The Tameness of Quantum Field Theories 

Swampland Seminar Speaker: Thomas Grimm (Utrecht U.) Title: The Tameness of Quantum Field Theories Abstract: Tameness is a generalized notion of finiteness that is restricting the geometric complexity of sets and functions. The underlying mathematical foundation lies in tame ...

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Swampland bounds on the abelian gauge sectors

Swampland Seminar Speaker: Seung-Joo Lee (IBS Daejeon) Title: Swampland bounds on the abelian gauge sectors Abstract: In this talk we will derive various bounds on the 0-form and the 1-form abelian gauge sectors of gravitational effective theories in 6 dimensions with minimal su ...

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Recent developments on the tidal Love numbers of black holes

Swampland Seminar Speaker: Valerio De Luca (UPenn) Title: Recent developments on the tidal Love numbers of black holes Abstract: Tidal Love numbers describe the deformability of compact objects under the presence of external tidal perturbations, and are found to be exactly zero f ...

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String theory scalar potentials and their critical points

Swampland Seminar Speaker: David Andriot (Annecy, LAPTH) Title: String theory scalar potentials and their critical points Abstract: Positive scalar potentials in string effective theories could provide an origin to Dark Energy, responsible for the accelerated expansion of our uni ...

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Parity and Cobordism

Swampland Seminar Speaker: Jake McNamara (Caltech) Title: Parity and Cobordism Abstract: The swampland cobordism conjecture provides a convenient way to discuss conserved charges associated with the topology of spacetime. However, much of the power of the cobordism conjecture c ...

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IIB Explored – Dualities, Bordisms, and the Swampland

Swampland Seminar Location: Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Seminar room J356 Speaker: Markus Dierigl (LMU Munich) Title: IIB Explored – Dualities, Bordisms, and the Swampland Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the application of the Cobordism Conjecture to type IIB sup ...

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EFT strings and emergence

Swampland Seminar Speaker: Fernando Marchesano (IFT Madrid) Title: EFT strings and emergence Abstract: We revisit the Emergence Proposal in 4d N=2 vector multiplet sectors that arise from  type II string Calabi-Yau compactifications, with emphasis on the role of axionic funda ...

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