Guest lecturers for this month

Chris Beasley (Harvard)  - "F-theory model building I", September 30
                                        "F-theory model building II", October 2 (Thursday)


Peng Gao (Toronto U.) - "Abelian fibrations, String junctions and Flux-Geometry duality", October 7

Abstract: We expose the details of a new duality between warped flux compactifications and Calabi-Yau spaces in a concrete type IIB orientifold example with N=2 supersymmetry. We constructed the Calabi-Yau geometry which matches all expectations on its topological and geometrical properties based on the dual flux background. Besides the geometric construction, we also offer a description based on 'string junctions' and monodromy matrices.