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I would like to present a concise review of where we stand in particle physics today. First I will discuss QCD, then the electroweak sector and finally the motivations and the avenues for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start operation in November 2007. The present phase is characterized by very hard work, in order to complete the machine and experiments installation and commissioning, but also by great expectations.

We briefly review the theoretical background, the computational techniques and the phenomenological predictions made possible by Lattice Gauge Theories (LGT) studies of the strong interactions.

Three years have passed since the BELLE discovery of the (3872), and there are still (at least) two competing interpretations of this particle, which resembles a charmonium but behaves in a dramatic different way from it. Is a molecule of two mesons or a compact four-quark state? Are these two pictures really resolvable?

Artificial neutrino beams had been first introduced in high energy physics at Brookhaven in the 60’s with the classical experiment that led to the discovery of the two neutrino families []. The first neutrino beam setup as we know today was realized at CERN in the 70’s, and led to another milestone in h.e.p.: the discovery of the weak neutral currents []. Since then neutrino beams had been widely used to measure the electroweak parameters, structure functions, neutrino cross sections etc.

Present status and future perspectives of astroparticle experiments are reviewed. Possible strategies for the next decade are also briefly outlined in particular for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics searches.

The assessment of the future of HEP starts from what the field has achieved so far; the last fifty years have seen an exceptional number of discoveries whose focal point can be well represented by the Standard Model. In fact, instead of the many dozens of different elements that characterize the macroscopic world of the chemical elements, the HEP field has reached a remarkable degree of synthesis with the Standard Model, capable to describe the entire Universe with an handful of elementary particles and forces. Unfortunately we now know that this wonderful scheme describes only less than 5% of the known Universe, the remaining 95% being attributed to something that today generically we call “Dark Energy” and “Dark Matter”. And is the understanding of the existence of this large area where the map still reports and that we have to describe in terms of particles and interactions that justifies the strong belief that HEP has a very interesting future.

The results of the electroweak precision tests have been recently updated and are nearly finalized. Along with the measurement of the and from the Tevatron and LEP, and other data from older experiments, they provide a set of very precise constraints to be compared with the Standard Model (SM). The short summary is that the agreement with the SM is excellent and there are no hints of new physics that emerge from the data. In this paper we’ll review the latest results of Standard Model parameters and test from low energy experiment up to hadron collider searches. More details can be found in the specific contributions to the SM session of this conference also published here.

A lively parallel session on physics beyond the Standard Model was organized during IFAE 06, with interesting presentations on both the theoretical and experimental side. Still in 2006, an appropriate title for the session continues to be: “new physics without new physics”. In this edition we tried to focus the attention on the preparation for LHC: within a few years its results will hopefully allow removing the second part of the title, or maybe the whole session. We outline in this contribution the status of the field.

In the last decade, flavour physics has witnessed unprecedented experimental and theoretical progress, opening the era of precision flavour tests of the Standard Model (SM). The advent of factories, with the measurements of the angles of the Unitarity Triangle (UT), has opened up the possibility of the simultaneous determination of SM and New Physics (NP) parameters in the flavour sector. Detailed reviews of recent theoretical and experimental results can be found in the proceedings of this conference [], and so will not be repeated here. On the experimental side, we will focus on the very recent results on oscillations by the CDF collaboration. We will then briefly present the impact of the present experimental data on the SM and on several NP scenarios.