Name: International Workshop on Grand Unified Theories: Current Status and Future Prospects
Start: 2007-12-17T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2007-12-19T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Ritsumeikan University

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

from Monday, 17 December 2007 (08:00) to Wednesday, 19 December 2007 (19:00)

Monday, 17 December 2007

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

09:00 Welcome to Ritsumeikan University

09:05 Scope of Workshop and Organization questions - Takeshi Fukuyama (Ritsumeikan University)

09:20 Does the extra dimension rescue the SO(10) GUT? - Takeshi Fukuyama (Ritsumeikan University)

10:10 Review of phenomenological models - Koichi Matsuda (Tsinghua University)

11:00 Discrete Gauge Symmetries and Proton Stability in grand unified theories - Rabindra. N. Mohapatra (University of Maryland)

11:50 B-aniti-B mixing and lepton flavor violation in supersymmetric grand unified models - Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)

12:10 Unparticle Dark Matter - Tatsuru Kikuchi (KEK)
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
14:00
14:00 - 18:20
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

14:00 Differentiating Neutrino Models on the Basis of the Reactor Angle and Lepton Flavor Violation - Carl. H. Albright (Northern Illinois University and Fermilab)

14:50 Nucleon sigma term from lattice QCD - Tetsuya Onogi (YITP, Kyoto University)

16:10 Proton decay in SO(10) with stabilized doublet-triplet splitting - Kaladi. S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)

17:00 New Physics in Colliders - Nobuchika Okada (KEK)

17:50 How to Evade a NO-GO Theorem in Flavor Symmetries - Yoshio Koide (Osaka University)
18:20

18:20 - 20:00
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
09:00
09:00 - 12:20
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

09:00 Family Symmetry and GUTs - Steve. F. King (University of Southampton)

09:50 Proton Decay and Flavor Violating Thresholds in SO(10) Models - Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)

11:10 String compactification and unification of forces - Jihn. E. Kim (Seoul National University)

12:00 Three family GUT-like models from heterotic string - Kei-Jiro Takahash (Kyoto University)
12:20

12:20 - 14:00
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
14:00
14:00 - 18:30
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

14:00 CP and SUSY breaking and E6 GUT - Nobuhiro Maekawa (Nagoya University)

14:50 Scalar non-degeneracy and flavor unification - Kentaro Kojima (Kyusyu University)

15:40 Gauge-Higgs Unification - Yutaka Hosotani (Osaka University)

16:30 Towards a Realistic Grand Gauge-Higgs Unification - Nobuhito Maru (Kobe University)

16:50 Search for a realistic orbifold grand unification - Yoshiharu Kawamura (Shinshu University)

17:40 Building a model by coset space dimensional reduction using 10 dimensional coset spaces - Takaaki Nomura (Saitama University)

18:00 Gauge unification in 5-D SU(5) model with orbifold breaking of GUT symmetry - Biswajoy Brahmachari (Vidyasagae Evening College)
18:30

18:30 - 20:30
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
09:00
09:00 - 12:40
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

09:00 Probing Unification Scale Physics at TeV-scale Collider Experiments - Hitoshi Murayama (University of California, Berkeley and Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo)

09:50 Higgsless breaking of Grand Unification - Toshifumi Yamashita (Osaka University)

10:10 A three Site Higgsless Model - Masafumi Kurachi (YITP, Kyoto University)

11:00 SUSY and Cosmology -- inflation, gravitino, and axion - Masahiro Kawasaki (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

11:50 Inflation and Unification - Qaisar Shafi (Bartol Research Institute and Delaware University)
12:40 End of the workshop
End of the workshop
12:40 - 12:40
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21

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