Preface

1 Binary Evolution

R. E. Taam

Common-Envelope Evolution, the Formation of CVs, LMXBs, and the Fate of HMXBs

F. A. Rasio

S. L. Shapiro

Hydrodynamic Evolution of Coalescing Compact Binaries

Ph. Podsiadlowski

The Structure and Evolution of Thorne-Zytkow Objects

J. P. Lasota

Mechanisms for Dwarf Nova Outbursts and Soft X-ray Transients (A Critical Review)

P. Ghosh

Spin Evolution of the Progenitors of Binary and Millisecond Pulsars

H. Ritter

Z. Zhang

U. Kolb

The Reaction of Low-Mass Stars to Anisotropic Irradiation and its Implications for the Secular Evolution of Cataclysmic Binaries

E. Ergma

M. J. Sarna

The Evolutionary Status of PSR 1718-19

V. M. Lipunov

The Ecology of Magnetic Rotators

R. W. Romani

The Formation and Evolution of Black-Hole Binaries

2 Supernovae in Binaries

B. Leibundgut

Type Ib/c supernovae and their Relation to Binary Stars

K. Nomoto

K. Iwamoto

T. Suzuki

O. R. Pols

H. Yamaoka

M. Hashimoto

P. Hoflich

E. P. J. van den Heuvel

The Origin of Type Ib-Ic-IIb-IIL Supernovae and Binary Star Evolution

S. D. van Dyk

A. J. Barth

A. V. Filippenko

The Environments of Type Ib/c Supernovae

P. C. Joss

Type II Supernovae in Binary Systems

3 Gravitational waves from Binaries

K. S. Thorne

Gravitational Waves from Compact Bodies

4 Radio Pulsars

A. Wolszczan

Planets around Pulsars

D. C. Backer

Timing of Millisecond Pulsars

M. Bailes

Pulsar Velocities

A. G. Lyne

A Review of Galactic Millisecond Pulsar Searches

D. R. Lorimer

The Local Low-Mass Binary Pulsar Population

D. Bhattacharya

Models for the Formation of Binary and Millisecond Pulsars

D. A. Frail

Pulsar/Supernova Remnant Associations

S. Johnston

Periastron Observations of the PSR B1259-63/SS 2883 Binary System

V. M. Kaspi

R. N. Manchester

M. Bailes

J. F. Bell

Timing Observations of the SMC Binary PSR J0045-7319

W. T. S. Deich

S. R. Kulkarni

The Masses of the Neutron Stars in M15C

5 X-ray Binaries

F. Nagase

High-Mass X-ray Binaries: Recent Developments

M. van der Klis

Low-Mass X-ray Binaries -- Recent Developments

M. H. Finger

R. B. Wilson

B. A. Harmon

W. S. Paciesas

Aperiodic Flux Variability in A 0535+262

H. Inoue

ASCA Observations of White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes

F. Verbunt

ROSAT Observations of Soft X-ray Transients in Quiescence

P. A. Charles

Black-Hole Systems: Optical Spectroscopy and IR Photometry

C. A. Haswell

Optical Photometry of Black-Hole Candidates

W. S. Paciesas

S. N. Zhang

B. C. Rubin

B. A. Harmon

C. A. Wilson

G. J. Fishman

Discovery of a New X-ray Transient in Scorpius (GRO J1655-40 XXX X-ray Nova Scorpii 1994)

R. W. Hunstead

D. Campbell-Wilson

T. Ye

The Radio Outburst from GRO J1655-40

6 Binaries in Globular Clusters

P. Hut

Dynamics and Binary (Trans)formation in Globular Clusters

H. M. Johnston

F. Verbunt

G. Hasinger

W. Bunk

ROSAT Observations of Globular Clusters in the Galaxy and in M31

7 Cataclysmic Variables

K. Beuermann

A M Herculis Binaries

S. Rappaport

R. Di Stefano

Luminous Supersoft X-ray Sources

P. Kahabka

J. Trumper

Supersoft ROSAT Sources in the Galaxies

A. P. Cowley

P. C. Schmidtke

D. Crampton

J. B. Hutchings

Supersoft X-ray Sources in the LMC

A. van Teeseling

J. Heise

P. Kahabka

Are Supersoft X-ray Sources Consistent with White Dwarfs?

M. Mikolajewski

J. Mikolajewska

T. Tomov

Propellors--A New Class of Interacting Binaries

B. D. Oppenheimer

J. A. Mattei

Analysis of Long-Term AAVSO Observations of RS Ophiuchi

8 Gamma-ray Bursts

G. J. Fishman

Gamma-ray Bursts: Observational Overview

C. Kouveliotou

Soft Gamma Repeaters Revisited with BATSE

T. Piran

Gamma-ray Bursts and Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Author index

Subject index

Object index

Listing of Poster Papers