`SO(10) meets LHC'

Abstract: In terms of physics results, 2012 has been an exciting year. 
In July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations have discovered a new 
particle that is consistent with the Standard Model Higgs boson. At the 
same time, the LHC has pushed the lower limits for supersymmetric particles
to new heights, and this has contributed to the anxiety in the physics
community that SUSY, if realized in nature, may not be "natural" after
all. Complementary to these "direct" searches for new physics, the
LHCb experiment has presented in November 2012 the first evidence for
the rare decay B_s -> mu+ mu- which strongly constrains supersymmetric
models with large tanbeta. However, the new results have not been
limited to collider searches. In early 2012, the Daya Bay and Reno
collaborations have measured a "large" neutrino mixing angle theta13
of about 9 degrees, thereby strongly disfavoring the tribimaximal
mixing scenario which has been a paradigm in neutrino physics for the
last decade. Also, the Xenon100 experiment has started to probe
regions of the SUSY parameter space which are "preferred" by many
models. In my talk, I will explore the consequences of these
experimental results on generic SO(10) models with Yukawa unification
in general, and on the so-called Dermisek-Raby (DR) model in
particular. After motivating why we might expect a grand unified gauge
group at some larger energy scale, I will introduce the DR-model and
discuss how well it fits current data in light of the recent
experimental results. I will conclude with predictions of the DR model
that are testable at the LHC.