Charm Physics and the Poor Sleeper's Impatience

Abstract

After a short review of the theoretical tools available to describe heavy flavour physics I sketch the present profile of the weak dynamics of charm hadrons with respect to lifetimes, oscillations and CP violation. I argue that comprehensive studies of charm decays provide novel portals to New Physics and suggest some benchmark figures for desirable sensitivities.

Comments: 16 pages, LATEX, no figures, Invited talk given at the 4th International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation, Ise, Japan, Feb. 19 - 23, 2001