Seminar series
Date
Tue, 13 May 2025
13:00
Location
L2
Speaker
Andrei Constantin
Organisation
Oxford

I will outline some recent progress in identifying realistic models of particle physics in heterotic string theory, supported by several mathematical and computational advancements which include: analytic expressions for bundle valued cohomology dimensions on complex projective varieties, heuristic methods of discrete optimisation such as reinforcement learning and genetic algorithms, as well as efficient neural-network approaches for the computation of Ricci-flat metrics on Calabi-Yau manifolds, hermitian Yang-Mills connections on holomorphic vector bundles and bundle valued harmonic forms. I will present a proof of concept computation of quark masses in a string model that recovers the exact standard model spectrum and discuss several other models that can accommodate the entire range of flavour parameters observed in the standard model. 


 

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