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.