The IAEA Advisory Group Meeting on Cross-FieldThermal Conduction and Transport was held in Kiev,Ukrainian SSR, 21 to 25 November 1977. At theMeeting, the present status and prospects for understandingtransport in magnetically confined plasmaswere discussed. The Meeting was convened on theinitiative of the International Fusion ResearchCouncil of the IAEA and organized by the Institutefor Nuclear Research of the Ukrainian Academy ofSciences. Twenty-two participants from eight countries(ten from USA, three from UK, three from France,two from Japan and one each from FRG, Belgium,Netherlands and Sweden) came to Kiev to meet withfourteen participants and twenty observers from theUSSR.