The Seventh International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics was held on the University of California Santa Cruz campus in Santa Cruz, California, from September 10 to 13, 2002. The previous meetings in this series of workshops devoted to Tau lepton and associated neutrino physics were held in Orsay (France, 1990), Columbus (USA, 1992), Montreux (Switzerland, 1994), Estes Park (USA, 1996), Santander (Spain, 1998) and Victoria (Canada, 2000). New Tau results from high energy machines, low energy machines and b-factories were presented as well as recent results from g-2 and neutrino oscillation experiments. In addition, there were a number of review talks with analysis of future prospects for the field.

The II International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics was held in Ohio, USA in September 1992. Its purpose is to gather the experts on tau lepton physics to examine the current understanding of the tau lepton physics and to assess future prospects. A particular emphasis of the Workshop was a detailed examination of the '1-prong problem': the discrepancy between the inclusive measurement of one-charged-particle decay branching ratio and the sum of the exclusive decays. The Workshop also stimulated new ideas on tests of the Standard Model using the third generation lepton and assessed the future prospects of the lepton physics.