20	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:20 to 16:55	Dieter Luest Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Non-commutative/non-associative geometry and effective actions of non-geometric string backgrounds	Room 1
16:55 to 17:30	Ralph Blumenhagen Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Strings in Non-geometric Backgrounds	Room 1
17:30 to 18:45	Drinks Reception	No Room Required
18:45 to 19:15	Dinner for Residents at Fitzwilliam & Churchill Colleges	No Room Required

Tuesday 26th June 2012
09:00 to 09:35	Stuart Raby Ohio State University SU(6) orbifold GUT on M4 x RP2 : Gauge - Higgs unification	Room 1
09:35 to 10:10	Michael Ratz Technische Universität München Supersymmetric unification and R symmetries	Room 1
10:10 to 10:45	Peter Nilles Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn The Zip Code of Quarks, Leptons and Higgs Bosons	Room 1
10:45 to 11:20	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:20 to 11:55	Brent Nelson Northeastern University An Algorithmic Method for Identifying Swiss Cheese Manifolds	Room 1
11:55 to 12:30	Gordon Kane University of Michigan Compactified string/M theory prediction of the Higgs boson mass and properties.	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:15	Yoske Sumitomo Hong Kong University of Science and Technology A Stringy Mechanism for A Small Cosmological Constant	Room 2
14:00 to 14:15	David Andriot Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Non-geometric fluxes in higher dimensions: I	Room 1
14:15 to 14:30	Nobuyoshi Ohta Kindai University Accelerating Universes in String Theory via Field Redefinition	Room 2
14:15 to 14:30	Peter Patalong Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Non-geometric fluxes in higher dimensions: II	Room 1
14:30 to 14:45	Seok Kim Seoul National University N-flation and No-boundary measure	Room 2
14:30 to 14:45	Paul Smyth Spontaneous Partial Supersymmetry Breaking	Room 1
14:45 to 15:00	Break	No Room Required
15:00 to 15:15	Erik Plauschinn Universiteit Utrecht Bianchi identities for non-geometric fluxes from Palatini-Lovelock-Cartan gravity	Room 1
15:00 to 15:15	Markus Rummel Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg De Sitter vacua in type IIB / F-theory by Kahler uplifting	Room 2
15:15 to 15:30	Krzysztof Turzynski Uniwersytet Warszawski Multi-field inflationary trajectories with a fast-turn feature	Room 2
15:15 to 15:30	Kimyeong Lee Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) Heterotic bundles on toric Calabi-Yau manifolds	Room 1
15:30 to 15:45	Ivonne Zavala Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Lifshitz Solutions in String Theory	Room 2
15:30 to 15:45	Michael Klaput University of Oxford Bundles over Nearly-Kahler Homogeneous Spaces in Heterotic String Theory with Flux	Room 1
15:45 to 16:15	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:15 to 16:30	Sebastian Kraus Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Fluxbrane Inflation	Room 1
16:15 to 16:30	Mahdi Torabian Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics On Asymptotically de Sitter Space: Entropy & Moduli Dynamics	Room 2
16:30 to 16:45	Paulo Moniz Universidade da Beira Interior (New) Borders for Quantum Cosmology	Room 1
16:30 to 16:45	William Walters University of Liverpool SO(10) Resolutions in F-theory	Room 2
16:45 to 17:00	Max Kerstan Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Fluxed M5-instantons in F-theory	Room 2
16:45 to 17:00	Danielle Wills University of Durham Stringy Origins of Cosmic Structure: The D-brane vector curvaton	Room 1
17:00 to 17:15	Break	No Room Required
17:15 to 17:30	Paul McGuirk Cornell University Hidden-sector current-current correlators in holographic gauge mediation	Room 2
17:15 to 17:30	Christoph Lüdeling Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Anomalies and Remnant Symmetries in Heterotic Constructions	Room 1
17:30 to 17:45	One-Loop Calculation of the Oblique S Parameter in Higgsless Electroweak Models	Room 2
17:30 to 17:45	Raffaele Savelli Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Flux Quantization in F-theory and Freed-Witten Anomaly	Room 1
17:45 to 18:00	Dhagash Mehta Syracuse University String--derived models and light U(1) embeddings	Room 2
17:45 to 18:00	Eirik Svanes University of Oxford Moduli Stabilisation of Heterotic String Theory with Flux	Room 1
18:00 to 18:15	Dhagash Mehta Syracuse University Numerical Algebraic Geometry: A New Perspective on String and Gauge Theories	Room 1
18:45 to 19:15	Dinner for Residents at Fitzwilliam & Churchill Colleges	No Room Required

Wednesday 27th June 2012
09:00 to 09:35	Gary Shiu University of Wisconsin-Madison Searching for de Sitter vacua in String Theory	Room 1
09:35 to 10:10	Mariana Graña CEA/Saclay Anti-branes in Klebanov-Strassler: to be or not to be?	Room 1
10:10 to 10:45	Liam McAllister Cornell University The Wasteland of Random Supergravities	Room 1
10:45 to 11:20	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:20 to 11:55	Alexander Westphal Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Tensor modes on the string theory landscape	Room 1
11:55 to 12:30	Ignatios Antoniadis CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research String mass hierarchies and experimental predictions	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:35	James Gray Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Calabi-Yau and Non-Calabi-Yau backgrounds for heterotic phenomenology	Room 1
14:35 to 15:10	Lara Anderson Harvard University Vector Bundles and Moduli Stabilization in Heterotic Theories	Room 1
15:10 to 15:45	Cumrun Vafa Harvard University Reflections on F-theory Phenomenology	Room 1
15:45 to 16:15	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:15 to 16:30	Diederik Roest Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Conifold's Competing Condensates	Room 2
16:15 to 16:30	Piyush Kumar Columbia University Mixed Wino-Axion Dark Matter in String/M Theory and the 130 GeV gamma-line "Signal"	Room 1
16:30 to 16:45	Scott Watson Syracuse University How UV sensitive is inflation?	Room 1
16:30 to 16:45	Andreas Deser Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Quasi- Poisson structures, Courant algebroids and Bianchi identities for non-geometric fluxes	Room 2
16:45 to 17:00	James Halverson University of Pennsylvania Moduli Dependence of M5-instantons in F-theory	Room 2
16:45 to 17:00	Ran Lu University of Michigan Collider Phenomenology of String/M Theory	Room 1
17:00 to 17:15	Break	No Room Required
17:15 to 17:30	Rhys Davies University of Oxford Dirac gauginos and unification in F-theory	Room 1
17:15 to 17:30	Gerald Cleaver Baylor University Systematic Investigations of the Heterotic String Landscape	Room 2
17:30 to 17:45	Benjamin Jurke Northeastern University Scanning for Swiss Cheese geometries	Room 2
17:30 to 17:45	Shaaban Khalil Zewail City of Science and Technology TeV scale SUSY B-L	Room 1
17:45 to 18:00	Ben Heidenreich Cornell University Orientifolds and new N=1 Dualities	Room 2
17:45 to 18:00	Jose A Ruiz Cembranos Universidad Complutense de Madrid p-adic Strings at Finite Temperature	Room 1
18:45 to 19:15	Dinner for Residents at Fitzwilliam & Churchill Colleges	No Room Required

Thursday 28th June 2012
09:00 to 09:35	Mirjam Cvetic University of Pennsylvania Type II and F-theory Instanton Effects	Room 1
09:35 to 10:10	Thomas Grimm Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München Fluxes and Warping in F-theory	Room 1
10:10 to 10:45	Shanta de Alwis University of Colorado Dark Matter density and the Higgs mass in LVS String Phenomenology.	Room 1
10:45 to 11:20	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:20 to 11:55	Fernando Marchesano IFT-UAM/CSIC Yukawas in F-Theory	Room 1
11:55 to 12:30	Eran Palti Centre de Physique Théorique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (CPHT) Wavefunctions and local models in F-theory	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:35	Sakura Schafer-Nameki King's College London F-theory and G-flux	Room 1
14:35 to 15:10	Timo Weigand Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Gauge fluxes and M5-instantons in F-theory and their Type IIB duals	Room 1
15:10 to 15:45	Angel Uranga IFT-UAM/CSIC Non-abelian discrete gauge symmetries in string theory	Room 1
15:45 to 16:15	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:15 to 16:30	Stefan Groot Nibbelink Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Super Weyl invariance: BPS equations from heterotic worldsheets	Room 1
16:15 to 16:30	Gabriele Honecker Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Towards the Standard Model on Rigid D-Branes	Room 2
16:30 to 16:45	Fabian Ruehle Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn GLSM descriptions of heterotic compactification spaces	Room 1
16:30 to 16:45	Lukas Witkowski University of Oxford Superpotential de-sequestering as a source of flavour violation	Room 2
16:45 to 17:00	David Marsh Cornell University The Coulomb Gas of Random Supergravities	Room 2
16:45 to 17:00	Susha Parameswaran Leibniz Universität Hannover Coupling Selection Rules in Heterotic Orbifold Compactifications	Room 1
17:00 to 17:15	Break	No Room Required
17:15 to 17:30	Hirotaka Hayashi Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) U(n) Spectral Covers from Decomposition	Room 1
17:15 to 17:30	Adolfo Guarino Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Exceptional Flux Compactifications	Room 2
17:30 to 17:45	Christoph Mayrhofer Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Searching for Phenomenologically Attractive Calabi-Yaus with Kähler Classes Variant under Orientifolding	Room 1
17:30 to 17:45	Andrea Borghese Rijksuniversiteit Groningen A geometric bound for F-term inflation	Room 2
17:45 to 18:00	Bryan Larios Lopez Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) On the Beaming of Gluonic Fields at Strong Coupling	Room 2
17:45 to 18:00	Sven Krippendorf Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Model building and moduli stabilisation in Calabi-Yau orientifold compactifications with branes at singularities	Room 1
19:30 to 22:00	Conference Dinner at Christ's College	No Room Required

Friday 29th June 2012
09:00 to 09:35	Luis Ibanez Universidad Autonoma de Madrid The SUSY breaking scale and F-theory unification	Room 1
09:35 to 10:10	Bert Schellekens National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef) Discrete gauge symmetries in discrete orientifolds	Room 1
10:10 to 10:45	Alon Faraggi University of Liverpool The Dark OPERA	Room 1
10:45 to 11:20	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:20 to 11:55	Burt Ovrut University of Pennsylvania Phenomenological Heterotic Theory: Standard Models, the Renormalization Group and All That	Room 1
11:55 to 12:30	Andre Lukas University of Oxford Heterotic Line Bundle Models in Four Dimensions	Room 1
12:30 to 12:35	Jan Louis Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Announcement of String Pheno 2013	Room 1
12:35 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:35	Gianguido Dall’Agata Università degli Studi di Padova New facts on classical and quantum N=8 supergravity	Room 1
14:35 to 15:10	Iñaki García-Etxebarria CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research New N=1 dualities from contracting orientifolds	Room 1
15:10 to 15:45	Closing Comments	Room 1
15:45 to 16:20	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
18:45 to 19:15	Dinner for Residents at Fitzwilliam & Churchill Colleges	No Room Required

Mathematics and applications of branes in string and M-theory

Speakers

Ben Allanach University of Cambridge
Lara Anderson Harvard University
David Andriot Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ignatios Antoniadis CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research
David Berenstein University of California, Santa Barbara
Ralph Blumenhagen Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Andrea Borghese Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Kiwoon Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Michele Cicoli Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Gerald Cleaver Baylor University
Mirjam Cvetic University of Pennsylvania
Gianguido Dall’Agata Università degli Studi di Padova
Rhys Davies University of Oxford
Shanta de Alwis University of Colorado
Andreas Deser Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Alon Faraggi University of Liverpool
Iñaki García-Etxebarria CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research
Mark Goodsell CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research
James Gray Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Mariana Graña CEA/Saclay
Thomas Grimm Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Stefan Groot Nibbelink Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Adolfo Guarino Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
James Halverson University of Pennsylvania
Hirotaka Hayashi Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Ben Heidenreich Cornell University
Gabriele Honecker Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Luis Ibanez Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Benjamin Jurke Northeastern University
Gordon Kane University of Michigan
Max Kerstan Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Shaaban Khalil Zewail City of Science and Technology
Seok Kim Seoul National University
Michael Klaput University of Oxford
Sebastian Kraus Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Sven Krippendorf Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Piyush Kumar Columbia University
Bryan Larios Lopez Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Kimyeong Lee Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Jan Louis Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Ran Lu University of Michigan
Dieter Luest Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Andre Lukas University of Oxford
Christoph Lüdeling Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Fernando Marchesano IFT-UAM/CSIC
David Marsh Cornell University
Christoph Mayrhofer Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Liam McAllister Cornell University
Paul McGuirk Cornell University
Dhagash Mehta Syracuse University
Paulo Moniz Universidade da Beira Interior
Brent Nelson Northeastern University
Peter Nilles Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Nobuyoshi Ohta Kindai University
Burt Ovrut University of Pennsylvania
Eran Palti Centre de Physique Théorique de l’Ecole Polytechnique (CPHT)
Susha Parameswaran Leibniz Universität Hannover
Peter Patalong Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Erik Plauschinn Universiteit Utrecht
Stuart Raby Ohio State University
Michael Ratz Technische Universität München
Javier Redondo Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Diederik Roest Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Fabian Ruehle Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Jose A Ruiz Cembranos Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Markus Rummel Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Raffaele Savelli Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Sakura Schafer-Nameki King's College London
Bert Schellekens National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef)
Gary Shiu University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paul Smyth
Yoske Sumitomo Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Eirik Svanes University of Oxford
Mahdi Torabian Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Krzysztof Turzynski Uniwersytet Warszawski
Angel Uranga IFT-UAM/CSIC
Cumrun Vafa Harvard University
William Walters University of Liverpool
Scott Watson Syracuse University
Timo Weigand Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Alexander Westphal Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
Danielle Wills University of Durham
Lukas Witkowski University of Oxford
Ivonne Zavala Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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