Minimal Flavor Violation

Abstract

If new physics is called upon to explain away fine tunings, like the hierarchy problem, then, we argue, the principle of Minimal Flavor Violation is inescapable. We review the principle and recent extensions to the lepton sector and to Grand-Unified theories.

Comments: Talk presented at the 4th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, December 12-16, 2006, Nagoya, Japan; latex, 4 pp