University of Pennsylvania Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
The String Landscape, The Swampland, and Our Universe
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.
Date & Time
January 20, 2021 | 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Location
Virtual MeetingSpeakers
Cumrun Vafa
Affiliation
Harvard University