| Preface | |
| List of Participants | |
| Hyades white dwarfs: basic data and mass-radius relations | p. 1 |
| The luminosity function of cool degenerates | p. 7 |
| The luminosity function of massive white dwarfs | p. 15 |
| The luminosity function of white dwarfs: a study of the selected area 94 | p. 23 |
| Influence of crystallisation on the luminosity function of white dwarfs | p. 31 |
| White dwarfs from the Edinburgh-Cape survey | p. 39 |
| White dwarfs from the Hamburg Schmidt survey | p. 47 |
| A few new faint white dwarfs | p. 55 |
| Transition from central stars to white dwarfs | p. 59 |
| PG 1159 stars and related objects | p. 67 |
| Progenitors of sdB stars: single stars? | p. 77 |
| Peculiar binaries and born-again red giants among the nuclei of planetary nebulae | p. 85 |
| Subdwarf B-stars and binarity | p. 91 |
| White dwarf central stars of old planetary nebulae | p. 99 |
| The merging of white dwarfs | p. 107 |
| Importance of the crystallisation of minor elements on the cooling history of white dwarfs | p. 115 |
| Equation of state revisited | p. 127 |
| Coulomb interactions in the equation of state | p. 133 |
| Axion cooling of white dwarfs | p. 139 |
| Photospheric composition and structure in DA white dwarfs | p. 147 |
| The X-ray luminosity function of DA white dwarfs | p. 155 |
| Observations of hot white dwarfs with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope | p. 163 |
| Direct observations of EUV opacity sources in the hot, DA white dwarf G191-B2B | p. 171 |
| A first analysis of ROSAT pointed observations of two DA white dwarfs | p. 177 |
| White dwarfs as probes of neutral winds in A stars | p. 185 |
| Early white dwarf results from EUVE | p. 191 |
| Metal line blanketing in non-LTE model atmospheres | p. 205 |
| New results for cool magnetic white dwarfs | p. 213 |
| Stratified helium-carbon layers with radiation pressure in hot high-gravity stars | p. 221 |
| Macroscopic flux of spinning photons in hot layers of high gravity stars | p. 229 |
| Lyman alpha in IUE spectra of DA white dwarfs | p. 237 |
| On the atmospheric composition of cool white dwarfs | p. 245 |
| Are there any hydrogen-rich, cool white dwarfs? | p. 253 |
| Diffusion of heavy elements in white dwarfs with radiative forces and mass loss | p. 261 |
| Stark broadening in white dwarf atmospheres | p. 267 |
| Compton heating in the atmospheres of hot white dwarfs | p. 273 |
| Atmospheres with inhomogeneous surface abundances and their relevance to the DAB white dwarf GD 323 | p. 281 |
| NLTE analysis of extremely helium rich subdwarf O stars | p. 287 |
| Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf stars | p. 295 |
| UV spectroscopy of PG1159-035 with HST, and a prospective view of future EUVE observations | p. 303 |
| Hubble Space Telescope FOS observations of G191-B2B and KPD0005+5106 | p. 311 |
| The death of the EUV opacity problem | p. 317 |
| Temperatures, gravities and masses for a sample of bright white dwarfs | p. 325 |
| Analysis of three magnetic DA white dwarfs | p. 333 |
| The H-alpha forest of the magnetic white dwarf PG1015+015 | p. 339 |
| Feige 55: a newly-identified DAO white dwarf with a metal-rich UV spectrum and a clue to the properties of DAO stars | p. 347 |
| The hot DAB degenerates in the MCT survey | p. 353 |
| White dwarfs in cataclysmic binaries | p. 359 |
| Cataclysmic variable white dwarfs: a progress report | p. 365 |
| Accretion on to magnetic white dwarfs: a new approach | p. 371 |
| The accreting magnetic white dwarf in MR Ser | p. 381 |
| AM CVn - A helium cataclysmic? | p. 387 |
| Spectra of interacting white dwarf binary systems | p. 395 |
| A population model for cataclysmic binaries | p. 403 |
| Determination of white dwarf masses in polars | p. 411 |
| Spectrophotometry of common proper motion binaries containing white dwarf components | p. 419 |
| Photometry of white dwarfs in wide binaries | p. 427 |
| EUV/X-ray selection of white dwarfs in binaries | p. 433 |
| A search for double degenerates | p. 441 |
| The physics of white dwarf pulsations | p. 449 |
| Some seismological results for PG1159-035 | p. 459 |
| The convective outer layers of a pulsating white dwarf | p. 467 |
| First numerical simulations of convection at the surface of a ZZ Ceti white dwarf | p. 471 |
| GD165: another case for a pulsating DA white dwarf with a thick hydrogen layer? | p. 479 |
| A new tool for white dwarf seismology and an application to the ZZ Ceti star G117-B15A | p. 485 |
| Asteroseismology of planetary nuclei | p. 491 |
| The Whole Earth Telescope as an instrument | p. 499 |
| WET observations of the DAV GD154 | p. 507 |
| Whole Earth Telescope observations of the DBV white dwarf PG1115+158: preliminary results | p. 515 |
| Bi-site observations of the ZZ Ceti PG2303+243 | p. 523 |
| 1H0857-242 during outburst | p. 531 |
| Further photometric observations of the cataclysmic variable PG1012-029 | p. 537 |
| Photoelectric observations of white dwarfs at the Bologna Observatory | p. 543 |
| The pancake photometer - for WET campaigns at Mt. Maidanak, Uzbekistan | p. 549 |
| Workshop Summary | p. 555 |
| Index | p. 561 |
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