  With myriads of detection events from a prospective Galactic core-collapse
supernova, current and future neutrino detectors will be able to sample
detailed, time-dependent neutrino fluxes and spectra. This offers enormous
possibilities for inferring supernova physics from the various phases of the
neutrino signal from the neutronization burst through the accretion and early
explosion phase to the cooling phase. The signal will constrain the time
evolution of bulk parameters of the young proto-neutron star like its mass and
radius as well as the structure of the progenitor, probe multi-dimensional
phenomena in the supernova core, and constrain thedynamics of the early
explosion phase. Aside from further astrophysical implications, supernova
neutrinos may also shed further light on the properties of matter at
supranuclear densities and on open problems in particle physics.
