D.Q. Lamb – författare

This volume presents the Proceedings of International Astronomical Union Symposium No.93 on Fundamental Problems in the Theory of Stellar Evolution. It contains the texts of all the invited papers, the abstracts of the contributed papers that were read by one of the attending author(s), and edited discussions. Only one abstract is included in this volume from each author who attended, and the abstracts of papers which were read on behalf of absent author(s) are not included. Those papers, which were read but are not included in the volume, are indicated by asterisks in the table of contents. The meeting took place at the University Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan from July 22 to 25, 1980, and was sponsored by IAU Commission 35 on Stellar Constitution and co-sponsored by the IAU Commission 42 on Close Binary Stars. Locally, the Symposium was hosted by the Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University with encouragement from the Astronomical Society of Japan. Financial support for the meeting was provided by the IAU, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, the Japan World Exposition Commemorative Fund, and the Yamada Science Foundation. Preparation for the Symposium and editing of the Proceedings were supported in part by Scientific Research Fund of Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (530603).

Since 1976 a meeting devoted to recent research on cataclysmic variables ("CV workshop") has been held annually somewhere in North America. Many of the meetings have been held - following a custom older than anyone reading this book - in locations with well-known recreational potential (e. g. Santa Cruz, CA; Boulder, CO). We thought hard about this custom while contemplating the possibility of organi­ zing a meeting in Massachusetts in the middle of winter. Nobody wants their meeting to go down in history as the smallest and dullest, and it ~ surely be the coldest. But on occasion, meeting organizers have defied custom and scheduled meetings for less~than-trendy places, and gotten away with it (Ur·bana, IL and Rochester, NY must be reckoned as examples of this). Encouraged by the spatial and temporal proximity of the American Astronomical Society meeting (Boston, January 9-12), we thought we might get away with it again, and so came to organize a meeting for January 12-15, 1983, in Cambridge, MA. There was another reason for a meeting at this time and place, we loftily proclaimed in early mailings. No one doubts that the CV''s are closely related to the low-mass X-ray binaries ("LMXB'' s"), in which the accreting star is usually, or perhaps always, more compact than a white dwarf. Many of the general characteristics of LMXB''s sound pretty familiar to any student of CV''s: orbital periods in the range 0.