| Dedication | |
| Preface | |
| List of Participants | |
| Introductory Remarks | p. 3 |
| Origin of Binary Systems | p. 9 |
| Disks in the Pre-Main Sequence Binary Environment | p. 21 |
| Detached Main Sequence Binaries: A Laboratory for the Study of Stellar Structure | p. 31 |
| Interaction Beyond the Main Sequence: One Recipe? | p. 41 |
| Zeta Aurigae Type Binaries | p. 51 |
| W UMa Binaries | p. 61 |
| The RS Canum Venaticorum Stars | p. 71 |
| Cataclysmic Binaries: Optical and Geometrical Thickness of Disks and the Visibility of the Primary Component | p. 83 |
| X-Ray Binaries and Related Systems | p. 91 |
| The Barium Stars | p. 103 |
| Binary and Other Recycled Pulsars | p. 115 |
| Wolf-Rayet Stars | p. 123 |
| Symbiotic Binary Stars | p. 137 |
| Binary Be Stars and Be Binaries | p. 147 |
| Binary S and MS Stars | p. 157 |
| Aspects of Mass Loss and Angular Momentum Loss in Binaries Containing Cool Components | p. 167 |
| How Does One Detect An Accretion Disk? | p. 175 |
| Wind Accretion by Compact Objects: The "Flip-Flop" Instability | p. 185 |
| Accretion Disk Instabilities | p. 195 |
| X-Ray Novae and Related Systems | p. 205 |
| Outburst Phenomena in X-Ray Binaries | p. 215 |
| Type IA Supernovae | p. 225 |
| Y Cygni? | p. 235 |
| Binary Star Research: Where We Are Now and Future Prospects | p. 245 |
| Unsolved Major Problems of Interacting Binaries - A Panel Discussion | p. 255 |
| Circularization and Synchronization Times in Detached Main-Sequence Eclipsing Binaries | p. 269 |
| A Study of Ultraviolet Spectra of Delta Sagittae | p. 273 |
| Recent Results on the Apsidal Motion Test in Eclipsing Binaries | p. 277 |
| Photometric Analysis in Detached Close Binaries with Eccentric Orbits. The Case of RX Her | p. 281 |
| First Results of Continuous IUE Observations of Algol | p. 285 |
| Resonance Between Pulsation Modes Due to Tidal Perturbation | p. 289 |
| A New Catalogue of Semidetached Algol-Type Binaries with Well Determined Absolute Dimensions | p. 295 |
| Evolutionary Sequences for Binary Stars in the Mass Range 9 to 40 M | p. 299 |
| Photometric Analysis of Wide and Narrow H[alpha] Band Observations of R Canis Majoris | p. 303 |
| Irregular Period Variations of Eclipsing Binaries | p. 307 |
| Eclipsing Binaries in Multiple Star Systems | p. 315 |
| The Orbital Parameters and the IUE Spectrum of the Single-Lined Spectroscopic Binary HD 698 | p. 319 |
| Investigation of the Eclipsing Binary AN Tauri | p. 321 |
| A Spectrographic Study of the Interacting Eclipsing Binary RY Scuti: An Episode in the Rapid Mass Loss Stage or a Protoplanetary Nebula? | p. 325 |
| Last Minute Results from CTIO Observations | p. 327 |
| H-Alpha and O I 7774 Spectroscopy of Algol-Type Binaries | p. 331 |
| Mass Transfer Characterization in Close Binary Stars | p. 337 |
| Mass Exchange Via Pulsational Dumping from and F Supergiant | p. 341 |
| HR 2142: A Semi-Detached Interacting Binary? | p. 345 |
| A Search for White Dwarf Companions of Be Stars | p. 347 |
| Observations of CNO Processed Matter in Massive Interacting Binary Systems | p. 351 |
| Carbon Depletion in Case B Mass Transfer Algol-Type Binaries | p. 355 |
| Colliding Stellar Winds in Close Binary Systems | p. 359 |
| Wind Driven Mass Transfer in Interacting Binaries | p. 363 |
| The Massive Binary SV Centauri | p. 369 |
| An Ultraviolet Study of the Near-Contact Binaries | p. 373 |
| The Spotted Contact Binary SS Arietis - Spectroscopy and Infrared Photometry | p. 379 |
| Analysis of Period Changes of YY Eridani | p. 383 |
| Test of the Optimization Techniques for the Photometric Analysis of Contact Binaries | p. 387 |
| Circulation in Contact Binary Systems | p. 391 |
| The Cool Algols | p. 395 |
| Atmospheric Eclipsing Binary Zeta Aurigae in the 1987-1988 Eclipse | p. 399 |
| FK Comae and the Evolution of Close Binaries | p. 403 |
| Orbital Elements of a Sample of S Stars: Testing the Barium - S Evolutionary Connection | p. 407 |
| HD 46407: The First Eclipsing-Binary Barium Star | p. 411 |
| Aspects of the Angular Momentum Loss Problem for Cool Close Binary Systems | p. 415 |
| MWC 560: Its Spectroscopic and Photometric Development in 1990 | p. 421 |
| A Model for R Aqr from HST | p. 425 |
| The Outburst of Symbiotic Novae | p. 429 |
| Bolometric Light Curves of Symbiotic Novae | p. 435 |
| Outbursts by Low-Mass White Dwarfs in Symbiotic Variables | p. 439 |
| White Light Photometry of the Cataclysmic Variable BZ Camelopardalis | p. 441 |
| Note on LMC X-4 | p. 445 |
| Behavior of Matter Near the Outer Region of the Accretion Disk in Her X-1 | p. 449 |
| A 3-D Hydrodynamical Simulation of Wind Accretion | p. 453 |
| Irradiation-Driven Mass Transfer in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries | p. 457 |
| Interacting Binary White Dwarf Stars | p. 461 |
| On the Masses and on the Mass Transfer in the Interactive Binary SS 433 | p. 465 |
| Tidal Circulation Among the Close Binaries in M67 | p. 471 |
| Can Evolution in Close Binaries Account for the Blue Stragglers in M67? | p. 473 |
| The Blue Straggler F190: A Case for Mass Transfer | p. 475 |
| Constraints on the Cessation of Eclipses in SS Lacertae and Their Implications for System Evolution | p. 479 |
| The Eclipsing Binaries in NGC 5466 and Implications for Close Binary Evolution | p. 483 |
| The Contact Binary H235 in the Open Cluster NGC 752 | p. 487 |
| Tidal Circularization Among the Close Binaries in the Halo | p. 491 |
| Massive Close Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds | p. 497 |
| Absolute Dimensions and Distance Modulus for HV 2226 in the SMC | p. 501 |
| Observations of Two Binary Systems with 04f Type Components | p. 505 |
| CCD Photometry of the Eclipsing Binary HV 2274 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | p. 509 |
| Close Binary Nuclei of Planetary Nebulae | p. 517 |
| Supernovae in Massive Interacting Binaries | p. 523 |
| Reversing the Supernova Order in Massive Binaries | p. 527 |
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