Seminar series
Date
Mon, 22 Nov 2010
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Sakura Schafer-Nameki
Organisation
Kings College London
String theory phenomenology generically suffers from either too much flexibility (and lack of predictability) or from the a high specialization to case by case studies. I will discuss how F-theory GUT model building manages to get around these pitfalls, in particular, I will explain, how to systematically include global string consistency conditions, which are independent of the specific compactification, and which come with the benefit of highly constraining the class of GUT models that can arise from F-theory.