Conveners
PST-friendly: Session U3
- Simone Pagan Griso (LBNL)
Description
PST-friendly timezone
Nobuchika Okada
(University of Alabama)
02/03/2022, 22:20
Howard Baer
(University of Oklahoma)
02/03/2022, 22:40
Our current understanding of string theory is that the 4-d laws of physics are determined by the topological properties of the compactified manifold. There may be 10^500 (or many more) possibilities, and indeed this gives at present our only understanding of the tiny yet non-zero value of the cosmological constant. Arguments suggest the landscape of string vacua favor large soft SUSY breaking...