Desperately Seeking the Standard Model

Abstract

In the mid eighties string phenomenology started. Since then, its main objective, the search of the standard model, has not been accomplished yet. In this talk, on the ocassion of the 2nd International Conference on String Phenomenology in 2003, I will review this crucial issue.

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures. The complete postscript file, with high quality figures,is available at http://particulas.ft.uam.es/carlos/state-of-the-art.html