Seminar series
Date
Mon, 24 Nov 2008
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Jock McOrist
Organisation
Chicago
Abstract: I will discuss some recent developments in understanding compactifications of the Heterotic string on Calabi-Yau manifolds. These compactifications are well-described by linear sigma models with (0,2) supersymmetry. I will show how to use these models to compute physical observables, such as genus zero Yukawa couplings, their singularity structure, and dependence on bundle moduli.