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Conventional magnets used in high‐energy physics and fusion research consume huge quantities of power. Hope has been raised by the recent discovery of high‐field superconductivity that these power requirements may be substantially relieved through the use of high‐field dissipationless magnets. The author, formerly a particle physicist, now works in the field of superconductivity at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

The use of shock tubes in the study of high‐temperature phenomena and fast chemical reactions has created a research area with problems of mutual concern to physicists and to chemists. The symposium summarized here (for which no formal publication of proceedings is planned) was held under the sponsorship of the United States Army Research Office in Durham, N. C. E. F. Greene, the author of this report, is professor of chemistry at Brown University.