The session titled Progress in Magnetic Fusion Energy Research: 50 Years of International Collaboration and Future Prospects Symposium was organized by Miklos Porkolab (MIT) and co-organized by Barrie Ripin (Research Applied, Bethesda, MD). The following talks are scheduled:

Fusion Research: 50 Years of International Scientific Collaboration
Evgeny P. Velikhov, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation

Fusion Power, and Who Needs It? An Updated Assessment
Predhiman Kaw, Institute of Plasma Research, Bhat, India

US International Collaboration in Fusion Research and Participation in the ITER Project
Raymond Fonck, Associate Director, DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, US DOE, Washington, DC USA

Progress in Fusion Research Via the International Tokamak Physics Activity: A Collaboration Paradigm
Ron Stambaugh, General Atomics, San Diego, CA

Advances in Technology To Realize Fusion Energy in the International Context
Kathryn McCarthy, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID

Strengthening and Accelerating the Development of Fusion Energy: An International Challenge
Chris Llewellyn Smith, Culham Science Center, UKAEA, Culham, Oxon, United Kingdom

The session titled High-Powered Lasers: Fusion Ignition and Concomitant Scientific Opportunities was organized by Richard Boyd and Karl van Bibber (LLNL). The following talks are scheduled:

Basics of Inertial Confinement Fusion
John Lindl (LLNL)

OMEGA Extended Performance Laser System Project
Robert McCrory, University of Rochester

National Ignition Facility
Edward Moses (LLNL)

Fast Ignition Realizationn Experiment Project
Hiroshi Azechi, Osaka University

High-Power Laser for Energy Research Project
Mike Dunne, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

High Energy Density Science with High-Powered Lasers
Raymond Jeanloz, UC Berkeley