The panel, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University, is composed largely of current and former Government experts on Europe and the military.

The setting was a panel sponsored by the writers' organization PEN, and blasphemy was being quite broadly defined as irreverent or insulting treatment of anything held sacred.

A panel sponsored by the California legislature on Jan. 3 recommended the state not proceed with the sale of $2.7 billion in bonds to start building the 800-mile network, now projected to cost $98.5 billion.

The panel is one of several panels sponsored by the foundation that make recommendations about how to improve treatment for kidney patients.

Charles G. Crane, a communications industry analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities, recalled serving with him on a recent panel sponsored by the Association of National Advertisers.

The panel, sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, is assessing the slide of the city's once predominant position in research and what can be done about that.

So when an investigatory panel sponsored by the United Nations reported last week on the Salvadoran war's worst violence, most of its findings rang familiar.

There's no cut-and-dried answer but the subject will be discussed Dec. 1 at a panel sponsored by the Drama League of New York.

Additionally, the conference included an important panel sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps University (MCU).

A panel sponsored by MySpace.com, the social networking site, drew a standing-room-only crowd, as did another discussion on the influence of literary blogs.