Geometry and Swampland

24 janv. 2022, 09:00 → 28 janv. 2022, 14:00 Canada/Mountain

Banff research station

The Banff International Research Station will host the hybrid workshop "Geometry and Swampland” from January 24 - 28, 2022. (Latest news: Due to the pandemic situation as of December 2021, the workshop will be held purely virtual)  

Despite its undeniable success, there are evidences that the Standard Model cannot be the fundamental theory of electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions. The search for a theory beyond the Standard Model is deeply connected to another fundamental question in theoretical physics, namely understanding the structure of quantum gravity. Whatever effective theory might describe particle interactions beyond the observable energy scale must eventually be completed into quantum gravity. Recently, a lot of activity has been devoted to determine criteria which differentiate between effective low-energy field theories that can be consistently coupled to quantum gravity from theories that, even if they seem to be consistent, cannot. In the current jargon, the former are said to be in the `Landscape' while the latter form the so-called `Swampland'. A number of such criteria, or Swampland Conjectures, have been proposed in the literature and attracted considerable interest in the high energy physics community. The Swampland Conjectures have profound implications for many open issues in physics and cosmology, such as the structure of large field inflation in early-time cosmology, or the mechanism responsible for the observed late-time acceleration of the universe, to name some of the most striking examples. It is therefore extremely important and timely to put such conjectures on firmer grounds. 

A concrete and particularly well developed framework to address specific questions of quantum gravity is String Theory, where the Swampland conjectures translate into conjectures regarding the structure of possible string geometries. Recent work has shown that these geometries have an elegant reformulation in terms of a generalized version of Riemannian geometry. The goal of this workshop is to explore the intriguing connections between general properties of quantum gravity and the generalized geometry of string theory. The workshop aims to bring together the swampland community and the generalized geometry community at this unique time in which our understanding of the Swampland is quickly evolving. 

For more information on Banff research station, see the local webpage of the workshop 

Invited participants:

Aldazabal, Gerardo, Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche
Andriot, David, University of Savoie, Annecy 
Blumenhagen, Ralph, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 
Burrati, Ginebra, University of Padova 
Cabo-Brizet, Nana, University of Guanajuato 
Cortes, Vicente, Hamburg University
Font, Anamaria, Universidad Central de Caracas  
Garcia-Etxebarria, Inaki, Durham University 
Gendler, Naomi, Cornell University 
Grimm, Thomas, Utrecht University;
Hebecker, Arthur, Heidelberg University  
Kirchhoff-Lukat, Charlotte, KU Leuven 
Larfors,  Magdalena, Upssala University  
Lee, Seung-Joo,  Institut for Basic Sciences, Daejon, Korea  
Loaiza-Brito,  Oscar, Guanajuato University  
Lust,  Dieter,  Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 
Malek, Emanuel, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Postdam  
Martucci, Luca, Padua University 
Marchesano, Fernando, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 
Minasian, Ruben, CEA/Saclay 
Montero, Miguel, Harvard University  
Nunez, Carmen, University of Buenos Aires 
Savelli, Raffaele, Roma University Tor Vergata  
Ooguri, Hiroshi, Caltech University 
Palti, Eran, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev  
Shahbazi, Carlos, Hamburg University 
Tomasiello, Alessandro, University of Milano Bicocca  
Tsimpis, Dimitrios, Lyon University 
Vafa, Cumrun, Harvard University  
Waldram, Daniel, Imperial College London  
Weigand, Timo, Mainz University 
 

Organizers:

Mariana Grana, CEA/Saclay

Michela Petrini, Sorbonne University

Irene Valenzuela, Harvard University 

 

Slides

• Banff-discussion 3.pdf
• discussion-infinite-distance.pdf
• discussion-truncation-scaleseparation.pdf
• dS-discussion-all.pdf
• Montero.pdf

lun. 24 janvier

09:00 → 10:30 Review on Swampland

Orateur: Miguel Montero

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Review of generalized Geometry

Orateur: Daniel Waldram

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

mar. 25 janvier

08:30 → 09:10 Talk

09:10 → 10:30 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:40 Talk

11:40 → 12:20 Talk

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

mer. 26 janvier

08:30 → 09:10 Talk

09:10 → 10:30 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:40 Talk

11:40 → 12:20 Talk

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

jeu. 27 janvier

08:30 → 09:10 Talk

09:10 → 10:30 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:40 Talk

11:40 → 12:20 Talk

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

ven. 28 janvier

08:30 → 09:10 Talk

09:10 → 10:30 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Breal

11:00 → 11:40 Talk

11:40 → 12:20 Talk

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch