The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Atomic and Molecular Processes in Controlled TheI'IllOnuclear Fusion" was held at Chateau de Bonas, Castera-Verduzan, Gel's, France, from 13th to 24th August 1979, and this volume contains the text of the invited lectures. The Institute was supported by the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO, and additional support was received from EURATOM and the United States National Science Foundation. The Institute was attended by 88 scientists, all of whom were active research workers in control of thermonuclear plasmas, 01' atomic and molecular physics, 01' both. In addition to the formal lectures, printed in this volume, which were intended to be pedagogic, more than twenty research seminars were given by participants. The first half of the Institute was directed to introducing atomic and molecular theoretical and experimental physicists to the physics of controlled thermonuclear fusion. Most attention was paid to magnetic confinement, and within that field, to tokamaks. MI'.

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1. Atomic Collision Processes in Magnetic Confinement Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Research.- 2. The Relevance of Atomic Processes to Magnetic Confinement and the Concept of a Tokamak Reactor.- 3. General Principles of Magnetic Fusion Confinement.- 4. Atomic Processes Relevant to Energy Balance and Impurity Control in Fusion Reactors.- 5. Wall Processes and Impurity Production due to Hydrogen Species.- 6. Theoretical Methods for Atomic Collisions: A General Survey.- 7. Theoretical Models for Charge Exchange.- 8. Theoretical Methods for Ionization.- 9. Theoretical Studies of Electron Impact Excitation of Positive Ions.- 10. Theory of Recombination Processes.- 11. Some Experimental Aspects of Inelastic Electron-Atom Collisions and Collisions between Charged Particles.- 12. Experiments on Electron Capture and Ionization by Ions.- 13. Experimental Studies of Energy Levels and Oscillator Strengths of Highly Ionized Atoms.- 14. Theoretical Studies of Oscillator Strengths for the Spectroscopy of Hot Plasmas.- 15. Spectroscopy of Highly Ionized Atoms in the Interior of Tokamak Plasma.- 16. Thermalization and Exhaust of Helium in a Future Thermonuclear Reactor: Partly an Atomic Physics Problem.