Detailed programme of the Latin American School of Astronomy on INTERACTING BINARY STARS July 3-27, 1995. July 3/a.m. Opening Ceremony Sahade: Introduction. Binary Stars. Definition. Importance. Visual binaries. Spectroscopic Binaries. Eclipsing Variables. Short historical background. Departures from the simple model. Peculiar systems. Struve's revolution. The interacting binary zoo. Roche equipotentials:their validity. Kopal's classification of close binaries. p.m. Gimenez: Observational techniques, I: Introduction to Observational Proceduresfor interacting binaries. Photometric methods. Light curves of close binaries. Methods of analysis of light curves. Additional information in the light curve. Modern photometric techniques: CCD photometry. Measurements of polarimetry. 4/a.m. Poveda: Multiple systems. Dynamic evolution. Dissociation. p.m. Gimenez: Observational techniques, II: Spectroscopic methods Radial velocity curves of close binaries. Orbit determinations from radial velocities. Luminosity ratios. Rotational velocities. Radio observations of close binaries. 5/a.m. Bonnell: Formation of binary stars. p.m. Staff + Leung: Library use + Catalogues. 6/a.m. Gimenez: First evolutionary steps. Pre-main sequence stellar evolution. "Normal" binary systems. p.m. Leung: Contact binaries. W Ursae Majoris systems. 7/a.m. Sahade: Algols. Evolutionary implications. p.m. Guinan: Modern astrometric techniques. 8/a.m. Kondo: Cataclysmic variables. Nova-like binaries. 10/a.m. Kondo: Satellite observations of binaries. Mass flow and evolutionary processes in binaries. p.m. Guinan: RS Canum Venaticorum systems 11/a.m. Kondo: Barium and S-star binaries. Formation of collapsed objects in binaries. Blue stragglers. p.m. Leung: Apsidal motion; implications. 12/a.m. Trimble: Binaries with compact components, I. 13/a.m. Trimble: Binaries with compact comp., II. Binary pulsars p.m. Trimble: SS 433. 14/a.m. Guinan: Magnetic activity in binaries. 15/a.m. Sahade: Symbiotic binaries. 17/a.m. Sahade: Algol. Beta Lyrae. 18/a.m. Sahade: Wind collision in binaries. W Serpentis. 19/a.m. Sahade: RY Scuti. R Arae. 20/a.m. Carraminana: High energy gamma radiation from binaries. 21/a.m. Eenens: Wolf-Rayet binaries. 22/a.m Guinan: Considerations on binary evolution. Pending problems. Further information from eenens@tonali.inaoep.mx
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