Summary Talk of the Conference on the Sigma Resonance * )

This report summarizes the most important results presented at the recent conference held at the Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, devoted to the recently confirmed light σ resonance. Remarkably, all speakers at this meeting took the light σ for granted and many mass and width estimations near 500 MeV were presented. We emphasize that if the light and broad σ is accepted as a true resonance it explains many basic problems of low energy hadronic physics in a simple way, especially if the linear sigma model (LσM) is used as an approximate effective low energy theory.