Theory of plasma instabilities: Transport, stability issues and their interaction. Proceedings of a technical meeting

The 2nd International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Technical Meeting on 'Theory of Plasmas Instabilities: Transport, Stability Issues and Their Interaction' was held in Trieste, Italy, from 2 to 4 March 2005. Forty-nine delegates representing twenty-one countries attended the meeting. The Programme Committee accepted a total of 51 contributions for presentation at the conference. The papers were grouped with respect to the following topics: Improved Confinement, Turbulence and Nonlinear Instabilities, Energetic Particle Physics, and Interaction of Macroscopic Instabilities and Transport Process. These papers were presented in 6 Overview and 22 Invited oral presentations and in 23 Poster displays. A summary session with three presentations was also included in the programme. A set of selected contributions from the Overview and Invited categories were submitted to 'Physics of Plasmas' to appear under the Special Topics: 1. 'Physics of improved confinement, turbulence and nonlinear instabilities' and 2. 'Energetic particle physics, interaction of macroscopic instabilities and transport process'. These proceedings contain manuscripts of the Invited contributions that were not submitted to 'Physics of Plasmas' and the manuscripts of Poster contributions