Qaisar Shafi: Quest for Unification

Name: Qaisar Shafi: Quest for Unification
Start: 2021-04-22T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-04-22T15:45:00+02:00
Location: Zoom

Thursday 22 Apr 2021, 15:00 → 15:45 Europe/Ljubljana

https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (Zoom)

https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09

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Description

Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) provide a compelling framework for unifying the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions. I will review gauge and Yukawa unification, dark matter, proton decay, topological defects and primordial gravity waves in supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric GUTs. Some implications of merging grand unification and the weak gravity conjecture will be briefly discussed.