String Vacuum Project Workshop Schedule

Date Time Event
Friday, Nov. 5 9:15 - 9:30 AM Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:00 AM Douglas Moore : "A Systematic, Statistical Search of Gauge Content in FF Heterotic String Models"
10:10 - 10:40 AM Timothy Renner : "Systematic Extensions of the NAHE Set and NAHE Variation in the Free Fermionic Heterotic String Landscape"
10:50 - 11:20 AM Jared Greenwald : "On the correlation of extra MSSM Higgs to stringent flat directions in heterotic string theory"
11:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:00 PM Sven Krippendorf : "Phenomenology of D-branes at Toric Singularities"
2:10 - 2:40 PM Joseph Marsano: "Challenges for Model-Building with F-theory GUTs"
2:50 - 3:20 PM Coffee break
3:20 - 3:50 PM Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria : "Computation of non-perturbative effects in the landscape"
4:00 - 4:30 PM James Halverson : "Approaching the Landscape: Computability of IIB/F-theory Instantons and Insights from MSSM-containing quivers"
4:40 - 5:10 PM Lilia Anguelova: "Heterotic Large Volume Compactifications"
5:20 - 6:20 PM Juice & Cheese Reception
Saturday, Nov. 6 9:30 - 10:00 AM Lara Anderson : "Stabilizing the complex structure in Calabi-Yau compactifications of heterotic M-theory"
10:10 - 10:40 AM James Gray : "Moduli stabilization scenarios in heterotic M-theory"
10:50 - 11:20 AM Burt Ovrut : "The Particle Physics and Cosmology of SU(4) Heterotic Vacua"
11:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:30 PM Discussion of Mathematical Tools used in Stringy Constructions
3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee break
4:00 - 4:30 PM Ross O'Connell : "Attractor Equations and Flux Compactifications"
4:40 - 5:10 PM Patrick Vaudrevange : "The unique Z_4R of the MSSM and its string theory realization using the C++ orbifolder"
5:20 - 5:50 PM Daniel Park: "Lessons from the Six-Dimensional String Landscape"
6:30 - 8:00 PM SVP Banquet : Blackwell Hotel
Sunday, Nov. 7 9:30 - 10:00 AM Konstantin Bobkov : "Minimalist approach to Kahler moduli stabilization in Type IIB orientifolds"
10:10 - 10:40 AM Eric Kuflik: "Moduli Stabilzation and non-Thermal Dark Matter"
10:50 - 11:20 AM Ran Lu : "Theory and Phenomelogy of the mu-problem in G2-MSSM"
11:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30 PM Discussion of Future Directions for the SVP
2:30 - 3:00 PM David Marsh : "Sequestering in string compactifications"
3:10 - 3:40 PM Bret Underwood : "A Breathing Mode for Warped Compactifications"
3:50 - 4:20 PM Coffee break
4:20 - 4:50 PM Paul McGuirk : "Chiral Matter Wavefunctions in Warped Compactifications"
5:00 - 5:30 PM Timm Wrase : "Smeared versus localized sources in flux compactifications"
5:40 PM End of Workshop