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### 17.11.2016 (Thursday)

#### Recent Advances in Heterotic Moduli

Regular Seminar Eirik Eik Svanes (Paris, LPTHE)

 at: 13:00 ICroom H503 abstract: I will discuss recent advances in addressing the heterotic moduli problem in six and seven dimensions. To map out the reduction to a lower dimensional effective theory, and in a quest to complete our understanding of the generically torsional geometries that appear, it is important to understand the moduli of these geometries. I will briefly review the infinitesimal moduli space in six dimensions, and comment on some recent advances in understanding its geometric properties. I will then explain how a similar story is emerging in seven dimensional compactifications on more exotic manifolds with G2-structure, giving hope that similar tools can be applied to understand moduli in other areas of string theory, with possible applications to phenomenology and AdS/CFT. If time, I will comment on some recent advances is studying finite deformations and obstructions of the moduli space.