Supersymmetry reviewed from the past to the future

The DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, hosted the 10th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY02) in June 2002, providing a forum for discussing the present status and future developments of supersymmetry (SUSY). In the week-long meeting organized by Pran Nath of Northeastern University, US, and Peter Zerwas of DESY - theoretical ideas, analyses of experimental data, the expectations for physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the proposed tera-electronvolt range electron-positron linear colliders were on the agenda. A lively and exciting atmosphere prevailed, with established practitioners exchanging standard and not-so-standard views on the evolution of particle physics with enthusiastic youngsters. The excitement had its roots in the fascinating prospect of addressing fundamental problems of physics in the new generation of accelerators, and in the well-founded hope of hearing about long- awaited breakthroughs that would answer many of the outstanding questions.