The idea of holding this Symposium has its origin in a conversation with G. Con to poulos during the winter of 1973. It was then clear that the progress realized in Stellar Dynamics since the Thessaloniki symposium had given a new shape to the field. Other meetings such as the C. N. R. S. colloquium held in Paris in 1967 or the LA. V. colloquium held in Cambridge, England, in 1970 had in the meantime given opportunities to review the advances achieved in several branches of this field. We thought that time had come to organize a general confrontation of the new results obtained in the approach of the gravitational N-body problem by different methods, in the investigation of spherical and flattened systems, in the comparisons with ob servations and in more theoretical speculations on orbits, integrals of motion, dense nuclei or relativistic stellar dynamics. Things were made easy by the support of Commissions 33 and 37 which welcomed the proposition and by 1. R. King who accepted to act as Chairman of the Scientific Organizing Committee. The final decision to meet in Besan'Yon was taken during the XVth General Assembly of the LA. U. in Sydney in August 1973. The members of the Organizing Committee were: 1. R. King (Chairman), G. Con topoulos, A. Hayli, M. Henon, G. Hori, D. Lynden-Bell, L. Perek, L. Spitzer, R. Wielen, Ya. Zel'dovich while the members of the Local Committee were: A.

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Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 69, held in Besançon, France, September 9-13, 1974

Inhalt
I/ Spherical Systems.- Dynamical Theory of Spherical Stellar Systems with Large N (Invited Paper).- Homology in the Evolution of Cluster Cores.- Correlation Functions for the Gravitational Force.- Vibrations of Non-Uniform Spherical Systems.- Tidal Effects On Spherical Stellar Systems.- N-Body Simulations (Invited Paper).- The Simulation of Non-Isolated Expanding Gravitational Systems.- Numerical Experiments on the Tensor Virial in N-Body Systems.- The Dynamical Evolution of Binaries in Clusters.- Binary Evolution in Stellar Systems.- The Structure of Round Stellar Systems: Observation and Theory (Invited Paper).- Dynamics of Star Clusters: Comparison of Theory with Observations and Simulations (Invited Paper).- Two Recent Developments Concerning the Monte Carlo Method.- Dynamical Masses and Mass-to-Light Ratios for Globular Clusters.- Structure of the Hyades Cluster.- Dynamical Friction in the Coma Cluster.- Formation of Double Galaxies by Tidal Capture.- II/Flattened Systems.- Crossfertilization Between Plasma, Stellar Dynamics and Hydrodynamics.- Ellipsoidal Stellar Systems.- A Method for Solving Poisson's Equation for Systems with Axial Symmetry.- Dynamical Models of Elliptical Galaxies.- Integrals of Motion (Invited Paper).- On the Sensitivity of the Behaviour of Stellar Orbits to the Parameters of Simple Galactic Mass Models.- Resonant Stellar Orbits in Spiral Galaxies.- Is There a Third Integral of Motion?.- The Collapse and Formation of Galaxies (Invited Paper).- On the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies.- Numerical Study of a Gravitating System of Colliding Particles; Formation and Dynamics of Discs.- Global Instabilities of Disks (Invited Paper).- Theoretical Limits on the Properties of Low-Velocity M-Dwarfs.- Problems Associated with the M-Dwarf Population.-The Rotation Curves of Galaxies.- M/L Ratios in Galactic Disks.- N-Body Simulations of Disks (Invited Paper).- Comparison with Observations of Disk Galaxies (Invited Paper).- Dynamics of Early Type Galaxies.- III /Nuclei.- Galactic Nuclei and Compact Supermassive Objects (Invited Paper).- Symmetric Ejection of Massive Objects from Galactic Nuclei.- Expériences numériques sur l'éjection de masses depuis le centre d'un disque d'étoiles.- IV/ Relativistic Stellar Dynamics.- Dynamics of Relativistic Stellar Systems (Invited Paper).- The Concentric Shell Method for Relativistic Star Clusters.- V/General Conclusion and Final Discussion.- Do Stellar Systems Agree with the Singular Evolution of N-Body Systems?.- Final Discussion.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.