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

1 Registration - Palazzo della Carovana, II floor (in front of Sala Azzurra)

2 Introduction

Sagnotti_Pisa_2025.pdf

3 CHAIR - W. BUCHMÜLLER

4 C. Angelantonj, "Aspects of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Theory"

Angelantonj_SNS_v2.pdf

5 I. Antoniadis, "Landscape, swampland and extra dimensions"

Antoniadis_Pisa2025.pdf

6 C. Bachas, "An unusual BPS equation"

Bachas_Pisa.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

7 I. Basile, "Fivebrane anomalies and discrete theta angles"

Basile.pdf

8 I. Bena, "Spikes all the way down"

Bena-Pisa-2025.pdf

9 CHAIR - E. DUDAS

10 M. Bianchi, "Gauge Theory meets Cosmology"

Bianchi.pdf

11 G. Bossard, "S-duality in a non-supersymmetric orientifold”

Bossard-Pisa.pdf

12 G. Dall'Agata, "Casimir energy on Bieberbach manifolds"

Dall_Agata.pdf

13 M. Dierigl, "Duality Defects in String Theory"

Dierigl_Pisa.pdf

16:30 Coffee break

14 F. Hassan, "Ghost-free theories of multiple spin-2 fields"

Hassan-Pisa.pdf

15 C. Heissenberg, "Unitarity and gravitational radiation-reaction at two and three loops"

Heissenberg_Pisa.pdf

16 J. de Boer, "Gravity and Statistical Physics"

deboer-pisa0425.pdf

19:00 Reception

Friday, 4 April

17 CHAIR - D. LUEST

18 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

19 C. Hull, "Quantum magnetic monopoles"

Hull.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

20 A. Kehagias, "Quasinormal modes as adiabatic modes"

Kehagias-4-4-25.pdf

21 E. Kiritsis, "On High Energy Strings"

Kiritsis-SNS-2025.pdf

22 S. Lust,“Holography and KKLT”

Severin_Luest.pdf

23 CHAIR - A. SAGNOTTI

24 C. Markou, "How well do we understand string spectra?"

Chrysoula_SNS.pdf

25 K. Mkrtchyan, "Democratic Electric-Magnetic Dualities"

Mkrtchyan SNS 25.pdf

26 M. Montero, "Accelerated expansion, Casimir energies, and Riemann-flat manifolds"

Montero-pisa-workshop.pdf

27 J. Mourad, "A 4D IIB flux vacuum with broken supersymmetry and boundaries"

Mourad.pdf

16:30 Coffee break

28 A. Tomasiello, "On the stability of non-supersymmetric string vacua"

tomasiello-sns-apr25.pdf

29 P. Townsend, "The Extreme D3-Brane"

Townsend-Pisa-Talk.pdf

30 I. Valenzuela, "Supersymmetry breaking on DGKT domain walls"

Valenzuela-pisa.pdf

31 A. Hebecker, "On Stringy de Sitter Vacua"

Hebecker.pdf

Saturday, 5 April

32 CHAIR - E: TRINCHERINI

33 V. Mukhanov, "Modern Cosmology: facts, myths and misconceptions"

01_Mukhanov.pdf

34 T. Weigand, "Bottom-up Constraints on Quantum Gravity"

02_Weigand.pdf

35 A. Westphal, "Uplifts in the Penumbra: Features of the Moduli Potential just before Infinity”

03_Westphal.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

36 G. Pimentel, "Theory and Phenomenology of Cosmological Correlators"

04_Pimentel.pdf

37 CHAIR - R. BARBIERI

38 M. Aspelmeyer, "Quantum signatures of gravity in the lab: how to avoid the appearance of a classical world in gravity experiments?”

05_Aspelmeyer.pdf

39 F. Januschek, "Axion Searches"

AxionSearches_Januschek_v3.pdf

40 M. Kado, "Direct searches at colliders, status and perspectives”

08_Kado.pdf

41 G. Losurdo, "Ground based GW detectors: status and perspectives"

09_losurdo_v2.pdf

16:30 Coffee break

42 A. Melchiorri, "The H0 puzzle"

10_Melchiorri(1).pdf

43 P. Natoli, "The CMB landscape for the next 25 years"

11_Natoli.pdf

44 K. Schaeffner, "Dark matter direct detection, what's next?"

12_Schaeffner.pdf

45 Conclusion

20:30 Dinner