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)
Ritsumeikan University (Epoch Ritsumei 21)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Dec 2007
18 Dec 2007
19 Dec 2007
AM
08:00
registration (until 09:00) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
09:00
Plenary Talks (until 12:30) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
09:00 Welcome to Ritsumeikan University   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
09:05 Scope of Workshop and Organization questions - Prof. Takeshi Fukuyama (Ritsumeikan University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
09:15 --- break ---
09:20 Does the extra dimension rescue the SO(10) GUT? - Prof. Takeshi Fukuyama (Ritsumeikan University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
10:10 Review of phenomenological models - Dr Koichi Matsuda (Tsinghua University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
10:30 --- break ---
11:00 Discrete Gauge Symmetries and Proton Stability in grand unified theories - Prof. Rabindra. N. Mohapatra (University of Maryland)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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11:50 B-aniti-B mixing and lepton flavor violation in supersymmetric grand unified models - Dr Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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12:10 Unparticle Dark Matter - Dr Tatsuru Kikuchi (KEK)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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09:00
Plenary Talks (until 12:20) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
09:00 Family Symmetry and GUTs - Prof. Steve. F. King (University of Southampton)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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09:50 Proton Decay and Flavor Violating Thresholds in SO(10) Models - Dr Yukihiro Mimura (Texas A&M University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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10:40 --- break ---
11:10 String compactification and unification of forces - Prof. Jihn. E. Kim (Seoul National University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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12:00 Three family GUT-like models from heterotic string - Mr Kei-Jiro Takahash (Kyoto University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
09:00
Plenary Talks (until 12:40) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
09:00 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)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
09:50 Higgsless breaking of Grand Unification - Dr Toshifumi Yamashita (Osaka University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
10:10 A three Site Higgsless Model - Dr Masafumi Kurachi (YITP, Kyoto University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
10:30 --- break ---
11:00 SUSY and Cosmology -- inflation, gravitino, and axion - Prof. Masahiro Kawasaki (ICRR, University of Tokyo)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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11:50 Inflation and Unification - Prof. Qaisar Shafi (Bartol Research Institute and Delaware University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
PM
12:30
Lunch time break (until 14:00) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
14:00
Plenary Talks (until 18:20) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
14:00 Differentiating Neutrino Models on the Basis of the Reactor Angle and Lepton Flavor Violation - Prof. Carl. H. Albright (Northern Illinois University and Fermilab)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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14:50 Nucleon sigma term from lattice QCD - Prof. Tetsuya Onogi (YITP, Kyoto University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
15:40 --- break ---
16:10 Proton decay in SO(10) with stabilized doublet-triplet splitting - Prof. Kaladi. S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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17:00 New Physics in Colliders - Dr Nobuchika Okada (KEK)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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17:50 How to Evade a NO-GO Theorem in Flavor Symmetries - Prof. Yoshio Koide (Osaka University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
18:20
Welcome drink (until 20:00) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
12:20
Lunch time break (until 14:00) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
14:00
Plenary Talks (until 18:30) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
14:00 CP and SUSY breaking and E6 GUT - Prof. Nobuhiro Maekawa (Nagoya University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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14:50 Scalar non-degeneracy and flavor unification - Mr Kentaro Kojima (Kyusyu University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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15:10 --- break ---
15:40 Gauge-Higgs Unification - Prof. Yutaka Hosotani (Osaka University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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16:30 Towards a Realistic Grand Gauge-Higgs Unification - Dr Nobuhito Maru (Kobe University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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16:50 Search for a realistic orbifold grand unification - Prof. Yoshiharu Kawamura (Shinshu University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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17:40 Building a model by coset space dimensional reduction using 10 dimensional coset spaces - Mr Takaaki Nomura (Saitama University)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
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18:00 Gauge unification in 5-D SU(5) model with orbifold breaking of GUT symmetry - Prof. Biswajoy Brahmachari (Vidyasagae Evening College)   (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
Slides
18:30
Welcome Banquet (until 20:30) (Epoch Ritsumei 21)
12:40 --- End of the workshop ---