Gauguin's questions in particle physics: Where are we coming from? What are we? Where are we going?

Abstract

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.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, plenary talk at the International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2007), Manchester, England, July 200