Supersymmetry

Professor at Université Paris-Sud until 2002.Chairman of the European Research Group (Euro-GDR) on Supersymmetry from 1997 to2004.Professor at Université Paris 7, "AstroParticule et cosmologie" (APC) laboratory, and Director of APC laboratory since 2005.

• 1. The problems of the Standard Model ; 2. The singular role of supersymmetry ; 3. Basic supermultiplets ; 4. The supersymmetry algebra and its representations ; 5. The minimal supersymmetric model ; 6. Supergravity ; 7. Phenomenology of supersymmetric models: supersymmetry at the quantum level ; 8. Dynamical breaking. Duality. ; 9. Supersymmetric grand unification ; 10. An overview of string theory and string models ; 11. Supersymmetry and the early universe ; 12. The challenges of supersymmetry ; A. A review of the Standard Model and of various notions of quantum field theory ; B. Spinors ; C. Superfields ; D. An introduction to cosmology ; E. Renormalization group equations

Binetruy provides an excellent bullet point summary of the problems that supersymmetry could solve.