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)
Ritsumeikan University (Epoch Ritsumei 21)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 17, 2007
Dec 18, 2007
Dec 19, 2007
AM
8:00 AM
registration (until 9:00 AM)
9:00 AM
Plenary Talks (until 12:30 PM)
9:00 AM Welcome to Ritsumeikan University  
9:05 AM Scope of Workshop and Organization questions - Prof. Takeshi Fukuyama (Ritsumeikan University)  
9:15 AM --- break ---
9:20 AM Does the extra dimension rescue the SO(10) GUT? - Prof. Takeshi Fukuyama (Ritsumeikan University)  
Slides
10:10 AM Review of phenomenological models - Dr Koichi Matsuda (Tsinghua University)  
Slides
10:30 AM --- break ---
11:00 AM Discrete Gauge Symmetries and Proton Stability in grand unified theories - Prof. Rabindra. N. Mohapatra (University of Maryland)  
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11:50 AM B-aniti-B mixing and lepton flavor violation in supersymmetric grand unified models - Dr Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)  
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12:10 PM Unparticle Dark Matter - Dr Tatsuru Kikuchi (KEK)  
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9:00 AM
Plenary Talks (until 12:20 PM)
9:00 AM Family Symmetry and GUTs - Prof. Steve. F. King (University of Southampton)  
Slides
9:50 AM Proton Decay and Flavor Violating Thresholds in SO(10) Models - Dr Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)  
Slides
10:40 AM --- break ---
11:10 AM String compactification and unification of forces - Prof. Jihn. E. Kim (Seoul National University)  
Slides
12:00 PM Three family GUT-like models from heterotic string - Mr Kei-Jiro Takahash (Kyoto University)  
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9:00 AM
Plenary Talks (until 12:40 PM)
9:00 AM Probing Unification Scale Physics at TeV-scale Collider Experiments - Prof. 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 - Dr Toshifumi Yamashita (Osaka University)  
Slides
10:10 AM A three Site Higgsless Model - Dr Masafumi Kurachi (YITP, Kyoto University)  
Slides
10:30 AM --- break ---
11:00 AM SUSY and Cosmology -- inflation, gravitino, and axion - Prof. Masahiro Kawasaki (ICRR, University of Tokyo)  
Slides
11:50 AM Inflation and Unification - Prof. Qaisar Shafi (Bartol Research Institute and Delaware University)  
Slides
PM
12:30 PM
Lunch time break (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Plenary Talks (until 6:20 PM)
2:00 PM Differentiating Neutrino Models on the Basis of the Reactor Angle and Lepton Flavor Violation - Prof. Carl. H. Albright (Northern Illinois University and Fermilab)  
Slides
2:50 PM Nucleon sigma term from lattice QCD - Prof. Tetsuya Onogi (YITP, Kyoto University)  
Slides
3:40 PM --- break ---
4:10 PM Proton decay in SO(10) with stabilized doublet-triplet splitting - Prof. Kaladi. S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)  
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5:00 PM New Physics in Colliders - Dr Nobuchika Okada (KEK)  
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5:50 PM How to Evade a NO-GO Theorem in Flavor Symmetries - Prof. Yoshio Koide (Osaka University)  
Slides
6:20 PM
Welcome drink (until 8:00 PM)
12:20 PM
Lunch time break (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Plenary Talks (until 6:30 PM)
2:00 PM CP and SUSY breaking and E6 GUT - Prof. Nobuhiro Maekawa (Nagoya University)  
Slides
2:50 PM Scalar non-degeneracy and flavor unification - Mr Kentaro Kojima (Kyusyu University)  
Slides
3:10 PM --- break ---
3:40 PM Gauge-Higgs Unification - Prof. Yutaka Hosotani (Osaka University)  
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4:30 PM Towards a Realistic Grand Gauge-Higgs Unification - Dr Nobuhito Maru (Kobe University)  
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4:50 PM Search for a realistic orbifold grand unification - Prof. Yoshiharu Kawamura (Shinshu University)  
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5:40 PM Building a model by coset space dimensional reduction using 10 dimensional coset spaces - Mr Takaaki Nomura (Saitama University)  
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6:00 PM Gauge unification in 5-D SU(5) model with orbifold breaking of GUT symmetry - Prof. Biswajoy Brahmachari (Vidyasagae Evening College)  
Slides
6:30 PM
Welcome Banquet (until 8:30 PM)
12:40 PM --- End of the workshop ---