Building the Standard Model on a D3‐brane

In this talk, I will motivate and apply a bottom‐up approach to string phenomenology, which aims to construct the Standard Model as a decoupled world‐volume theory on a D3‐brane. I describe a concrete proposal for such a construction, obtained in a recent paper with Martijn Wijnholt, based on a single probe D3‐brane on a partial resolution of a del Pezzo 8 singularity.