Active Close Binaries

Opening Remarks: Physical Causes of the Light Variations of Active Binary Systems and their Interpretation.- Opening Remarks: Physical Causes of the Light Variations of Active Binary Systems and their Interpretation.- 1. Interaction in Binaries and Algols.- Eclipsing Binaries as Astrophysical Laboratories and the Strange Case of Epsilon Aurigae.- Accretion Disks in Non-Degenerate Binaries.- Resolving the Puzzle of the W Serpentis Stars.- Extragalactic Interacting Binaries.- Effective Gravity-Darkening of Close Binary Systems.- Binary Activity at the Top of the Main Sequence: Y Cyg and U Oph.- Period Changes and Magnetic Cycles.- Absolute Dimensions of Classical Algol-Type Binaries.- Recent Results of Apsidal Motion Studies in Eclipsing Binaries.- On the Orbital Circularization of Close Binaries.- Stellar Structure and Evolution with respect to Binarity.- An Optimization Method for Solutions of Close Eclipsing Binaries.- Spectrophotometry of Algol-Type Binaries.- Complications in the Balmer-Line Spectrum of TT Hydrae.- An Optimization Technique for the Fourier Analysis of the Light Curves of Totally Eclipsing Systems of Algol Type.- The Algol-Type Binary U Coronae Borealis: a Triple?.- Interacting Binary CX Draconis.- Disk-Driven Precession in Active Close Binaries and in Active Galactic Nuclei.- Near-Contact Binary Stars.- Observations and Light Curve Analysis of Eclipsing Binaries of W UMa Type.- A Radial Velocity Search for Brown Dwarfs and the Low-Mass Companion.- Photometry of Some Close Binaries at the Ankara University Observatory.- Circularization, Synchronization, and Differential Rotation in Chromospherically Active Binaries.- 2. Binary Evolution and the Contact Question.- Do Thermally Decoupled Late-Type Contact Binaries Really Exist?.- The Evolution of the Period and Synchronization for Close G-type MS Binaries.- The A-Type W UMa System AW UMa.- Rotation and Activity.- Solar-Like Magnetic Structures in Active Close Binaries.- Starspot Lifetimes.- Tidal Torques and Magnetic Stellar Winds in RS CVn Binaries.- Flares on RS CVn and Related Binaries.- Activity and Evolution in RS CVn Systems.- Deciphering Long-Term Photospheric and Chromospheric Activity on the Contact Binary Binary VW Cephei.- Synoptic Doppler Imaging and Photometry of Spotted Chromospherically Active Stars.- Infrared Studies on Active Binaries and Circumstellar Matter.- Infrared Photometry of RS CVn Short-Period Systems.- On Chromospheric Emission and Photometric Variability of Active Late-Type Stars.- 3. High Energy Binaries and Exotic Objects.- Long-Term Observations of Active Binaries.- Similarities and Differences between the Light Variability of the K Giant and Dwarf Active Binaries HK Lac and BY Dra.- Recent Measures of Call H and K Chromospheric Fluxes in a Sample of RS CVn Systems.- Photometric Variability of II Peg.- Activity Cycle in the RS CVn System II Peg.- Low Flux Line Profiles on the IUE Spectra of II Peg.- A Photometric Study of UV Psc.- Novae and their Non-Spherically-Symmetric Explosions.- Optical Properties of Cataclysmic Variable Stars.- IUE Spectra of Cataclysmic Variables: Observational Results and Theoretical Implications.- Binaries and Pulsars as Gravitational Wave Sources: Possibility of Direct Detection by Ground Based Experiments.- Neutron Star Masses.- High Angular Resolution Studies of Binaries at Georgia State University.- Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy as a Probe of Active Close Binaries.- 4. Cool Close Binaries and RS CVn Stars.- Modelling the Coronae and Chromospheres of RS CVn Systems by the Analysis of Ultraviolet, X-Ray and Radio Observations.- Magnetic Flares in Close Binaries.- The Evolution of Chromospheric Stucture on AR Lacertae.- Spatial Resolution of Stellar Atmospheres within Active Close Binaries.- Information Limit Optimization Techniques Applied to AB Dor.- The Complementarity of Doppler Imaging and Starspot Modelling.- Perspectives for Ground-Based and Space Research on Active Close Binaries.- Unif