FROM SYMMETRY TO SUPERSYMMETRY
This is a write-up of the first lecture in the 1999 Technion Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered on March 10, 1999. The draft of the write-up was prepared by Dmitry Gangardt from the tape recording. The lecture was first published in the Yuri Golfand Memorial Volume The Many Faces of the Superworld (World Scientific, Singapore, 2000), page 85.
Thank you for the invitation and your kind introduction. It is a pleasure to be here, and this for many reasons. Let me mention one explicitly. This is the place where Golfand worked during his last years as a member of this faculty and I would like to dedicate this lecture to his memory. As you know, he was one of the founders of supersymmetry…