Event
High Energy Theory seminar: "Black Holes to Algebraic Curves: Mathematical Consequences of the Weak Gravity Conjecture"
Tom Rudelius (Institute for Advanced Study)
The Weak Gravity Conjecture holds that in any consistent theory of quantum gravity, gravity must be the weakest force. This simple proposition has surprisingly nontrivial consequences for physics, which in the case of supersymmetric string/M-theory compactifications lead to nontrivial geometric consequences for Calabi-Yau manifolds. In this talk will describe these conjectured geometric consequences in detail, and show how they are realized in concrete examples.