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, December 17, 2007 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, December 19, 2007 (7:00 PM)

Monday, December 17, 2007

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome to Ritsumeikan University

9:05 AM Scope of Workshop and Organization questions - Takeshi Fukuyama (Ritsumeikan University)

9:20 AM Does the extra dimension rescue the SO(10) GUT? - Takeshi Fukuyama (Ritsumeikan University)

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

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

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

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

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

2:00 PM Differentiating Neutrino Models on the Basis of the Reactor Angle and Lepton Flavor Violation - Carl. H. Albright (Northern Illinois University and Fermilab)

2:50 PM Nucleon sigma term from lattice QCD - Tetsuya Onogi (YITP, Kyoto University)

4:10 PM Proton decay in SO(10) with stabilized doublet-triplet splitting - Kaladi. S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)

5:00 PM New Physics in Colliders - Nobuchika Okada (KEK)

5:50 PM How to Evade a NO-GO Theorem in Flavor Symmetries - Yoshio Koide (Osaka University)
6:20 PM

6:20 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

9:00 AM Family Symmetry and GUTs - Steve. F. King (University of Southampton)

9:50 AM Proton Decay and Flavor Violating Thresholds in SO(10) Models - Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)

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

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

12:20 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

2:00 PM CP and SUSY breaking and E6 GUT - Nobuhiro Maekawa (Nagoya University)

2:50 PM Scalar non-degeneracy and flavor unification - Kentaro Kojima (Kyusyu University)

3:40 PM Gauge-Higgs Unification - Yutaka Hosotani (Osaka University)

4:30 PM Towards a Realistic Grand Gauge-Higgs Unification - Nobuhito Maru (Kobe University)

4:50 PM Search for a realistic orbifold grand unification - Yoshiharu Kawamura (Shinshu University)

5:40 PM Building a model by coset space dimensional reduction using 10 dimensional coset spaces - Takaaki Nomura (Saitama University)

6:00 PM Gauge unification in 5-D SU(5) model with orbifold breaking of GUT symmetry - Biswajoy Brahmachari (Vidyasagae Evening College)
6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Epoch Ritsumei 21
Contributions

9:00 AM 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)

9:50 AM Higgsless breaking of Grand Unification - Toshifumi Yamashita (Osaka University)

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

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

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

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