Supergravity at 40: Reflections and Perspectives

Abstract

The fortieth anniversary of the original construction of Supergravity provides an opportunity to combine some reminiscences of its early days with an assessment of its impact on the quest for a quantum theory of gravity.

Comments: 27 pages, LaTeX. Based in part on the talk delivered by S. F. at the "Infeld Colloquium and Discrete", in Warsaw, on December 1 2016, and on a joint CERN Courier article. Dedicated to John H. Schwarz on the occasion of his 75-th birthday. Comment and references added