....This conference is the Seventh in the Pacific Rim Conference Series.  The 2005 Series will return to Korea, where we will be welcomed by Sejong University in Seoul.  The main purpose of this conference series is to accelerate the development of astronomy in many countries in the Asian Rim by fostering greater interaction between astrophysicists from Eastern Pacific Rim countries and their European counterparts in the area of Stellar Astrophysics.


  ....This will be the second time the Conference has been held in Korea. 15 years ago, we were hosted by Yonsei University in Seoul and the Institute of Space Science and Astronomy (presently Korea Astronomy Observatory) in Daejeon. It was sponsored by the Korean Science and Engineering Foundation, KOSEF and the US National Science Foundation, NSF. The conference was concentrated in the research development of binary systems. There were over sixty papers presented from about ninety participants of which over seventy came from overseas. The topic of this current conference has expanded from binary systems to cover all areas of Stellar Astrophysics.  


....Asian astronomers and ones in the Americas and Europe are working on increasingly diverse topics in stellar astrophysics. We propose to expose the meeting participants to recent developments in a wide range of observational and theoretical studies about high-energy and compact sources, dynamical and evolutionary explorations of normal stars, and measurements with interferometers, photometers, spectrographs, radio, and spacecrafts. We are expecting the second Korean conference in 2005 will be just as successful as the first