The International Conference on "Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Nu merics and Applications" was held in CalTech on March 25-30, 2002. The Hyp2002 conference was the ninth meeting in the bi-annual international se ries which became one of the highest quality and most successful conference series in Applied Mathematics. This series originated in 1986 at Saint-Etienne, with an earlier focus on the theoretical aspects of hyperbolic conservation laws. As computers became more powerful in the late eighties, and as the interplay between new models, theory and modern numerical algorithms has gained...