Gravity seminar - Bert Vercnocke Seminar
- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 12 March 2015
- Venue:
- 54/5B
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Marco Caldarelli at m.m.caldarelli@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
de Sitter space in supergravity and string theory
The vacuum with a positive cosmological constant, de Sitter spacetime, plays an important role in cosmology. Even so, understanding de Sitter physics within string theory has been quite challenging. I will review some of the difficulties and discuss new approaches of obtaining a positive cosmological constant in supergravity and string theory.
Speaker information
Bert Vercnocke, Amsterdam, Netherlands