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Preface Acknowledgments What is an Electroon? (M J Perry) The What and Why of Moduli (J Conlon) Perspective on the Weakly Coupled Heterotic String (M K Gaillard) Geography of Fields in Extra Dimensions: String Theory Lessons for Particle Physics (H P Nilles & P K S Vaudrevange) The String Landscape: A Personal Perspective (K R Dienes) Mathematics for String Phenomenology (M R Douglas) The String Theory Landscape (A N Schellekens) Local String Models and Moduli Stabilization (F Quevedo) F-Theory: From Geometry to Phenomenology (S Schaefer-Nameki) Compactified String Theories - Generic Predictions for Particle Physics (P Kumar) How Could (Should) We Make Contact Between String/M Theory and Our Four-Dimensional World? (G Kane) String Cosmology - Large-Field Inflation in String Theory (A Westphal) Dark Energy in String Theory (B Greene & G Shiu) Cosmological SUSY Breaking and the Pyramid Scheme (T Banks)

The predecessors discovery of supersymmetry in four dimensions local supersymmetry (supergravity) the pioneers the historical perspective.

Understanding Higgs physics is necessary to complete the standard model, and to learn how to extend it and improve its foundations. This book brings together current work in the field. Some chapters emphasize theoretical questions, and some connections to other areas of physics.