Geometry and conformal theories

In this paper, the authors indicate how simplest types of string vacua arise from a class of two dimensional superconformal theories. These superconformal theories are characterized, using the universality of renormalization group flow, by the superpotential. Many questions of phenomenological interest can be answered from the structure of the superpotential alone. These include the number of generations and some of the Yukawa couplings. The material in this lecture can be found in the listed references below