GPPU Seminar

Date

15:00-17:00, March 08th, 2018

Place

Room 745, Science Complex B (H-03) map

Abstract

The aim of the talk is to present a brief overview of String theory with emphasis on the so called "string phenomenology", namely, the subfield that attempts to make contact with particle physics. As a motivation we will start by exposing some of the many striking achievements of the Standard model of fundamental interactions as well as some of its limitations and the need to go beyond it. We will introduce some string theory basics through a discussion of perturbative closed bosonic string and comment on the different the different, consistent, superstrings. D-branes and some rough ideas about dualities and nonperturbative effects will be addressed. In sum, we intend to present some developments, open questions and an outlook of string theory.

Point

GSP 1