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Quantum Gravity and the Swampland
Add to Calendar 2019-03-22T09:00:00 2019-03-22T10:00:00 UTC Quantum Gravity and the Swampland

Physics FTheory

Start DateFri, Mar 22, 2019
5:00 AM
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End DateFri, Mar 22, 2019
6:00 AM
Presented By
Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Physics FTheory

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String theory seems to offer an enormous number of possibilities for low energy physics. The huge set of solutions is often known as the String Theory Landscape. In recent years, however, it has become clear that not all quantum field theories an be consistently coupled to gravity. Theories that cannot be ultraviolet completed in quantum gravity are said to be in the Swampland. In this talk, I'll discuss some conjectured properties of quantum gravity, evidences for them and their applications to cosmology and particle physics.