Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities: Proceedings of the 111th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held at Villa Olmo, Como, ... Astronomical Union Symposia, 111)

IAU Symposium No. 111, "Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quanti- ties", was held at Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, on May 24-29, 1984. Meet- ings held in the past ten years on related topics include: IAU Symposium No. 109, '-Astrometric Techniques", held at the University of Florida in Jan., 1984, "The MK Process and Stellar Classification", held at the University of Toronto in June, 1983, "Stellar Absolute Energy Distri- butions", an unpublished Joint Meeting (Commissions 25 and 45), held at the General Assembly of the IAU in Patras, Greece in August, 1982, IAU Colloquium No. 62, "Current Techniques in Double and Multiple Star Re- search", held at Northern Arizona University in May, 1981, the ESO Work- fl shop: "Methods of Abundance Determination for Stars, held in Geneva in March, 1980, "Problems of Calibration of Multicolor Photometric Sys tems", held at Dudley Observatory in March, 1979, IAU Colloquium No. 48, "Modern Astrometry", held at the University of Vienna in Sept., 1978, IAU Colloquium No. 50, "High Angular Resolution Stellar Interferometry" held at the University of Maryland in Aug., 1978, "Spectral Classifice. - tion of the Future", held at the Vatican in July, 1978 and IAU Sympos- ium No. 72, "Abundance Effects in Classification", held at the Univer- sity of Lausanne in July, 1975. The present meeting was the first to cover the broad range of the calibration of fundamental stellar qU8T". ti- ties in one meeting. Nine commissions of the IAU co-sponsored the meeting. Read more