Beyond the desert 1997 : accelerator and non-accelerator approaches : proceedings of the first International Conference on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Castle Ringberg, Germany, 8-14 June 1997

Grand unification and fermion masses supersymmetry non-SUSY formalisms beyond the standard model new physics at colliders non-accelerator experiments phenomenological aspects of superstrings and SUGRA evening lecture on quantum mechanics, superstings and brain functions dark matter, cosmology and early universe fundamental symmetries neutrino oscillations concluding remarks.