The goal of the ICC program is "to advance and broaden fusion science and related plasma science and to explore alternate approaches." This year's meeting "is for presentation of results and ideas about concepts that might make large steps towards practical fusion power, complementing the important feasibility steps of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and the National Ignition Facility (NIF)."

Contact: Tom Jarboe (jarboe@aa.washington.edu)

The proceedings of the 2007 ICC Workshop, held at College Park, Maryland, have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Fusion Energy (Springer Publications). The issue, assembled by guest editor Simon Woodruff, is Volume 27, Number 1/2, June 2008. It can be purchased from Springer (journals-ny@springer.com). The papers are also available online at http://www.springerlink.com