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

Session

Morning chair: Frank Ferrari

13 mai 2022, 09:00

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)

13/05/2022 09:00

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)

13/05/2022 10:00

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)

13/05/2022 11:30