Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of unification
  • Gravitation
  • Non-Abelian gauge theory
  • The standard model
  • Anomalies
  • Effective Lagrangians
  • Supersymmetry
  • Grand unification
  • MSSM Lagrangian
  • N=1 supergravity
  • Coupling of supergravity with matter and gauge fields
  • Supergravity grand unification
  • Phenomenology of supergravity grand unification
  • CP violation in supergravity unified theories
  • Proton stability in supergravity unified theories
  • Cosmology, astroparticle physics and SUGRA unification
  • Extended supergravities and supergravities from superstrings
  • Specialized topics
  • The future of unification.