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.

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