International Workshop on Grand Unified Theories: Current Status and Future Prospects

Scope of the Workshop: There are many reasons that need the theory beyond the Standard Model. From the observational side, neutrino mass, the existence of Dark Matter, etc. indicate it. From the theoretical side, there are more reasons: the gauge coupling unification, Higgs mass hierarchy, Dark Matters, Baryon number asymmetry etc. Supersymmetric (SUSY) Grand Unified Theories (GUT) are the most promising candidate to satisfy the above mentioned requirements. There are accumulated so far many information from Neutrino Oscillation, Accelerator experiments, and Cosmological Observations. Also Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begin to work this year. So it is very timely to hold the Workshop on GUT in this year. In the usual conferences, GUT is one of the themes and the concentrated discussions were not sufficient. In this Workshop we restrict on GUT in relatively small conference scale , and the concentrated and long-time discussions become possible. In order to realize such atmosphere, we had the program that includes a few but long talks by the leading scientists on this region. They stand either on common ground or on the different stand points. We can enjoy comprehensive and diverse view points.