String Model Building

Abstract

In this talk I review some recent progress in heterotic and F theory model building. I then consider work in progress attempting to find the F theory dual to a class of heterotic orbifold models which come quite close to the MSSM.

Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures, plenary talk submitted for the proceedings of SUSY 2009, June 5 - 10, Northeastern University, Boston, MA