Andrea Fontanella is visiting the String Theory Group at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, this week, and on Monday 26 February he is giving a talk in the String Theory Seminar on “Heterotic near horizon geometries“. An abstract of the talk can be found here. The talk is based on the papers arXiv:1605.05635 and arXiv:1610.09949. Andrea is a final year PhD student working with Jan Gutowski.