The overall subject of the Conference, – plasma waves and instabilities – allowed the conference activities to be more or less evenly divided between quite different areas of research and application, e.g. fundamental and/or applied theory of waves and turbulence, including numerical models and methods, small laboratory experiments, plasma waves in space, and fusion-oriented work including tokamaks, pinches, heating and diagnostic experiments. Actually, it seemed that nuclear fusion work was less emphasized than at the first Conference in 1973, a fact that was documented, for instance, by the near-absence of MHD-stability theory. One could also note a certain shift of emphasis from short communications to survey lectures.