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SUMMARY:Towards a Universe from Strings: building bridges between geometry
  and the cosmos - Andreas Schachner (Munich U. and Cornell U.)
DTSTART:20251124T130000Z
DTEND:20251124T140000Z
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CONTACT:Gonzalo Villa
DESCRIPTION:String theory provides our most developed framework for unifyi
 ng quantum mechanics and gravity\, but connecting it to the physics of our
  Universe requires a detailed understanding of how ten-dimensional geometr
 y gives rise to four-dimensional cosmology. In this talk\, I will discuss 
 recent progress toward this goal using a combination of new analytic techn
 iques and large-scale computational tools. I will highlight our recent con
 struction of explicit candidate de Sitter solutions\, as well as new mecha
 nisms for generating hierarchies of scales. I will further discuss how Ba
 yesian methods let us map axion spectra across the string landscape and co
 nfront them with data from the CMB\, and next-generation axion experiments
 .
LOCATION:CMS\, Pav. B\, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]
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