  Particle physics has evolved in the past decade through evaluating the
consequences of experimental measurements as well as exploiting theoretical
tools that permit exploration of new model building and cosmological
possibilities. Particularly due to insights from the AdS/CFT correspondence,
higher-dimensional warped compactifications, in particular, have played a big
role in recent developments by allowing a study of regimes of parameters that
would otherwise be intractable. Similarly, theoretical developments in quantum
gravity benefit from the bigger range of possibilities that can be explored
using warped geometry, allowing for constructions of string vacua with positive
cosmological constant and for the exploration of entanglement and information
transfer in arbitrary dimensions. Puzzles remain in both more
phenomenologically oriented and more theoretically oriented contexts which form
the basis for a rich research program in the future as well.
