Schedule for: 22w5083 - Geometry and Swampland (Online)

Beginning on Sunday, January 23 and ending Friday January 28, 2022

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Monday, January 24
07:30 - 09:00 Miguel Montero: A hike through the Swampland (Online)
09:00 - 09:30 Gather Town Break (Online)
09:30 - 11:00 Daniel Waldram: A review of generalised geometry (Online)
Tuesday, January 25
07:30 - 08:10 Emanuel Malek: Generalised geometry, consistent truncations and the Kaluza-Klein spectrum of string compactifications (Online)
08:10 - 08:15 Virtual Group Photo
Please join us for the group photo by turning the camera on in zoom.
(Online)
08:15 - 09:30 Discussion on consistent truncations and scale separation
Moderators: Anamaria Font, Fernando Marchesano, Cumrun Vafa and Thomas Van Riet
(Online)
09:30 - 10:00 Gather Town Break (Online)
10:00 - 10:40 Vicente Cortes: Quaternionic Kähler manifolds with ends of finite volume and instanton corrections thereof (Online)
10:40 - 11:20 Eran Palti: Stability of BPS states at weak coupling (Online)
Wednesday, January 26
07:30 - 08:10 Luca Martucci: Large field distances from EFT strings (Online)
08:10 - 09:30 Discussion on infinite distance limits
Moderators: Thomas Grimm, Raffaele Savelli, Irene Valenzuela
(Online)
09:30 - 09:50 Gather town break (Online)
09:50 - 10:10 Mentoring program (Online)
10:00 - 10:40 Magdalena Larfors: Gauged 2-form Symmetries in 6D SCFTs Coupled to Gravity (Online)
10:40 - 11:20 Naomi Gendler: Flops, Topological Invariants, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture (Online)
Thursday, January 27
07:30 - 08:10 Alessandro Tomasiello: Bounds on KK spin-two fields (Online)
08:10 - 09:30 Discussion on exchanging tools between swampland and generalized geometry
Moderators: Ruben Minasian, Miguel Montero, Michela Petrini and Daniel Waldram
(Online)
09:30 - 10:00 Gather Town Break (Online)
10:00 - 10:40 Timo Weigand: Infinite Distances, Strings and Membranes (Online)
10:40 - 11:20 Dimitrios Tsimpis: Relative scale separation in sphere orbifolds (Online)
11:30 - 12:30 Gather Town Cocktail (Online)
Friday, January 28
07:30 - 08:10 Ralph Blumenhagen: K-theory and Cobordism (Online)
08:10 - 09:30 Discussion on deSitter
Moderators: David Andriot, Mariana Graña, Arthur Hebecker
(Online)
09:30 - 10:00 Gather Town Break (Online)
10:00 - 10:40 Charlotte Kirchhoff-Lukat: First Steps in Mirror Symmetry for Generalized Complex Geometry (Online)
10:40 - 11:20 Iñaki García Etxebarria: Symmetry theories from string theory (Online)