Physics and Geometry of F-theory 2015

23 Feb 2015, 08:00 → 26 Feb 2015, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium (MPI fuer Physik)

The goal of the workshop is to bring together the world experts working in the field of F-theory, a geometric non-perturbative version of string theory.

At the conference, the topics to be discussed include:

• Phenomenological aspects of F-theory particle physics, including Grand Unification, proton decay, selection rules, Yukawa textures
• Supersymmetry breaking and soft terms in F-theory
• Inflationary models and moduli stabilization in F-theory
• Derivation and classification of effective theories arising in F-theory
• Dualities to other string theories
• New mathematical advances including geometrical aspects of elliptic fibrations, the Mori program for higher-dimensional spaces, enumeration geometry for Calabi-Yau fourfolds, mixed Hodge structures, and Hitchin systems