Finding higher-dimensional supergravity solutions

by Dr Eoin O Colgain (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

Monday 7 Mar 2011, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

A-304 (Colaba Campus)

We review various techniques for finding solutions in ten and eleven-dimensional supergravity. In particular, we focus on G-structures, consistent truncations and Non-Abelian T-duality, the latter of which is only now being understood in a supergravity setting.