Workshop on Grand Unified Theories: Phenomenology and Cosmology (GUTPC) (8-12 April 2024)

Workshop on Grand Unified Theories: Phenomenology and Cosmology (GUTPC)

from Monday, 8 April 2024 (09:30)to Friday, 12 April 2024 (17:00)

Monday, 8 April 2024

14:00

14:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, 9 April 2024

08:30

08:30 - 09:00

09:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Session 1 - formal theory
Session 1 - formal theory
09:30 - 11:30
Contributions

09:30 F-Theory GUTs: Prospects and Challenges-George Leontaris(Ioannina U)

10:00 Susy breaking in a UV finite GUT-Borut Bajc(J Stefan Inst)

10:30 Modular Flavor Symmetry in Heterotic $E_6$ GUT-Hajime Otsuka(Kyushu University)

11:00 Journey Towards Asymptotically Safe GUT-Zhi-Wei Wang(UESTC)
11:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:30 - 14:00
14:00 Session 2 - particle phenomenology
Session 2 - particle phenomenology
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Proton Decay and SU(5) Grand Unification-Jason Evans(TDLI)

14:30 Investigating the BNV dinucleon to dilepton decays in the EFT-Xiao-Dong Ma(SCNU)

14:50 On the Standard Model quark/lepton masses in an SU(8) theory-宁陈(Nankai University)

15:10 Overview of Proton Decay Search Experiments-Akira Takenaka(Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 3 - cosmology
Session 3 - cosmology
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Dark matter from sterile-sterile neutrino mixing-Pasquale Di Bari(Southampton U)

16:30 Axion dark matter and the cosmic dipole problem-成成韩(Sun Yat-sen University)

16:50 Unification and Composite Asymmetric Dark Matter-Takumi Kuwahara(Peking University)

17:10 Phase transition catalyzed by primordial black holes-Zhenmin Zeng(Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
17:30 Reception
Reception
17:30 - 20:05
Wednesday, 10 April 2024

09:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Session 4 - gravitational waves
Session 4 - gravitational waves
09:30 - 11:30
Contributions

09:30 Proton Decay and Gravitational Waves as Complementary Tests of Grand Unification-Jessica Turner(IPPP Durham)

10:00 Cosmic superstrings vs gauge strings: gravitational wave signals-Danny Marfatia(Hawaii U)

10:30 Revisiting Metastable Cosmic String Breaking-Satoshi Shirai(Kavli IPMU)

11:00 Gravitational Waves from Early Universe Symmetry Breakings-Huaike Guo(UCAS (ICTP-AP))
11:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:30 - 14:00
14:00 Session 5 - flavour problem
Session 5 - flavour problem
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Modular Grand Unification Theories-Gui-Jun Ding(University of Science and Technology of China)

14:30 Phenomenological tests of supersymmetric SO(10) grand unified theories-Bowen Fu(TDLI)

14:50 Yukawa coupling unification in SO(10) GUTs and the origin of Yukawa hierarchy of third-generation fermions-Ruiwen Ouyang(HIAS, UCAS)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 6 - model-building
Session 6 - model-building
16:00 - 17:40
Contributions

16:00 The Three-Family N=1 Supersymmetric Pati-Salam Models from Type IIA String Theory on T^6/(Z_2 ×Z_2) Orientifold with Intersecting D6-Branes-Tianjun Li(ITP)

16:30 Theory and phenomenology of Flavoured Trinification-Roman Pasechnik(Lund U)

17:00 Exploring GUT origins of SMEFT operators-Ming-Lei Xiao(Sun Yat-sen University)

17:20 A phenomenological study of SU(5) with Type-I+III seesaw-Gaoxiang Fang(HIAS, UCAS)
Thursday, 11 April 2024

09:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Session 7 - GUT and beyond
Session 7 - GUT and beyond
09:30 - 12:00
Contributions

09:30 Hyperunified Theory-Yue-Liang Wu(UCAS)

10:30 From first order phase transitions to Gravitational waves-Peter Athron(NJNU)

11:00 Modular invariance and the QCD theta angle-Arsenii Titov(University of Pisa and INFN)
12:00 Lunch and excursion to the West Lake
Lunch and excursion to the West Lake
12:00 - 17:00

18:00 Banquet
Banquet
18:00 - 21:00
Friday, 12 April 2024