Gauguin's questions in particle physics: Where are we coming from? What are we? Where are we going?
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Within particle physics itself, Gauguin's questions may be interpreted as: P1 - What is the status of the Standard Model? P2 - What physics may lie beyond the Standard Model? P3 - What is the `Theory of Everything'? Gauguin's questions may also asked within a cosmological context: C1 - What were the early stages of the Big Bang? C2 - What is the material content of the Universe today? C3 - What is the future of the Universe? In this talk I preview many of the topics to be discussed in the plenary sessions of this conference, highlighting how they bear on these fundamental questions.
16 pages, 11 figures, plenary talk at the International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2007), Manchester, England, July 2007
16 pages, 11 figures, plenary talk at the International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2007), Manchester, England, July 2007