** < The XVI Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC02) > ** Dear Colleagues; The XVI Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC02) will be held in Osaka, Japan, from September 30 to October 4, 2002. This is the one in the series of conferences of PANIC followed the one at Uppsala(1999). In this conference we discuss current experimental and theoretical studies of Particles and Nuclei. The first circular and relevant information are given in our WEB site: http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/~panic02/ Sincerely yours. Hiroshi Toki RCNP Osaka University. Kenichi Imai Department of Physics, Kyoto University Co-Chairpersons of PANIC02 Tadafumi Kishimoto Department of Physics, Osaka University Scientific Secretary