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Welcoming Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2007

Petr Harmanec
Petr Harmanec*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute of the Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, CZ-180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic email: [email protected] Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-251 65 Ondřejov, Czech Republic email: [email protected]
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It is great privilege for me to welcome so many of you to Prague, or Praha as we call our capital in Czech.

We have been witnessing a very rapid development of observational techniques over the past few decades, leading to many exciting discoveries, quite often in the field of extragalactic research. I sometimes sense the tendency to consider the studies of binaries and stars in general as exhausted topics. However, we all know that the better our real and deep understanding of the principal sources of radiative energy in the Universe becomes, the safer will be the ground for studies of all higher hierarchical systems.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S240: Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics , August 2006 , pp. 3 - 4
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