BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The unification of electro-weak and strong interactions in a non-s upersymmetric model DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T132000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T134000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261011T061315Z UID:indico-contribution-331-2913@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Marco Garofalo (University of edinburgh)\nWe present an example of an extension of the Standard Model where unification of str ong and electroweak interactions occurs at a level comparable to that occu rring in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. The key feature of thi s model is that\, besides the elementary particles of the SM a new set of particles subject to a superstrong interaction at the scale of few TeV\, i s present and coupled (with peculiar hypercharge assignments) to the SM pa rticles.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2913/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2913/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SO(10) from M Theory: Symmetry Breaking and Neutrino Masses DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T134000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261011T061315Z UID:indico-contribution-331-2880@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Miguel Crispim Romao (University of Southampton)\nIn this communication we will show how M Theory compactified on G2 manifolds provide all the ingredients for model building and a yet-much-unexplored territory. In doing so we will present the so-called G2-MSSM\, an SU(5) cl ass of models with the MSSM spectrum\, before presenting the most recent d evelopments on SO(10) SUSY GUTs arising from M Theory on G2 manifolds. We will show that SO(10) SUSY GUTs from M Theory imperatively require a TeV s cale extra vector-like family and light gauginos\, both providing a striki ng smoking gun at reach of the LHC. Furthermore\, the details and challeng es poseed by the breaking of the rank is closely related with the spectrum of\n neutrino masses\, which will be explicitly discussed.\n\nhttps://in dico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2880/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2880/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Constraining Non-Commutative Gravity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T144000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261011T061315Z UID:indico-contribution-331-2852@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Adrian Manning (Univ Sydney)\nMotivated by some stri ng theory considerations the classical 4-dimensional spacetime may actuall y be quantum and exhibit a canonical non-commutative structure. We used re cent observation of gravitational waves by LIGO Collaboration to constrain t the scale of spacetime noncommutativity.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/ev ent/2534/contributions/2852/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2852/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum structure of the minimal calculable unified model DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T142000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261011T061315Z UID:indico-contribution-331-2839@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Timon Mede (IPNP Charles University in Prague)\nTo t ake advantage of the expected sensitivity increase in the next generation experiments searching for proton decay (Hyper-K\, DUNE\, ...)\, the precis ion of proton lifetime predictions has to improve significantly\, which im plies the need to go to the next-to-leading order calculation. That means considering the 2-loop running of all the couplings with the use of the 1- loop threshold effects that account for the actual (split) spectrum. One o f the largest uncertainties involved at this level of accuracy is due to t he unknown Planck scale effects which introduce shifts in the matching con dition that cause an uncertainty of a several orders of magnitude\nin the predicted scale of gauge coupling unification and hence in the masses of t he heavy fields mediating the proton decay.\n\nWe focused on the minimal r enormalizable non-supersymmetric SO(10) model with the 45 and 126 Higgses\ , where the Planck suppressed gauge kinetic form operators are absent due to the antisymmetry of the adjoint representation. Such scenario could pro vide a realistic breaking pattern and account for the neutrino masses. It has long been known that its tree-level spectrum suffers from tachyonicity \, but by using the effective potential approach we managed to show that a t the quantum level those masses receive substantial corrections and can b ecome non-tachyonic. Establishing that the spectrum of the model is realis tic is only the first step towards providing the first ever NLO computatio n of the corresponding proton lifetime in the future. I shall discuss our current results\, comment on certain limits and mention some of the diffic ulties we have encountered.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contri butions/2839/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2839/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:F-Theory model building DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T142000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T144000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261011T061315Z UID:indico-contribution-331-2778@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Andrew Meadowcroft (University of Southampton)\nF-Th eory model building\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/ 2778/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2778/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flavour structure of grand unifications and other sources of uncer tainties in proton lifetime estimates DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160526T132000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261011T061315Z UID:indico-contribution-331-2767@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Helena Kolesova (Czech Technical University in Pragu e)\nGrand Unified Theories predict baryon instability and\, for most of th e models\, the proton decay widths are the only quantities potentially mea surable in experiments. However\, the calculations of proton lifetime usua lly involve severe theoretical uncertainties due to\, e.g.\, perturbative techniques employed or difficulties in estimating the large-scale threshol d effects. Similarly\, the proximity of the Planck scale may bring in cons iderable errors. We are evaluating the sizes of these errors focusing on t he effects of the Planck suppressed effective operators on the flavour str ucture of the theory which is another important input for the proton lifet ime computations. We shall discuss several schemes in which specific decay channels are found to exhibit particular robustness with respect to these issues.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2767/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/2534/contributions/2767/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR