Beijing Geometry and Physics Colloquium

Speaker:Cumrun Vafa (Hollis Professor
Time: Wednesday, 2nd Dec. 10 AM
Venue:Zoom ID: 388 528 9728 Passcode: BIMSA
                   

Abstract

String theory landscape of vacua point to new consistency conditions that a quantum gravitational system must satisfy. There are only a small number of quantum field theories that satisfy these conditions and all the rest belong to the `Swampland' which cannot be consistently coupled to gravity. In this talk I review some of these conditions and their implications for cosmology and particle physics.