This is a written version of a series of lectures aimed at graduate students
in the field of (theoretical and experimental) high energy physics. The main
topics covered are: (i) The flavor sector of the Standard Model and the
Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of CP violation; (ii) Formalism and theoretical
interpretation of CP violation in meson decays; (iii) K decays; (iv) D decays;
(v) B decays: b -> c c-bar s, b -> s s-bar s, b -> u u-bar d and b -> c u-bar
s, u c-bar s; (vi) CP violation as a probe of new physics and, in particular,
of supersymmetry.Comment: 67 pages, 7 figures; Lectures given at the `Third CERN-CLAF School of
High Energy Physics', Malargue (Argentina) 3/2005, and at the Les Houches
Summer School (Session LXXXIV) on `Particle Physics Beyond the Standard
Model,' Les Houches (France) 8/200