Third Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Astronomical Union: September 30–October 5 1984, Kyoto, Japan Part 1

1.- Remarks by the Chairman of the Scientific Organizing Committee.- Section 1: A View of Asian-Pacific Astronomy.- The Japanese National Large Telescope (JNLT) Project.- Solar Studies in China.- New Telescopes in China.- The East-Siberian Complex of Sibizmir Solar Observatories.- Recent Developments with the Anglo-Australian Telescope.- Galactic and Extragalactic Studies with the Kiso Schmidt.- Cooperation in Astronomy Between Indonesia and Japan.- New Telescopes in India.- The Iraqi National Astronomical Observatory.- The Australian Radio-Telescope.- Results From Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO)- A Progress Report.- Space Astronomy in Japan.- STARLAB: An Ultraviolet/Optical Space Telescope.- The Mt John 1 Metre Telescope Project.- Radio Astronomy at the University of Sydney.- Astronomical Research Activities with the 74 Inch Telescope at Kottamia Observatory.- Astronomy in Tadjikistan.- Present and Future of Astronomical Science at Gadjah Mada University, Central Java, Indonesia.- Section 2a: The Sun.- High-Energy Observations of Solar Flares.- Dynamical Processes in the Solar Corona and Interplanetary Space (Invited Review).- Magnetodynamic Phenomena in the Solar and Stellar Outer Atmospheres.- High Resolution Observation of H? Solar Flares and Temporal Relation Between H? and X-Ray, Microwave Emission.- Three-Dimensional Properties of Interplanetary Disturbances in 1978–1981.- On the Spörer Minimum.- Solar Vector Magnetograms of the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory.- Solar Five-Minute Oscillations of Low, Intermediate, and High Degree.- Reference Models of Sunspot Chromospheres.- Resonant Excitation of the Solar g-Modes Through Coupling of 5-Min Oscillations.- Section 2b: Solar-Stellar Connections.- Plasma and Radiation Processes (Invited Review).-Oscillations and Pulsations in the Sun and Stars (Invited Review).- Stellar Chromospheres, Coronae, and Winds (Invited Review).- Nonlinear Hydrodynamical Models of Stellar Convective Zones.- Turbulence, Convection, and Mixing in Red Giant Stars: Some Empirical Approaches Based on High Resolution Spectroscopy.- High Sensitivity SiO Maser Survey for Mira Variables.- Section 3: Stars.- Classical Algol Systems (Invited Review).- Massive X-Ray Binaries: Their Physics and Evolution.- Rapid Oscillations in Cataclysmic Variables.- Short-Period Noncontact Binaries.- The Effect of Back Pressure on the Contact Evolution of a Close Binary System.- The Electron Temperature of AM Herculis Type Systems.- Photometry, Polarimetry, and Spectroscopy of AM Herculis Variables.- Line Profiles in Symbiotic Stars.- Light Curves of V711 Tauri (HR 1099).- Carbon Deflagration Models for Type-I Supernovae and Theoretical Optical Spectra.- A Survey of Emission-Line Stars in the CMa Star Formation Region.- X-Ray Spectra of Various Bursts from the Rapid Burster.- Trapezium-Type Multiple Systems.- Age-Metallicity Relation for F-Stars.- Section 4a: Compact Stars, and Galactic Structure.- The Pulsar Velocities and Their Binary Origins (Invited Review).- Dynamics of Disk Galaxies (Invited Review).- The Galactic Centre (Invited Review).- Expected and Observed Late Giant Star Counts in the Milky Way Bulge.- Post-Collapse Evolution of Small-N Clusters.- The Galactic Center Radio Lobe — A Cosmic Jet in Our Galaxy?.- Tenma Observations of the X-Ray Pulsar 4U1626–67.- A Model of the Galactic Centre with Magnetic Monopoles.- Section 4b: Galactic Structure.- The Injection of Energy into the Interstellar Medium by Stars (Invited Review).- The Shape of Spiral Arms.- High-Resolution Observations of the OrionBright Bar.- Excitation of Interstellar Molecules in the ORI-KL Source.- Large-Scale Structures of High Galactic Latitude Dark Clouds.- A Quenched Carbonaceous Composite (QCC) Grain Model for the Interstellar 220 NM Extinction Hump.- Photographic and Spectrographic Observations with a Reducing Camera on the 61 CM NCU Telescope.- Star Count of the North Galactic Pole Region in the UBV Colour Bands.- Section 5a: Galactic Structure and Cosmology.- Star Formation Associated with High-Velocity Mass Outflows (Invited Review).- Globular Clusters and Galactic Evolution (Invited Review).- The Structure of the R Monocerotis, NGC 2261, and HH39 Nebular Complex.- Formation of Astrophysical Jets by a Contracting Magnetic Accretion Disk.- CS, C34S, and CH3OH Observations of the Molecular Cloud Associated with NGC 7538.- Deep(est) Colour-Magnitude Diagrams of Clusters.- Elliptical Galaxies Under Perturbation.- A Photometric Study of Poor Clusters of Galaxies.- N-Body Simulation of Giant Molecular Clouds in a Galaxy.- A Design for Digital Signal Processing in a Large Field Radio Patrol Camera.- A Faint Object Spectrometer for the Infrared.- Section 5b: Galaxies and Cosmology.- QSO Absorption Lines (Invited Review).- The Environment of QSOs (Invited Review).- Heavy Element Abundances in Absorption Line Systems Towards Q2206-199N.- An Absorption Line Study of Galaxies at High Redshift.- QSOs As Probes of the Early Universe.- The Baryon Clump Within an Extended Dark Matter.- The Effects of Self-Gravity on the Solar Nebula.- Echelle Spectroscopy of Narrow Line Regions of Seyfert Galaxies.- New Polar Ring Galaxies in Rich Clusters of Galaxies.- Distance to the Anti-Center Shell.- Index of Contributors.- Announcement.