Fusion Power Associates will hold a special Anniversay Meeting and Symposium, October 19-21, 1999, in Washington, DC, celebrating the 20-year anniversary of our founding. Fusion Power Associates was incorporated August 16, 1979 as a non-profit public benefit corporation in the State of California. The first meeting of our Board of Directors was held September 24, 1979 in LaJolla, CA. There were 13 institutional Charter Members. Today, Fusion Power Associates has 28 institutional Members and Affiliates and over 400 Individual Affiliates.

The theme of the October 19-21 Meeting and Symposium will be "Fusion Power for the 21st Century: Technologies for the New Millenium." We intend to discuss the future prospects for fusion science and related technologies, including results from currently-ongoing reviews. These include the Snowmass meeting (FPN98-37), SEAB review (FPN99-22), National Academies review (FPN99-18), and FESAC review (FPN98-31). We will also get updated on current policy views of Congress and the Administration. On the technical side, we will be taking a look at many items, including the status of the National Ignition Facility, inertial fusion energy programs, ITER, magnetic fusion concepts and near-term "spin-off" applications.

The meeting program, in the initial stages of formulation, will consist of a mix of invited and contributed papers. Persons wishing to make a 10 minute contributed presentation should submit a title and brief abstract to Fusion Power Associates (fpa@compuserve.com) no later than July 2.

A block of rooms has been reserved at a rate of $155 per night under the name of Fusion Power Associates at the conference hotel: The Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001. For reservations contact the Hotel at (800)321-3010 before September 18.

The preliminary program and registration materials will be sent to the recipients of Fusion Power Associates Executive Newsletter in the near future. To pre-register, send an email to FPA expressing your intentions and providing us with your mailing address if you think we do not have it. Registration fee for the symposium is $425, payable by check (no credit cards). Non-US checks in equivalent amount of local currency are acceptable.

We hope that all our friends will join us for this celebration.

Prior FPN's are archived at http://aries.ucsd.edu/fpa/