Table of Contents

Introduction: Reminiscences and Appreciation of a Great Astronomer.- Digging Foundations for the “Royal Road”.- One Fellow’s View of the “Royal Road”.- Reminiscences of a Japanese Contemporary.- RR CrB and Algol — The First and Last Star in Zden?k Kopal’s Life with Binaries.- Atmospheric Eclipses in WR+O Binaries: From Kopal and Shapley to Present Days.- Binary Star Morphology and Dymamical Aspects.- Resolving the Algol Paradox and Kopal’s Classification of Close Binaries with Evolutionary Implications.- Global Solution of Dynamical Systems — A Report to Z. Kopal, on What Followed Since.- Period Changes of Close Binary Systems.- The Eclipsing Binary BX Andromedae and its Orbital Period Behaviour.- The Unique Binary Star ? Coronae Borealis.- The Eccentric Eclipsing Binary V889 Aquilae.- Triple and Multiple Systems.- Estimation of Light Time Effects for Close Binaries in Triple Systems.- Eclipsing Binaries Showing Light-Time Effect.- Astrometric Solution of the Multiple System XY Leo.- V475 Sct (Nova Scuti 2003) — Binary or Triple System?.- Photometric Observations and Apsidal Motion Study of V1143 Cyg.- Intrinsic Variables as Components of Close Binaries.- Preliminary Analysis of V and Hp Light Curves of 26 Carbon Miras.- Non-Radial Pulsations in Components of Symbiotic Stars.- Be Stars in Binaries.- Orbital Parameters of the Binary Companion in o and Using Spectrum Disentangling.- Spectrum Disentangling and Orbital Solution for ? Dra.- An Outburst Detected in the Spectrum of HD 6226.- Bimodal Structure of Gas Streams in Interacting Binaries.- Energy Transfer in W UMa Systems.- In Between ? Lyrae and Algol: The Case of V356 Sgr.- Mathematical Physics and Numerical Modeling.- EB Light Curve Models — What’s Next?.- Basic Functions of the LightCurve Analysis of Eclipsing Variables in the Frequency Domain.- Photometric Mass Ratios of Eclipsing Binary Stars.- The OGLE-TR-56 Star-Planet System.- Light Curve Analysis of Early-Type Close LMC Binaries.- New Techniques and Limitations of Light Curve Analysis.- A New Package of Computer Codes for Analyzing Light Curves of Eclipsing Pre-Cataclysmic Binaries.- Light Curve Analysis of Early-Type Overcontact Systems.- A Photometric Study of the Activity of SW Lac.- CCD Photometry and Modeling of the Overcontact Binary Systems NN Vir and YY CrB.- Radial Velocity and Light Curve Analysis of the Eclipsing Binary NN Vir.- On the Overcontact Binary V2388 Oph and an Improved M—R Relation for LTCBs.- AQ Psc — Analysis of New Light Curves.- CCD Photometry of the Neglected Contact Binaries V344 Lac and V1191 Cyg.- CCD Photometry of Neglected Eclipsing Binaries — KZ Dra, LR Cam and IM Vul.- An Observational Study of Contact Binaries with Large Temperature Differences Between Components.- Photometric Solution of the Eclipsing Binary V351 Pegasi.- V2213 Cyg is a New W UMa-Type System.- Light Curve Analysis of Two New W UMa Stars in M15.- First Ground-Based Photometry and Light Curve Analysis of the Recently Discovered Contact Binary HX UMa.- UBV(RI)C Photometry of the Contact W UMa Binary BD + 14°5016.- UV Leo: The Binary with the Two Suns.- Influence of Interstellar and Atmospheric Extinction on Light Curves of Eclipsing Binaries.- Results of Light Curve Analysis of the Massive Binary Cyg X-1/V1357 Cyg in Primary Minimum.- Evolutionary Processes in Low-Mass Binary Systems.- The Evolution of Massive Close Binaries.- Binary Evolution Compared to Observed Algols.- Contact Binaries: A Study of the Proximity Effects and Gravity Darkening Based on Kopal’s Fourier Method.-Multi-Facility Study of the Algol-Type Binary ? Librae.- Numerical Modeling of Mass Transfer in Close Binaries.- Doppler Tomography.- Indirect Imaging of the Accretion Disk Rim in W Crucis.- Present Understanding of the Light Curves of Symbiotic Binaries.- On the Asynchronous Rotation of Accretors in Interacting Binaries.- Photometric Evolution of the Orbital Light Curves of the Slow Nova V723 Cas.- Optical and X-ray Observations of the Symbiotic System AG Draconis During Quiescence and Outburst.- Towards an Understanding of Radial Velocity Shift in UV Spectra of Symbiotic Stars.- Preliminary Photometric Results for the 2003 Eclipse of EE Cep.- Spectroscopic Observations of the EE Cep Eclipse in 2003.- BM Cas: A Long-Period Eclipsing Binary with a Supergiant and a Common Envelope.- MV Lyr: Transition from Low to High Brightness State.- Preliminary Analysis of Photometric Variations of the Central Star of the Planetary Nebula Sh 2–71.- Observations of the Deeply Eclipsing Dwarf Nova GY Cnc.- Wavelength Dependence of the Orbital Variability of the Eclipsing Nova-Like Object DW UMa.- Flickering in the Magnetic CV Star AM Herculis.- Post-Common-Envelope Binaries with Distorted Secondaries.- Search for Correlations Between Batse Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae.