Building Chiral Flux Vacua
    Speaker: 
  
  
  
      Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin–Madison  
Date and Time: 
Monday, March 21, 2005 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract: 
Moduli stabilization and supersymmetry breaking are among the outstanding problems in string phenomenology. Type IIB compactification with fluxes has shown to provide a concrete framework to analyze these two problems simultaneously in a controlled stringy manner. To explore quantitative issues of this scenario, however, it is essential to construct some explicit models where the Standard Model is embedded. In this talk, I will describe the first examples of such MSSM flux vacua and discuss issues involved in these constructions.

