Second IAEA Technical Meeting on "Theory of Plasmas Instabilities -

1. It is an honour, in representing the International Atomic Energy Agency, to open the Second IAEA Technical Meeting on "Theory of Plasmas Instabilities - Transport, Stability and their interaction" 2 March – 4 March 2005 Trieste, Italy ICTP co-organized by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

2. Acknowledges I like to take this opportunity to thank the International Advisory Committee for their work in the evaluation of abstracts and preparation of the programme. In particular I like to thank the Chair of the IAC, Taik Hahm, for the very good coordination between the IAC work and the Agency and ICTP requests. I also like to thank the local organizers Brian Stewart and his assistant, Mrs. Ave Lusenti, for taking care of all the host activities, construction of the web page, the intense emails exchange with participants and to make sure that participants can have a successful meeting and enjoy the beauty of this place.

3. The first meeting was held in 9 - 12 April 2002 at Kloster Seeon, Germany. By the number of participants here present we can certainly conclude that was with good opportunity that, following advise from the IFRC, the Agency has introduced this topic in the Fusion TM’s. • We have 49 participants representing 21 countries • The meeting is organized in 8 sessions addressing four main topics: • Improved Confinement • Turbulence and Non-Linear Instabilities • Energetic Particle Physics • Interaction of Macroscopic Instabilities and Transport Process • The meeting ends with a summary session

4. The contributions are distributed by • 6 Overview presentations • 22 Invited presentations • 23 Posters • The summary of the meeting will be submitted for publication in Nuclear Fusion. • Summaries provide a very important tool in helping the Agency to plan its activities in the different topics of Fusion. It gives a record of the main outputs of the meeting and will provide in course of time a history of the progress in the different topics • Summaries make also possible to publish a short overview of the presentations which will not appear in the proceedings giving therefore a concise but full coverage of the meeting.

5. Where is Fusion in the IAEA? DG 7 Departements Department of Nuclear Aplications (5 Divisions) Division of Physics and Chemical Sciences Fusion Accelerators (4 sections) Demining Research Reactors Physics Section Nuclear Instr.

6. 2005 IAEA Technical Meetings on Fusion Theory of Plasmas Instabilities, IAEA/ICTP, March, Trieste ERCH Physics and Technology for ITER, May, Como Negative Ion Based Neutral Beam Injectors, May, Padova First Generation of Fusion Power Plant, July, Vienna Control, Data Acquisition and Remote participation, July, Budapest H-mode Physics and Transport Barriers, September., St. Petersburg Spherical Tori, October, St. Petersburg Innovative Concepts and Theory of Stellarators, October, Madrid Energetic Particles, November, Takayama Research Using Small Fusion Devices, December, Mexico ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Plasma Physics: Capacity Building in Plasma Applications and Diagnostic Techniques, March, Triest

7. I like to whish you all a pleasant and interesting meeting and hope that at the end we all take a bit more than we brought in…