1. Opening Remarks. - Section I. - 2. Controlled Fusion Soon . - Magnetic Confinement. - 3. Comments on the Feasibility of Achieving Scientific Break-Even with a Plasma Focus Machine. - 4. Self-Colliding Beams as an Alternative Fusion System for D-He3 Reactors. - Inertial Confinement. - 5. Target Physics for Inertial Fusion Energy. - 6. Spherical Pinch Research: Historical Background Achievements and Projections. - Section II. - 7. Perspectives of Advanced Confinement Programs. - Magnetic Confinement. - 8. Present Status of Field-Reversed Configurations. - 9. Ignition Physics and the Ignitor Project. - Other Confinement. - 10. The Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Approach to Fusion Power. - 11. The D-3He Dipole Fusion Reactor. - 12. Open-Ended Magnetic Confinement Systems for Fusion. - 13. Formation Compression and Acceleration of Magnetized Plasmas. - 14. Prospects of Magnetic Electrostatic Plasma Confinement. - Tutorial Talk. - 15. Analysis of the Fusion Breakeven Conditions for D-T Plasmas of Prescribed Temperature Evolution. - Section III. - 16. Progress in Inertial Fusion Research. - Inertial Confinement. - 17. Heavy-Ion Driven Inertial Fusion Energy. - 18. X-Ray Driven Implosions on the Nova Laser. - 19. Present Status and Future Prospects of Laser Fusion Research at Osaka. - 20. Magnetized Target Fusion: An Overview of the Concept. - 21. Thermonuclear Fusion in a Staged Pinch. - 22. Novel Staged Z-Pinch Concept as Super Radiant X-Ray Source for ICF. - Section IV. - 23. Fusion the Competition and the Prospects for Alternative Fusion Concepts. - Magnetic Confinement. - 24. Ideas for Future RFP Experiments. - 25. Dense Z-Pinches for Fusion. - 26. Assessment of Field-Reversed-Configuration Stability. - Other. - 27. Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in 1996. - 28. Experimental Investigation of Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in Mixtures of Hydrogen Isotopes. - 29. Magnetoelectric Toroidal Confinement. - 30. Ball Lightning: What Nature Is Trying to Tell the Fusion Community. - 31. Fusion Implications of Free-Floating Plasmak Magnetoplasmoids. - Section V. - 32. Alternate Fusion Concepts. - Inertial Confinement. - 33. Inertial Fusion Driven by Intense Cluster Ion Beams. - 34. Inertial Fusion Energy: An Approach to Low Maintenance and Cost of Electricity and the Role of the National Ignition Facility Testing the Target Physics. - 35. Magnetized Target Fusion: An Ultrahigh Energy Approach in an Unexplored Parameter Space. - Section VI. - 36. Concluding Remarks. - Section VII. - 37. Report of the Evaluators. - 38. Biographies of Evaluators. - Participants. Language: English