TPPC weekly seminar (in-person): Joe Conlon - "String Theory and the First Half of the Universe"

Wednesday 11 Oct 2023, 12:30 → 14:00 Europe/London

Strand Building, S7.06

Speaker: Joe Conlon 

Title: String Theory and the  First Half of the Universe

Abstract: In the standard cosmology, the universe is radiation dominated from shortly after the end of inflation. String cosmologies motivate substantial modifications from this paradigm, including long epochs of kination, trackers and moduli domination which can last until just before BBN. I describe these cosmologies, the physics associated to them, their embedding into the Large Volume Scenario and applications to particle physics.