A Stringy Appreciation of Axions for Inflationary Purposes
Wieland Staessens (UAM, Spain)

Their characteristic features make axions popular candidates for realisations of large field inflationary models. In combination with their abundant emergence from string theory compactifications, one might hope to construct a fully consistent model for large field inflation in a UV complete theory. In this talk we focus on two distinct avenues: axion monodromy and axion mixing scenarios, and discuss their perks and peeves.