Things I Wish to Understand.

 Here is a list of things that I do not understand that I wish to learn about in the coming months.

  1. Spinorial formalism in string compactifications.
  2. String field theory, I started on the review by Sen and Zweibach.
  3. Moduli spaces and Riemann surfaces.
  4. Random matrices, JT gravity and topological recursion.
  5. Explicit $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity constructions.
  6. More on Hodge numbers and moduli stabilisation.
  7. Computing superpotential contributions from F-theory.
  8. Explicit F-theory constructions of any sort lolz.
  9. Anything compactifications in heterotic string theory.
  10. AdS/CFT in KKLT AdS construction: what happens when you break SUSY?
  11. Compute pfaffians.
  12. Fully read Ashoke's orientifolds/F-theory limits paper. 
  13. Understand Gopakumar-Vafa invariants.
  14. BPS states, logarithmic corrections, etc.
  15. $\alpha '$ corrections to KKLT/LVS scenarios.
Perhaps it is time to dig into each of these now that it is my summer break.

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