HET- seminar: Andre Lukas

Speaker:  Andre Lukas

Title: String Model Building

Abstract: I review the status of (heterotic) string model building and the attempts to obtain the standard model of particle physics from string theory. This leads to a prediction for the number of standard models contained within string theory which I present. In the second half of the talk, I discuss some of the required mathematical tools, specifically in relation to vector bundles and their cohomology. I will show how the experience from string model building leads to a surprising and new mathematical conjecture for bundle cohomology and how techniques from machine learning might be used to understand the emerging structure