Current Developments in Mathematics, 2002

These are the proceedings of the joint MIT-Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) seminar on current developments in mathematics held in 2002. The organizing committee for the seminar consisted of distinguished mathematicians from both institutions: B. Mazur, W. Schmid, and S.T. Yau from Harvard, and D. Jerison, T. Mrowka, and R. Stanley from MIT. This year, the seminar was dedicated to Professor Wilfried Schmid and Professor George Lusztig. The 2002 speakers included Albert Bressan, Mark Haiman, Richard Hain, Stephen Kudla, Yair Minsky, John Morgan, Leslie Saper, Kari Vilonen, and David Vogan.