Strings 2010: Schedule of Talks

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The Strings 2010 conference is approaching, with a schedule of talks and a list of prominent speakers available online. While the speaker list includes notable names, many talk titles remain "to be announced" (TBA), leading to uncertainty about the conference's focus areas. Some participants express interest in the proportion of talks related to core superstring theory versus other topics like LHC and applications of string theory. A few titles have been confirmed, including discussions on holographic superconductors and new physics at the LHC. Overall, the anticipation builds as attendees await further details on the scheduled presentations.

Mar 20, 2010

MTd2

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I guess Marcus will really enjoy this talk:

http://mitchell.physics.tamu.edu/Conference/string2010/documents/slides/Dixon.LDNeq8Strings2010.ppt

Dixon says that N=8 SUGRA in 4 dimensions might be in the swampland after all, that is, it is no kind of low energy limit of any type of compactification of any string theory. During the talk you can see that at low loops this theory coincides in many terms but at highest orders, it seems that there is a disagreement between what is obtained from string theory aproximations and direct computations using maximum cut diagrams.

Dixon talks about the possibility that the UV completion might be a punctual theory, not string theory.

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