CPT

Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna

Abundant sets of internal spaces for string theory
Speaker:Harald Skarke (TU Wien)
Abstract:String model building usually relies on compactification on a Calabi-Yau (CY)threefold or involves a construction known as F-theory which combines the data of the internal space and of some background fields into those of a CY fourfold.The most fertile construction method for CY manifolds comes from a branch of algebraic geometry known as toric geometry,where families of CY n-folds are associated to(n+1)- dimensional polytopes that have a certain property called reflexivity. I will explain the concepts introduced above.Then I will outline how we managed to classify all 476,800,776 reflexive 4-polytopes almost 20 years ago,thereby creating what is still the world's largest list of CY threefolds.Finally I will report on recent work on the classification of a particular class of reflexive 5-polytopes(there are 322,383,760,930)which resulted in the largest existing database for CY fourfolds.
Date: Tue, 30.04.2019
Time: 13:45
Duration: 60 min
Location:Fakultät für Physik, Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock
Contact:S. Fredenhagen, D. Grumiller

Quasi Transverse Momentum Distributions: Connecting Experiment and Lattice QCD
Speaker:Iain Stewart (MIT)
Abstract:im Rahmen des Teilchenphysikseminars
Date: Tue, 30.04.2019
Time: 16:15
Duration: 60 min
Location:Fakultät für Physik, Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock
Contact:A. Hoang, S. Plätzer, M. Procura

Linear stability for the Kerr spacetime
Speaker:Lars Andersson (AEI, Golm)
Abstract:The black hole stability problem, i.e. problem of proving dynamical stability of the Kerr family of rotating black hole spacetimes, is one of the major open problems in general relativity. Linearized stability is an important step toward solving the black hole stability problem. In this talk, based on the recent paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03859, joint with Bäckdahl, Blue, and Ma, I will describe our proof of linearized stability, and explain the role of the special geometry of the Kerr spacetime in the stability problem.
Date: Thu, 02.05.2019
Time: 14:00
Duration: 60 min
Location:Arbeitsgruppe Gravitation, Währinger Strasse 17, Raum 218, 2. Stock, 1090 Wien
Contact:P.T. Chrusciel, D. Fajman