报告题目：Continuous and Discrete Gauge Symmetries in F-Theory
报告时间：2018-05-18 16:00 (星期五)
报告地点：天津大学北洋园校区32楼B140
报告人：Mirjam Cvetic（University of Pennsylvania）

报告摘要：

We present recent developments incompactification of F-theory,which describes a strong coupling regime of string theory. We focus on advancesin constructions of globally consistent F-theory compactificationswith continuous and discrete gauge symmetries and emphasize new insights intoglobal constraints on allowed matter representations. 

报告人简介：Mirjam Cvetic is Fay R. andEugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.Her research encompasses broad thrusts in fundamental theory: gravitationalphysics  in string theory (seminal work on black holes); work at the interfacewith differential and algebraic  geometry (new special holonomy spaces);leading efforts in  string theory compactifications (first supersymmetricintersecting D-brane models and  new D-instanton effects); the study ofparticle physics implications of string theory. She has published over 260 papers,with over 18,000 citations, h-76. She is a Fellow of APS (2001), the Editor ofPhysics Letters B (since 2000), a recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award(2007), an elected Chair of the Advisory Board of the KITP, Santa Barbara(2009-10), and has served on numerous national and international advisorypanels. She has mentored fifteen PhD students and ten post-doctoralresearchers. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland (1984), was apost-doctoral fellow at SLAC, Stanford University (1984-87), and has had aprimary affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania since 1987.