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String Vacuum Project Workshop Schedule |
Date | Time | Event |
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Friday, Nov. 5 | 9:15 - 9:30 AM | Opening Remarks |
9:30 - 10:00 AM | Douglas Moore : "A Systematic, Statistical Search of Gauge Content in FF Heterotic String Models" | |
10:10 - 10:40 AM | Timothy Renner : "Systematic Extensions of the NAHE Set and NAHE Variation in the Free Fermionic Heterotic String Landscape" | |
10:50 - 11:20 AM | Jared Greenwald : "On the correlation of extra MSSM Higgs to stringent flat directions in heterotic string theory" | |
11:30 - 1:30 PM | Lunch Break | |
1:30 - 2:00 PM | Sven Krippendorf : "Phenomenology of D-branes at Toric Singularities" | |
2:10 - 2:40 PM | Joseph Marsano: "Challenges for Model-Building with F-theory GUTs" | |
2:50 - 3:20 PM | Coffee break | |
3:20 - 3:50 PM | Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria : "Computation of non-perturbative effects in the landscape" | |
4:00 - 4:30 PM | James Halverson : "Approaching the Landscape: Computability of IIB/F-theory Instantons and Insights from MSSM-containing quivers" | |
4:40 - 5:10 PM | Lilia Anguelova: "Heterotic Large Volume Compactifications" | |
5:20 - 6:20 PM | Juice & Cheese Reception | |
Saturday, Nov. 6 | 9:30 - 10:00 AM | Lara Anderson : "Stabilizing the complex structure in Calabi-Yau compactifications of heterotic M-theory" |
10:10 - 10:40 AM | James Gray : "Moduli stabilization scenarios in heterotic M-theory" | |
10:50 - 11:20 AM | Burt Ovrut : "The Particle Physics and Cosmology of SU(4) Heterotic Vacua" | |
11:30 - 1:30 PM | Lunch Break | |
1:30 - 3:30 PM | Discussion of Mathematical Tools used in Stringy Constructions | |
3:30 - 4:00 PM | Coffee break | |
4:00 - 4:30 PM | Ross O'Connell : "Attractor Equations and Flux Compactifications" | |
4:40 - 5:10 PM | Patrick Vaudrevange : "The unique Z_4R of the MSSM and its string theory realization using the C++ orbifolder" | |
5:20 - 5:50 PM | Daniel Park: "Lessons from the Six-Dimensional String Landscape" | |
6:30 - 8:00 PM | SVP Banquet : Blackwell Hotel | |
Sunday, Nov. 7 | 9:30 - 10:00 AM | Konstantin Bobkov : "Minimalist approach to Kahler moduli stabilization in Type IIB orientifolds" |
10:10 - 10:40 AM | Eric Kuflik: "Moduli Stabilzation and non-Thermal Dark Matter" | |
10:50 - 11:20 AM | Ran Lu : "Theory and Phenomelogy of the mu-problem in G2-MSSM" | |
11:30 - 1:30 PM | Lunch Break | |
1:30 - 2:30 PM | Discussion of Future Directions for the SVP | |
2:30 - 3:00 PM | David Marsh : "Sequestering in string compactifications" | |
3:10 - 3:40 PM | Bret Underwood : "A Breathing Mode for Warped Compactifications" | |
3:50 - 4:20 PM | Coffee break | |
4:20 - 4:50 PM | Paul McGuirk : "Chiral Matter Wavefunctions in Warped Compactifications" | |
5:00 - 5:30 PM | Timm Wrase : "Smeared versus localized sources in flux compactifications" | |
5:40 PM | End of Workshop |