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Tables of Contents for Unsolved Problems in Stellar Evolution
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1. Introduction
2. Pre-main-sequence evolution
3. Low-mass young stellar objects
4. Massive star formation: the role of bipolar outflows
5. Observation and theory of the initial stellar mass function
6. Brown dwarfs: from mythical to ubiquitous
7. Applications of accurate masses, Radii and Luminosities
8. Science results for stellar structure and evolution from Hipparcos
9. Solar neutrinos
10. Asteroseismology
11. Input physics and parameters: accretion and losses of mass and angular momentum
12. Why stars evolve to giant Radii
13. Abundance anomalies in stars: a 30-minute tour of the HR diagram
14. Winds and mass-loss of hot stars
15. Mass loss from cool stars
16. Selected problems in binary stellar-evolution theory
17. White dwarf stars
18. The pistol star and massive stars in the galactic center
19. FG Sge - an update
20. The Nebula around the carbon star IRC+10216
Concluding remarks.