This is the first volume in a series of books on the general theme of Supersymmetric
Mechanics, which are based on lectures and discussions held in 2005
and 2006 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati. These schools originated
from a discussion among myself, my long-time foreign collaborators,
and my Italian students. We intended to organize these schools as an intense
week of learning around some specific topics reflecting our current and “traditional”
interests. In this sense, the choice of topics was both rather specific
and concrete, allowing us to put together different facets related to the main
focus (provided by Mechanics). The selected topics include Supersymmetry
and Supergravity, Attractor Mechanism, Black Holes, Fluxes, Noncommutative
Mechanics, Super-Hamiltonian Formalism, and Matrix Models.