GRAVITY, STRINGS AND SUPERSYMMETRY BREAKING

3 Apr 2025, 08:30 → 5 Apr 2025, 23:30 Europe/Rome

Sala Azzurra (Palazzo della Carovana)

Scuola Normale Superiore - 3 - 5 April 2025

Sala Azzurra | Palazzo della Carovana
piazza dei Cavalieri 7 - Pisa

Organizing Commitee
W. Buchmüller (DESY), E. Dudas (É. Polytechnique), D. Luest (LMU - Munich), A. Sagnotti (Scuola Normale, Chair)

Review talks on theoretical aspects by
C. Angelantonj (U. Torino), J. de Boer (U. Amsterdam), G. Dvali (LMU -Munich), A. Hebecker (Heidelberg), S. Mukhanov (LMU - Munich), G.L. Pimentel  (Scuola Normale)

Review talks on aspects related to ongoing experiments by
M. Aspelmeyer (U. Wien), F. Januschek (DESY), M. Kado (Max Planck), G. Losurdo (Scuola Normale), A. Melchiorri (U. Roma "La Sapienza"), P. Natoli (U. Ferrara), K. Schaeffner (Max Planck)

Additional theory talks by
I. Antoniadis (LPTHE - U. Paris VI), C. Bachas (É. Normale), I. Basile (Max Planck), I. Bena (Saclay), M. Bianchi (U. Roma "Tor Vergata"), G. Bossard (É. Polytéchnique), G. Dall'Agata (U. Padova), M. Dierigl (CERN), F. Hassan (U. Stockholm), C. Heissenberg (Saclay), C. Hull (Imperial College), A, Kehagias (U. Athens), E. Kiritsis (U. Crete), S. Lust (Montpellier), C. Markou (Scuola Normale), M. Montero (IFT-Madrid), K. Mkrtchyan (Imperial College), J. Mourad (APC - U. Paris VII), A. Tomasiello (U. Milano Bicocca), P. Townsend (U. Cambridge), I. Valenzuela (IFT - Madrid), T. Weigand (DESY), A. Westphal (DESY)    

 

Thursday, 3 April

08:30 → 09:00 Registration - Palazzo della Carovana, II floor (in front of Sala Azzurra)

09:00 → 09:14 Introduction

Sagnotti_Pisa_2025.pdf

09:14 → 09:15 CHAIR - W. BUCHMÜLLER

09:15 → 10:00 C. Angelantonj, "Aspects of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Theory"

Angelantonj_SNS_v2.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 I. Antoniadis, "Landscape, swampland and extra dimensions"

Antoniadis_Pisa2025.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 C. Bachas, "An unusual BPS equation"

Bachas_Pisa.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 I. Basile, "Fivebrane anomalies and discrete theta angles"

Basile.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 I. Bena, "Spikes all the way down"

Bena-Pisa-2025.pdf

14:29 → 14:30 CHAIR - E. DUDAS

14:30 → 15:00 M. Bianchi, "Gauge Theory meets Cosmology"

Bianchi.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 G. Bossard, "S-duality in a non-supersymmetric orientifold”

Bossard-Pisa.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 G. Dall'Agata, "Casimir energy on Bieberbach manifolds"

Dall_Agata.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 M. Dierigl, "Duality Defects in String Theory"

Dierigl_Pisa.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:30 F. Hassan, "Ghost-free theories of multiple spin-2 fields"

Hassan-Pisa.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 C. Heissenberg, "Unitarity and gravitational radiation-reaction at two and three loops"

Heissenberg_Pisa.pdf

18:00 → 18:45 J. de Boer, "Gravity and Statistical Physics"

deboer-pisa0425.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Reception

Friday, 4 April

09:14 → 09:15 CHAIR - D. LUEST

09:15 → 10:00 G. Dvali, "Theta-vacua and inevitability of quality axions and supersymmetry in Standard Model and gravity"

Dvali Axion_Gia_talk_Pisa_04_04_25_333.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 C. Hull, "Quantum magnetic monopoles"

Hull.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 A. Kehagias, "Quasinormal modes as adiabatic modes"

Kehagias-4-4-25.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 E. Kiritsis, "On High Energy Strings"

Kiritsis-SNS-2025.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 S. Lust,“Holography and KKLT”

Severin_Luest.pdf

14:29 → 14:30 CHAIR - A. SAGNOTTI

14:30 → 15:00 C. Markou, "How well do we understand string spectra?"

Chrysoula_SNS.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 K. Mkrtchyan, "Democratic Electric-Magnetic Dualities"

Mkrtchyan SNS 25.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 M. Montero, "Accelerated expansion, Casimir energies, and Riemann-flat manifolds"

Montero-pisa-workshop.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 J. Mourad, "A 4D IIB flux vacuum with broken supersymmetry and boundaries"

Mourad.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:30 A. Tomasiello, "On the stability of non-supersymmetric string vacua"

tomasiello-sns-apr25.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 P. Townsend, "The Extreme D3-Brane"

Townsend-Pisa-Talk.pdf

18:00 → 18:30 I. Valenzuela, "Supersymmetry breaking on DGKT domain walls"

Valenzuela-pisa.pdf

18:30 → 19:15 A. Hebecker, "On Stringy de Sitter Vacua"

Hebecker.pdf

Saturday, 5 April

09:14 → 09:15 CHAIR - E: TRINCHERINI

09:15 → 10:00 V. Mukhanov, "Modern Cosmology: facts, myths and misconceptions"

01_Mukhanov.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 T. Weigand, "Bottom-up Constraints on Quantum Gravity"

02_Weigand.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 A. Westphal, "Uplifts in the Penumbra: Features of the Moduli Potential just before Infinity”

03_Westphal.pdf

11:00 → 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 → 12:30 G. Pimentel, "Theory and Phenomenology of Cosmological Correlators"

04_Pimentel.pdf

14:29 → 14:30 CHAIR - R. BARBIERI

14:30 → 15:00 M. Aspelmeyer, "Quantum signatures of gravity in the lab: how to avoid the appearance of a classical world in gravity experiments?”

05_Aspelmeyer.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 F. Januschek, "Axion Searches"

AxionSearches_Januschek_v3.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 M. Kado, "Direct searches at colliders, status and perspectives”

08_Kado.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 G. Losurdo, "Ground based GW detectors: status and perspectives"

09_losurdo_v2.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:30 A. Melchiorri, "The H0 puzzle"

10_Melchiorri(1).pdf

17:30 → 18:00 P. Natoli, "The CMB landscape for the next 25 years"

11_Natoli.pdf

18:00 → 18:30 K. Schaeffner, "Dark matter direct detection, what's next?"

12_Schaeffner.pdf

18:30 → 18:40 Conclusion

20:30 → 23:30 Dinner