Ten years ago the Sunnner Institute on "Trends in Particle The ory" was held in Bonn. Among other subj ects J. Wess spoke on his work wi th B. ZlDllino on "Fermi - Bose-Supersymmetry". In the meantime this subject has developed into one of the most exciting fields of research and the Bonn Summer Institute (August 20 - August 31 1984) was devoted exclusively to supersymmetry. The main aim of the Summer Institute was to provide a compre hensive introduction for mainly young post-doctoral theoretical physicists to the currently most discussed subjects in supersynnne try and supergravity. The intention was to emphasize the pedagogi cal presentation. The seminars given in addition to the introduc tory lectures treat more specialized subjects and are closer to research reports. Since the topics, ranging fromalgebraic structures to experimental implications do not arrange easily in a one-dimension al array, the lectures are reproduced in alphabetic order of the lec turers. The Summer Institute was made possible by the NATO Advanced Study Programme, additional support was granted by the Bundesmi nisterium für Forschung und Technologie and the Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung of Nordrhein-Westfalen. We gratefully acknowledge their cooperation. It is a pleasure to thank the lecturers and seminar speakers for the effort invested in the presentation of the lectures and in their collaboration in preparing the written notes.

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Ten years ago the Sunnner Institute on "Trends in Particle The­ ory" was held in Bonn. Among other subj ects J. Wess spoke on his work wi th B. ZlDllino on "Fermi - Bose-Supersymmetry". In the meantime this subject has developed into one of the most exciting fields of research and the Bonn Summer Institute (August 20 - August 31 1984) was devoted exclusively to supersymmetry. The main aim of the Summer Institute was to provide a compre­ hensive introduction for mainly young post-doctoral theoretical physicists to the currently most discussed subjects in supersynnne­ try and supergravity. The intention was to emphasize the pedagogi­ cal presentation. The seminars given in addition to the introduc­ tory lectures treat more specialized subjects and are closer to research reports. Since the topics, ranging fromalgebraic structures to experimental implications do not arrange easily in a one-dimension­ al array, the lectures are reproduced in alphabetic order of the lec­ turers. The Summer Institute was made possible by the NATO Advanced Study Programme, additional support was granted by the Bundesmi­ nisterium für Forschung und Technologie and the Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung of Nordrhein-Westfalen. We gratefully acknowledge their cooperation. It is a pleasure to thank the lecturers and seminar speakers for the effort invested in the presentation of the lectures and in their collaboration in preparing the written notes.

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Lectures.- Supersymmetry and Index Theory.- Supersymmetric Sigma Models.- Superstrings.- Supergravity The Basics and Beyond.- d=4 Supergravity from d=11 Conjectures Revisited.- Supersymmetry and Supergravity for Model Builders: General Couplings and Symmetry Breaking.- Supergraphs.- How Can We Decide if Nature is Supersymmetric?.- Supersymmetric Functional Integration Measures.- Selected Topics from the Representation Theory of Lie Superalgebras.- Gravity before Supergravity.- Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories.- Seminars.- On the Non Perturbative Breakdown of Global Supersymmetry.- Supergravity Couplings and Superforms.- Supersymmetry in Nuclear Physics.- Minimal Supersymmetric Models: The Top Quark Mass and the Mass of the Lightest Higgs.- Supergravity Grand Unification.- Towards a Theory of Fermion Masses: A Two-Loop Finite N = 1 Global Susy GUT.- Recent Results in the Renormalization of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories.- Evidence for a Narrow Massive State in the Radiative Decays of the Upsilon.- Disorder, Dimensional Reduction and Supersymmetry in Statistical Mechanics.