The Impact of Long-Term Monitoring on Variable Star Research

Long-Term Photometry of Variables: The story of HD 160529.- New astrophysical insights based on historical and modern data of ? Carinae 1935-1992.- Evidence for circumstellar disks around variable Herbig Ae/Be stars from long-term photometry.- Ten years of monitoring southern Be stars: Results from the ESO LTPV project.- Long-term monitoring of the complex variations of Be stars.- Discussion No. 1: Be stars.- Long-term radio monitoring of Wolf-Rayet stars with non-thermal emission.- Long-term infrared photometry of WC stars making circumstellar dust.- Photometric monitoring of Wolf-Rayet stars: Strömgren uvby and narrow-band photometry.- Variability of Wolf-Rayet stars: constraints on the properties of hot-star winds.- DISCUSSION No. 2: Wolf-Rayet stars.- Long-term variability of Barium and S stars.- A long-term photometric campaign approach to the study of symbiotic variables.- Long-term light and period variations of some contact binaries.- Long-term monitoring of cyclic frequency variability in roAp stars at the Sutherland station of the South African Astronomical Observatory.- Long-term photometry of Ap stars.- Discussion No. 3: Binaries and Ap stars.- Problems and perspectives of long-term observations of Population I and II Cepheids, RR Lyrae-type and other luminous pulsating stars.- The story of AI Velorum: A review.- Long-term monitoring of the extreme galactic Cepheids V810 Centauri and V473 Lyrae.- Hot pulsating stars in the Geneva system.- Discussion No. 4: Pulsating stars.- Instrumental effects in stellar spectroscopy.- Investigation of Luminous Blue Variables of the Magellanic Clouds during the past decade with LTPV, CASPEC and IUE.- Fiber-linked echelle spectrographs: the ideal tool for high-resolution spectroscopic long-term monitoring.- Spectroscopicmonitoring of OBA stars.- Multichannel multicolour photometry: Experiences from a long-term monitoring campaign.- Discussion No. 5: Spectroscopy.- Long-term optical monitoring of Gamma-ray burst sources.- Archives of variable-star observations - History, use and prospects.- Computerised very-long-term monitoring of variables and the Sonneberg Plate Archive.- Discussion No. 6: Photographic photometry.- Lessons learned from 30 years of long-term variable-star photometry.- Long-term aspects of multi-site campaigns.- Geneva photometry and its homogeneity.- Photometric monitoring: Accuracy, homogeneity and precision in existing long-term projects.- Strömgren photometry, galactic research, and variable stars.- General Discussion - Chair: C. Sterken.- Resolution.