About Event:

Binary stars lie at the heart of many key astrophysical phenomena. Various explosive cosmic events result from binary stars, as do close double black holesneutron starswhite dwarfs, type Ia supernovae, X-ray binaries, millisecond pulsars etc. Relying on existing large scientific facilities, classical optical, radio and X-ray observations are discovering increasingly large numbers of such binary stars. A decade ago, the ground-based LIGOVirgo detected the merging of two stellar-mass binary black holes, opening a new window in gravitational wave astronomy. In the future, with the support of next-generation astronomical instruments, we shall discover many more binary-related celestial objects. Against this backdrop, we convene this conference, inviting all international observers and theoreticians in the field of stellar science to participate in and exchange recent progress related to binary stars and to look forward to future collaboration and development of new directions for research. Scientific Organizing Committee: Floor Broekgaarden Xuefei Chen Hongwei Ge Chair Zhanwen Han Natalia Ivanova Christopher A. Tout Invited Review Speakers: Nadejda Blagorodnova University of Barcelona Orsola De Marco Macquarie University Tassos Fragos Université de Genève Natalia Ivanova University of Alberta Robert Izzard University of Surrey Xiangdong Li Nanjing University Ilya Mandel Monash University Michela Mapelli University of Padova Philipp Podsiadlowski University of Oxford Hugues Sana KU Leuven Veronika Schaffenroth TLS - Thuringian State Observatory Xiaofeng Wang Tsinghua University