List of Seminars
Upcoming seminars:
April 23, 2024: Eric Perlmutter (IPhT Saclay): "A Rigorous Holographic Bound on AdS Scale Separation"
May 7, 2024: Alek Bedroya
Past seminars:
April 9, 2024: Open Mic Discussion on "Species Scale and QG cutoff"
March 26, 2024: Matteo Lotito (Seoul U.): "Proving the WGC in perturbative string theory"
March 12, 2024: Eduardo García-Valdecasas (SISSA): "Spontaneously broken (-1)-form U(1) symmetries"
February 27, 2024: Max Hübner (UPenn): "On the Holographic Dual of a Topological Symmetry Operator"
February 13, 2024: Dieter Lüst (MPI and LMU): "Species, thermodynamics and emergent strings"
January 30, 2024: Angel Uranga (IFT Madrid): "Dynamical cobordisms everywhere all at once"
December 4, 2023: Ivano Basile (LMU): "Anomalies in string universality"
November 13, 2023: Ralph Blumenhagen and Niccolo Cribiori (MPI): "Is M-theory emergent?"
October 30, 2023: Masahito Yamazaki (IPMU): "Emergent Global Symmetries in Holography for Swamplanders"
October 16, 2023: Open Mic Discussion on "Asymptotic Accelerated Expansion"
October 2, 2023: Dimitrios Tsimpis (Lyon) "Accelerated expansion in an open universe"
Past seminars (before Fall 2023):
Aaron Hillman (Princeton) "Stringy Completions of the Standard Model from the Bottom Up"
Jonathan Heckman (UPenn) and Arun Debray (Purdue). Title: "IIBordia"
Naomi Gendler and Jakob Moritz (Cornell U) "Moduli Space Reconstruction and Weak Gravity"
Juan Maldacena (IAS) "Wormholes and global symmetry violations in high energy amplitudes"
Savdeep Sethi (U Chicago) "Stringy solutions without supersymmetry"
Alek Bedroya (Harvard) "Holography, TCC and the Distance conjecture"
Luca Martucci (U Padova) "Quantum Gravity bounds on 4d N=1 EFTs in four dimensions"
Stefano Andriolo (Ben Gurion U) "Self-binding in AdS and the WGC"
Hector Parra and Bernardo Fraiman (IPhT Saclay) "Unifying the 6d N=(1,1) string landscape"
Ralph Blumenhagen and Niccolo Cribiori "Cobordism, K-theory and Tadpoles"
Ben Heidenreich (UMass Amherst) "Sharpening the Swampland Distance conjecture"
Shai Chester (Harvard) "Pure supergravity and the conformal boostrap"
Georges Obied (Harvard) "Inflation and light Dark matter constraints from Swampland"
Simon Caron-Huot (McGill) and Julio Parra (Caltech) "Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity"
Timm Wrase and Eduardo Gonzalo (Lehigh) "Type IIB flux compactifications with h11=0"
Jose Calderon-Infante (IFT Madrid) "Open mic discussion on Corbordism"
Fernando Quevedo (Cambridge) "RG-induced moduli stabilization and brane-antibrane inflation"
Tom Rudelius (UC Berkeley) "Generalized Global Symmetries and the Weak Gravity Conjecture"
Patrick Draper (Illinois) and Alvaro Herraez (IPhT Saclay) "Open Mic discussion on entropy bounds"
Fernando Marchesano (IFT Madrid) and Max Wiesner (Harvard CMSA) "4d strings at strong coupling"
Du Pei (Harvard CMSA) "Holomorphic CFTs and topological modular forms"
Timo Weigand and Rafael Alavarez-Garcia (DESY) "Membrane limits in Quantum Gravity"
Lars Aalsma (UW-Madison) "Extremal black hole corrections from Iyer-Wald"
Thomas Grimm (Utrecht U) "Taming the Landscape"
Timm Wrase (Lehigh U) "Scale separated AdS vacua?"
Pieter Bomans (Padova and Princeton) "Bubble instability of massive IIA on AdS4xS6"
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) and Gary Shiu (UW-Md) "Open mic discussion on Swampland, unitarity and causality"
Thomas Van Riet (KU Leuven) "The FL bound"
Eran Palti (Ben Gurion U) "Convexity of Charged Operators in CFTs and the Weak Gravity conjecture"
Manki Kim (MIT) "Small cosmological constants in string theory"
John Stout (Harvard) "Decoding divergent distances"
Alessandro Tomasiello (Bioca) and Bruno de Luca (Stanford) "Bounds on KK Spin 2 fields"
Yuta Hamada (Harvard) "8d supergravity, reconstruction of internal geometry and the Swampland"
Daniel Klaewer (JGU Mainz) "The Refined Distance Conjecture in the N=2 Duality Web"
Joao Penedones (EPFL) "Where is String Theory?"
Mariana Graña (CEA-Saclay) "The landscape of toroidal string compactifications"
Leonardo Rastelli (SUNNY Stony Brook) "Sharp boundaries for the Swampland"
Dieter Lüst (MPI and LMU) "The Swampland at a large number of dimensions"
Markus Dierigl (LMU and UPenn) "Center 1-form symmetries and the Swampland"
Ralph Blumenhagen (LMU) "De Sitter Quantum Breaking, Swampland conjectures and Thermal strings"
Daniel Harlow (MIT) "Global symmetry, Euclidean gravity and the black hole information problem"
Severin Lüst (Harvard) "The Tadpole Problem"
Jake McNamara and Tom Rudelius "The Completeness Hypothesis and Chern-Weil Symmetries"
Daniel Jughans (Harvard CMSA) "Control issues of KKLT"
Carlo Angelantonj and Emelian Dudas "String defects, Supersymmetry and the Swampland"
Sergio Cecotti "Comments and speculations on swampland geometry"
Hirosi Ooguri "Testing Swampland conjectures"
John March-Russell "The Standard Model and the Swampland"
Angel Uranga "A discrete life in the Swampland"
Eran Palti "Brane-Monodromy Duality at Infinite Distance"
Past online workshops:
March 8-10 2021: "Zooming in on the Swampland" workshop: