Summary and Outlook

A little over a year ago I gave the summary talk at SUSY-95 in Paris. It was quite a dreadful experience. I came to the Conference with nothing in my hands, sat through all the talks but one, preparing my transparencies at night, skipping all social events. Very tired, I ended trying to summarize every talk, even the one which, not only I had missed, but also, as I learned later, had been cancelled. . . This is why, this time, I decided for a compromise, taking advantage of the fact that I was also asked to provide an outlook. I came with a number of prepared transparencies, yet sat through all plenary talks so that I could add something “on-line”. The result is for you to judge: probably, the outlook side of the story somewhat overshadows the summary side: I apologize in advance for having skipped over many important new results presented at the Conference, in particular over those on new detectors[1] and on future accelerators[2], subjects which are far from my own expertise. Fortunately, you will find all the missing stuff in the preceding 27 plenary talks!