| List of participants and observers | |
| Conference photo | |
| Preface | |
| The orbital periods of low-mass X-ray binaries | p. 5 |
| ROSAT - Early results | p. 19 |
| Black holes in binary systems | p. 27 |
| Recent results from GINGA on X-ray binaries: selected topics | p. 37 |
| Z and Atoll sources as a clue to the evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries | p. 49 |
| X-ray diagnostics of accretion disks | p. 61 |
| SIGHT: A scintillation imaging gas-filled hard X-ray telescope | p. 75 |
| Millisecond pulsars in globular clusters | p. 79 |
| Recent observations of recycled pulsars | p. 87 |
| Discovery of two millisecond pulsars at high Galactic latitudes | p. 93 |
| Millisecond pulsars and quiescent LMXBs | p. 99 |
| Continuum observations of recycled pulsars | p. 105 |
| Millisecond pulsar spectra | p. 115 |
| Searching for pulsars in globular clusters: the Parkes/Jodrell Bank surveys | p. 121 |
| Discovery and timing of radio pulsars in globular clusters M13 and M15 | p. 131 |
| A new pulsar-supernova remnant association | p. 149 |
| New pulsar proper motion results from Jodrell Bank | p. 155 |
| The evolution of the optical remnant of Kepler's SN | p. 161 |
| Accretion induced collapse | p. 167 |
| Accretion-induced collapse of white dwarfs | p. 189 |
| Some problems in the theory of isolated pulsars | p. 207 |
| Relativistic shock waves and the excitation of plerions | p. 215 |
| Neutrino driven neutron star formation | p. 229 |
| Formation and evolution of neutron star binaries | p. 233 |
| From low-mass X-ray binaries to binary and millisecond pulsars | p. 257 |
| Common envelope evolution and formation of cataclysmic variables and low-mass X-ray binaries | p. 269 |
| The common envelope evolution of massive stars | p. 281 |
| The evolution of Her X-1 and why Her X-1 systems are very rare | p. 293 |
| Collisions between a white dwarf and a main-sequence star | p. 311 |
| New directions in globular cluster modeling | p. 317 |
| Statistics of pulsars in globular clusters | p. 349 |
| CVs in globular clusters: clues to compact binary production | p. 365 |
| Evaporation of companions in VLMXBs and in binary millisecond pulsars | p. 375 |
| Radiation-driven evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries and the formation of millisecond pulsars | p. 387 |
| A new mechanism for angular momentum loss in very-low-mass X-ray binaries and binary millisecond pulsars | p. 401 |
| X-ray dippers, eclipsing pulsars and three-dimensional orbits | p. 413 |
| From millisecond pulsars to low-mass X-ray binaries | p. 425 |
| A determination of the radio-luminosity function and relative number of globular cluster pulsars | p. 437 |
| Pulsar velocities and their origins | p. 445 |
| Statistical studies of the local pulsar population | p. 453 |
| Neutron star structure and superfluidity: a 1991 perspective | p. 467 |
| Magnetic field evolution from neutron star crust breaking | p. 473 |
| Diagnostics of disk-magnetosphere interaction in neutron star binaries | p. 487 |
| Quasi Periodic Oscillations and Sound | p. 511 |
| "Experimental" discovery of a tilt instability in standard accretion disks around luminous X-ray sources | p. 519 |
| 6 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations from low-mass X-ray binaries: the sound of an accretion disk? | p. 527 |
| Magnetic flares near black holes | p. 537 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 541 |
| Authors Index | p. 549 |
| Object Index | p. 551 |
| Subject Index | p. 555 |
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