Session 1BC. Opening Plenary Session.

Opening Remarks

M.K. Craddock (UBC/TRIUMF)

1BC002 LEP2: Present and Future Performance and Limitations

S. Myers (CERN)

Linear Collider Research and Development: World Status

B. Richter (SLAC)

1BC004 First Commissioning of SPring-8

H. Kamitsubo (JAERI-RIKEN SPring-8 Project Team, Hyogo, Japan)

1BC005 Laser Accelerators: Experiments, Computations and Prospects

C. Joshi (Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA)