The 5th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons was held in Vancouver, Canada, June 25th to 29th, 2002. It was the fifth in a series of particle physics meetings started in 1995 in Strasbourg, France centered on the physics of heavy quarks and hyperons. The conference format wass plenary sessions only, and we had 116 participants from 21 countries. BEACH 2004 will be held in Chicago, USA.
Proceedings are now in print and set to apprear in Feb 2003, in Nuclear Physics volume 115 (Proc. Supp.)