July 2 – July 13, 2012
String theory is not just a quantum theory of gravity; it is also a powerful framework to address
fundamental questions about our world. String phenomenology attempts to derive testable
predictions for our four-dimensional world from the fundamental 10/11 dimensional string/M-theory.
Significant progress has been made in this direction in the last few years.
The Simons Center is holding a pedagogical summer school on string phenomenology to review this
progress and provide a foundation for future research. The school is open to PhDs in their final year
and recent postdocs in theoretical particle physics and related fields. There will be 8 lecture series and
additional seminar speakers, with ample time for informal discussions and interactions. The lectures
will be posted online and annotated with detailed derivations and references.
Summer School on String Phenomenology Schedule: Week 1
| Topics | Presenter | Video | |
| 09:30 | Supergravity Effective Actions from Strings | Jan Louis | video |
| 11:00 | Fluxes and Moduli Stabilization | Shamit Kachru | video |
| 01:30 | Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Langrangians | Kiwoon Choi | videoChoi Lecture Notes1-3 |
| 02:45 | Type-II Models and Instantons | Angel Uranga | videoUranga Lecture Notes 1 |
| 04:00 | Tea |
| Presenters | Video | ||
| 09:30 | Supergravity Effective Actions from Strings | Jan Louis | video |
| 11:00 | Fluxes and Moduli Stabilization | Shamit Kachru | video |
| 01:30 | Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Langrangians | Kiwoon Choi | videoChoi Lecture Notes1-3 |
| 02:45 | Type-II Models and Instantons | Angel Uranga | videoUranga Lecture Notes 1 |
| 04:00 | Tea |
| Presenters | No Video | ||
| 09:30 | Supergravity Effective Actions from Strings | Jan Louis | |
| 11:00 | Fluxes and Moduli Stabilization | Shamit Kachru | |
| 01:30 | Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Langrangians | Kiwoon Choi | Choi Lecture Notes1-3 |
| 2:45 | Type-II Models and Instantons | Angel Uranga | Uranga Lecture Notes- 2 |
| Presenters | Video | ||
| 09:30 | Supergravity Effective Actions from Strings | Jan Louis | video |
| 11:00 | Fluxes and Moduli Stabilization | Shamit Kachru | video |
| 01:30 | Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Langrangians | Kiwoon Choi | video |
| 02:45 | Type-II Models and Instantons | Angel Uranga | video |
| Presenters | Video | ||
| 09:30 | Supergravity Effective Actions from Strings | Jan Louis | video |
| 11:00 | Cosmology | Liam McAllister | video |
| 01:30 | Type-II Models and Instantons | Angel Uranga | video |
| 02:45 | Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Langrangians | Kiwoon Choi | video |
| Title | Presenters | No Video | |
| 09:30 | Cosmology | Liam McAllister | |
| 11:00 | Gordon Kane |
Summer School on String Phenomenology Schedule: Week 2
| Title | Presenter | Video | |
| 09:30 | Calabi-‐Yau Manifolds II | Lara Anderson and James Gray | video |
| 11:00 | G2 Compactifications | Bobby Acharya | video |
| 01:30 | Heterotic Model Building | Michael Ratz | video |
| 02:45 | F-Theory | Johnathan Heckman | video |
| 04:00 | Tea |
| Title | Presenters | Video | |
| 09:30 | Calabi-‐Yau Manifolds II | Lara Anderson and James Gray | video |
| 11:00 | G2 Compactifications | Bobby Acharya | video |
| 01:30 | Heterotic Model Building | Michael Ratz | video |
| 02:45 | F-Theory | Johnathan Heckman | video |
| Title | Presenters | Video | |
| 09:30 | Calabi-‐Yau Manifolds II | Lara Anderson and James Gray | video |
| 11:00 | G2 Compactifications | Bobby Acharya | video |
| 01:30 | Heterotic Model Building | Michael Ratz | video |
| 2:45 | F-Theory | Johnathan Heckman | video |
Download Schedule
(last update: 3/6/2012)
Lecturers and Topics
Bobby Acharya (ICTP Trieste), G2 compactifications
Lara Anderson (Harvard), Calabi-Yau Manifolds II
Kiwoon Choi (KAIST), Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Lagrangians
James Gray (LMU Munich), Calabi-Yau Manifolds I
Jonathan Heckman (IAS), F-theory
Shamit Kachru (Stanford), Fluxes and Moduli Stabilization
Jan Louis (Hamburg), Supergravity Effective Actions from Strings
Liam McAllister (Cornell), Cosmology
Michael Ratz (TU Munich), Heterotic Model Building
Angel Uranga (ITP Madrid), Type-II Models and Instantons
Organizing Committee
Michael R. Douglas (SCGP & YITP, Stony Brook)
Rouven Essig (YITP, Stony Brook)
Gordon Kane (Michigan)
Patrick Meade (YITP, Stony Brook)
Fernando Quevedo (Cambridge/ICTP)
Participants
Archana Anandakrishnan, Thomas Bachlechner, Federico Bonetti, Fang Chen, Sujan Dabholkar, Sean Downes, Wan Zhe Feng, Maximilian Fischer, Jim Halverson, Ben Heidenreich, Christoph Horst, Andrew Irrgang, Bei Jia, Peggy Kouroumalou, Haishan Liu, Lihui Liu, Ran Lu, David Marsh, Andrea Massari, Damian Kaloni Mayorga Pena, Viraf Mehta, Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann, Hernan Piragua, Diego Regalado, Felix Rennecke, Fabian Ruehle, Markus Rummel, Matthias Schmitz, Pramod Kumar Shukla, Jaewon Song, Christian Staudt, Charles Strickland-Constable, Jesus Torrado Cacho, Irene Valenzuela, William Walters, Zhao Wang, Matthias Weißenbacher, Lukas Witkowski, Chaolun Wu .
