The Eighth International Conference on Plasma-Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices was held in Jülich, Federal Republic of Germany and was organised and sponsored by Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH. The meeting was attended. by nearly 300 scientists who presented about 180 papers including 17 invited papers. This series of conferences, which started in 1974, provides a major bienniel forum for research in the pure and applied disciplines of surface and plasma physics. The first few meetings in this series were concerned mainly with fundamental surface studies, but in the more recent meetings the emphasis has shifted progressively towards in-situ measurements in fusion devices and their interpretation in terms of plasma physics. This trend was continued in the present meeting. The majority of papers dealt with the plasma boundary in tokamaks. Only a few papers were concerned with other confinement systems or with fundamental processes. This report is intended as a short survey of the conference for readers who are not necessarily specialists in this field. It must inevitably be highly selective of the many excellent papers which were presented. For more detailed information readers are referred to the conference proceedings, which, as for earlier meetings in this series, will be published as a special volurre of the Journal of Nuclear Materials. There will be a separate review on the Plasma Boundary Theory Meeting which was held in Augustusburg during the week before the PSI Conference.