Weekly Schedule

The regular activities of the Swampland Initiative are:

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
Swampland Seminar
11.00 am – 12.00pm
J368
Lunch
12.00pm
J368
String Lunch
12.00pm – 1.00 pm
J450
Swampland Group Lunch
12.00pm – 1.00pm
J368
Department Coffee
3.30pm
J450
Department Coffee
3.30pm
J450
Department Coffee
3.30pm
J450
Department Coffee
3.30pm
J450
Department Coffee
3.30pm
J450

Seminar Schedule — Spring 2025

The Swampland Seminars take place every week on Monday at 11am in J368 unless indicated otherwise.

Swampland Seminar — 01/27/2025Hector Parra de Freitas
Swampland Seminar — 02/03/2025 Thomas van Riet (Leuven)
02/10/2025No Swampland SeminarThe Lotus and the Swampland School & Conference
02/17/2025 No Swampland Seminar — Presidents day
Swampland Seminar — 02/24/2025 Emilian Dudas (Paris)
Swampland Seminar — 03/03/2025 Niccolo Cribiori (Leuven)
Swampland Seminar — 03/10/2025 Matilda Delgado (Munich+Harvard)
03/17/2025 No Swampland Seminar — Spring Break
Swampland Seminar — 03/24/2025 Ethan Torres (CERN)
Swampland Seminar — 03/31/2025Alberto Castellano (UChicago)
04/07/2025No Swampland SeminarStrings & Geometry 2025
Swampland Seminar — 04/14/2025 Miguel Montero (CSIC) & Irene Valenzuela (UAM)
Swampland Seminar — 04/21/2025Markus Dierigl (CERN)
Swampland Seminar — 04/28/2025Dieter Lüst (Munich)
Swampland Seminar — 05/05/2025Max Wiesner (Hamburg)
Organizers: Naomi Gendler, Damian van de Heisteeg, Amineh Mohseni, Hector Parra de Freitas, and Kai Xu.

Seminar Schedule — Fall 2024

The Swampland Seminars take place every week on Monday at 11am in J453 unless indicated otherwise.

Swampland Seminar — 09/09/2024Victoria Venken (Oxford)
Swampland Seminar — 09/16/2024 Rafael Alvarez-Garcia (Northeastern)
Swampland Seminar — 09/23/2024Muldrow Etheredge (UMass Amherst)
Swampland Seminar — 09/27/2024 Keith Dienes (Arizona)
Swampland Seminar — 09/30/2024 Steve Abel (Durham)
Swampland Seminar — 10/07/2024 Severin Lüst (Montpellier)
10/14/2024 No Swampland Seminar — Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Swampland Seminar — 10/21/2024 Jonathan Heckman (UPenn)
Swampland Seminar — 10/28/2024 José Calderón-Infante (CERN)
Swampland Seminar — 11/04/2024Ivano Basile (LMU Munich)
11/11/2024No Swampland Seminar — Veterans Day
Swampland Seminar — 11/18/2024 Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech)
Swampland Seminar — 11/25/2024Hee-Cheol Kim (Pohang)
Swampland Seminar — 12/02/2024Timo Weigand (Hamburg)
Organizers: Naomi Gendler, Damian van de Heisteeg, Amineh Mohseni, Hector Parra de Freitas, and Kai Xu.
SWAMPLAND LUNCH DISCUSSIONS

The Swampland Lunch Discussions take place every week on Wednesday at 12pm – 1pm in J368. During the first 30 minutes of these meetings there is an open discussion of recent Swampland paper which is followed by an informal talk by a group member or visitor.

Swampland Discussion — 1/31/2025Start-up discussion (60 minutes)
Swampland Discussion — 2/7/2025
Swampland Discussion — 2/14/2025
Swampland Discussion — 2/21/2025
Swampland Discussion — 2/28/2025
Swampland Discussion — 3/7/2025
Swampland Discussion — 3/14/2025
Swampland Discussion — 3/21/2025
Swampland Discussion — 3/28/2025
Swampland Discussion — 4/4/2025
Swampland Discussion — 4/11/2025
Swampland Discussion — 4/18/2025
Swampland Discussion — 4/25/2025
If you would like to give a talk during one of our meetings, please fill in your name in our spreadsheet, or contact Naomi Gendler, Damian van de Heisteeg, Amineh Mohseni, Hector Parra de Freitas, or Kai Xu.

Related Seminar Series

  • Independently of the Swampland Initiative there will be an online Swampland seminar series jointly organized by the Swampland groups at CERN, IFT Madrid and Harvard. The talks take place biweekly on Tuesdays at 11am which we attend jointly from J453.
  • In previous years the seminar series has been hosted by the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. For these titles and abstracts please see the CMSA website.