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SUMMARY:Public lecture "The physics garage: From string theory to pandemic
 s"
DTSTART:20211019T160000Z
DTEND:20211019T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20260415T035300Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Francesco Sannino (Director of the Centre for Cosmol
 ogy and Particle Physics CP3-Origins\, Denmark\, and Chair of Physics at t
 he Scuola Superiore Meridionale at Federico II University\, Italy)\n\nThe 
 Standard Model of particle interactions is an extremely successful theory 
 of nature. It describes the electric\, magnetic\, weak and strong forces o
 f nature. It fails however to take into account dark matter and can’t ev
 en explain why matter wins over antimatter. Last but not least the Standar
 d Model does not take into account quantum gravity. It must therefore be e
 xtended. But what are the possible constraints coming from embedding the e
 xtension of the Standard Model in a consistent theory of quantum gravity? 
 We will use string theory\, as quantum gravity template\, to deduce a numb
 er of conjectures and conditions on the type of extensions allowed for the
  Standard Model. This is the Swampland program. What is even more exciting
  is that the same physics underlying the fundamental forces of nature can 
 be used to rationalize our understanding of infectious disease spreading a
 nd even help rationalizing virus mutations with impact on several realms o
 f scientific enquiry.\n\nhttps://indico.fysik.lu.se/event/2156/
LOCATION:Lundmarksalen (Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics)
URL:https://indico.fysik.lu.se/event/2156/
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