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7 th Symposium
CURRENT TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL FUSION RESEARCH: A REVIEW

Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 5 - 9 March 2007
A Conference organized under the auspices of Fusion Reactor Technology, Inc.

The objective of this series of Symposia is to assess the benefits, applications, and spin-offs of nuclear fusion research, including both conventional and alternative approaches.

The first Symposium in this series was held in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., on 14-18 November 1994 and Plenum Press published the Proceedings in 1997. A full report of the Symposium appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Fusion Energy, 14 (3), 281-327, 1995. As a continuation of these successful biennial conferences, a second Symposium was held in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., on 10-14 March, 1997. The third, fourth, fifth and 6th Symposium were again held in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. in March 1999, March 2001, March 2003 and March 2005, respectively. The Proceedings of the 2nd and 3rd Symposium have been published by NRC Research Press, while the Proceedings of the 4th and 5th Symposium will be published, again by NRC Research Press, in the year 2005. In the past Symposia, a selected number of scientists, of renowned reputation and stature, were invited to present review papers in their field of interest in fusion research. The gatherings have been international in nature, and many countries were represented. A Panel of Distinguished Scientists and Engineers, which included Drs. Stirling Colgate, Edward Creutz, Arthur Kantrowitz, Richard F. Post, Norman Rostoker (Chairman), Hans J. Schneider-Muntau, and Frederick Seitz, were in charge of commenting on the fusion programs presented at the Symposium, and to provide recommendations with respect to direction, balance, and synergism of the research. Their report for the 1st Symposium appeared in Fusion Technology, 33, 219-231, (1998), as well as in the Proceedings of the Symposium. The Proceedings of the following Symposia also contained the report of the Panel.

A Seventh Symposium is scheduled for 5-9 March 2007. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, Osaka University and Sandia National Laboratory endorse the Symposium. Invited and contributed papers will be part of the Symposium. Invited observers will also be included.

Chairman of the Steering Committee

Emilio Panarella
Fusion Reactor Technology, Inc.
2012 Woodglen Cres.
Ottawa, Ont., K1J 6G4  Canada
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E-mail: editor@physicsessays.com  

International Advisory Board

Bruno Coppi, M.I.T., U.S.A.
Malcolm G. Haines, Imperial College, U.K.
George H. Miley, University of Illinois, U.S.A.
Richard F. Post, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.A.
Liu Shenggang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Kazuo Tanaka, Osaka University, Japan
Guillermo Velarde, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Steering Committee

Michel de Peretti, EPF-Ecole d' Ingenieurs, France
Claude Deutsch, Université Paris XI, France
Thomas J. Dolan (retired). IAEA, Vienna, Austria
Julio Herrera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma, Mexico
Akira Hirose, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
P.I. John, Institute for Plasma Research, India
Ronald C. Kirkpatrick, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.
Xing Zhong Li, Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China
Erick Lindman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.
José Maria Martinez-Val, Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain
Sadao Nakai, Osaka University, Japan
Ivan Cunha Nascimento, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Charles D. Orth, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.A.
Sidney L. Ossakow, Naval Research Laboratory, U.S.A.
Emilio Panarella, (Chairman), FRT, Canada
Hafiz-Ur Rahman, University of California, U.S.A.
Norman Rostoker, University of California, U.S.A.
J. Reece Roth, University of Tennessee, U.S.A.
Kenneth D. Ware, ER2S, Inc., U.S.A