In particular, 
mathematical and physical tools developed by Taylor and collaborators
have recently led to new insights into the global space of Calabi-Yau
  manifolds used for string compactification, and provide an approach
  to characterizing the behavior of "generic"

Slides from a recent presentation on some of this work at an F-theory
  workshop in Munich can be found
<a href="http://ctp.lns.mit.edu/wati/website/Munich-flat">here</a>