Start date

24/10/2022 12:30

End date

24/10/2022 14:30

Place

Dipartimento di Fisica - Aula Magna

Speakers

Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University, USA

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.