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One in a Billion from Brane Intersection Theory

07/16 2026 Seminar
  • Title One in a Billion from Brane Intersection Theory
  • Speaker Rui Sun (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • Date 4:00 PM, July 16, 2026
  • Venue Conference Room 322, North Building
  • Abstract

    We present a complete survey of intersecting D6-brane Pati--Salam models, where systematic Diophantine solving reduces billions of compactifications to 65 physically distinct vacua across three complementary constructions. This yields a concrete realization of the "one in a billion" paradigm for MSSM-like D-brane statistics. String-scale gauge coupling unification is achieved in all classes via vector-like particles and two-loop RGE evolution.

    Biography

    The speaker’s research focuses on string theory and mathematical physics. She graduated from the Max Planck Institute in 2016, then did a postdoc at Tsinghua University and the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, before joining the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) as an Assistant Professor.

    Inviter: Chun Liu