High Energy Physics

Neutrinos are the big unknown in Particle Physics. Since their very beginning they behaved strangely. However, in the last decade experiments were able to solve some of their secrets. The talk will review the current experimental status of neutrino experiments and give an outlook on future activities.

I will discuss phenomenological aspects on N=1, four-dimensional Type IIB string theory compactifications with all moduli stabilised. In particular, I will review a class of compactifications with exponentially large volumes of the Calabi-Yau manifold and derive explicit formulae for bulk and D3/D7 moduli masses. Then I will show what patterns of soft supersymmetry breaking terms can arise after renormalisation group running to the weak scale.