The Challenges of Flavour Physics

Abstract

The open problems and the most recent developments in flavour physics are briefly reviewed. Particular attention is devoted to the current "anomalies" in the CKM picture and their possible interpretation in beyond-the-Standard-Model frameworks.

Comments: 13 pages, plenary talk at ICHEP 2010 (Paris, July 22-28, 2010). V2: A few typos corrected and a few refs added