Date Nov 19, 2020, 12:15 pm – 12:15 pm Location Zoom Meeting Audience A free lecture open to the public. Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Speaker Cumrun Vafa Affiliation Harvard University Presentation “The String Landscape and the Swampland” Details Event Description String theory landscape of vacua point to new consistency conditions that a quantum gravitational system must satisfy. There are only a small number of quantum field theories that satisfy these conditions and all the rest belong to the `Swampland' which cannot be consistently coupled to gravity. In this talk I review some of these conditions and their implications for cosmology and particle physics. Twitter: #PrincetonPhyColloq Zoom Link: Click Here to Join Recording of Prof. Vafa's Talk: Click Here: Sponsor Department of Physics
