The International Vacuum Electronics Conference for 2002 was held in Monterey, California from May 21 - 23. Nearly 400 people attended the conference, which had over 200 presented papers broken into a plenary session, two poster sessions, and 24 oral sessions. After the conference, the chairpersons for each session were asked to write a brief summary of the session they chaired, and this is a compilation of those summaries. The IVEC 2002 committee would like to heartily thank each of the chairpersons who submitted a summary for their contribution. Please enjoy these summaries.

Will Menninger, Dave Whaley, and Monica Blank
IVEC 2002 Publicity and Publications Chairpersons