IAIFI Colloquium: Navigating the String Landscape with Machine Learning Techniques

Thomas Harvey, Postdoctoral Fellow at IAIFI
Friday, October 11, 2024, 2:00pm–3:00pm, MIT Cosman Room (6C-442)
String theory is a framework for quantum gravity that seemingly encompasses all necessary features to describe our universe. The study of this theory has yielded significant insights in various domains of physics and mathematics, such as the quantum nature of black holes and the discovery of mirror symmetry. Despite these successes, due to the vast array of possible initial conditions, it remains unclear if we live somewhere in the “string landscape”. In this talk, we present efforts to leverage Reinforcement Learning to navigate this landscape and geometrically engineer quasi-realistic models of particle physics. Furthermore, we explore how recent advances in applying neural networks to numerical geometry have enabled the calculation of previously inaccessible properties of the low-energy theory, particularly Yukawa couplings and quark masses.

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