Mikefest: A conference in honor of Michael Douglas' 60th birthday

Session

Morning chair: Frank Ferrari

May 13, 2022, 9:00 AM

Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons (Le Bois-Marie)

24. Radiation from Matrix Models (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn)

Prof. Bartomeu FIOL (University of Barcelona)

5/13/22, 9:00 AM

I give an overview of work characterizing radiation in generic four-dimensional conformal field theories. I argue that for theories with conformal scalars, the radiated energy is not positive definite and the radiated power is not Lorentz invariant. I then determine the coupling dependence of radiation, for N=2 superconformal field theories in the planar limit. This involves a purely...

25. Flux Vacua and the Cosmological Constant (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn)

Prof. Liam MCALLISTER (Cornell University)

5/13/22, 10:00 AM

We construct vacua of string theory in which all moduli are stabilized, and the magnitude of the cosmological constant is exponentially small. The vacua are supersymmetric AdS solutions in flux compactifications of type IIB string theory on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces. The vacuum energy is small because we ensure the exact cancellation of all perturbative contributions, through an...

26. TBC (T: 50mn + Q: 10mn)

Prof. Frederik DENEF (Columbia University)

5/13/22, 11:30 AM