SYMPOSIUM UAI NUMBER 172
DYNAMICS, EPHEMERIDES AND ASTROMETRY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The aim of this symposium is to gather astronomers interested in the
current knowledge of the solar system. The following topics will be covered :
- dynamics : evolution of the system, chaotic behaviour, relativistic
effects, analytical and numerical theories of planets, natural satellites and
small bodies;
- mathematical techniques : symplectic mappings, elliptic functions and algebraic
manipulators;
- ephemerides : limits of predictability (resonance and chaos), accurate short
term and long term predictions, real-time update, optimal representations,
numerical integration, near-Earth objects;
- observations : astrometry from space, ground-based astrometric observations
of high accuracy (CCD, optical interferometry, VLA, VLBI, radar, lunar laser
ranging results and pulsar timings connected to solar system ephemerides);
- dynamical reference system and astronomical standards.
This symposium was organized in connection with the celebration of
the bicentenary of Bureau des longitudes and historical aspects of the
progress in celestial mechanics and in ephemerides will be covered
during the symposium by invited lectures under the presidency of J. Kovalevsky.
PROCEEDINGS AND PRESENTATIONS :
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITEE :
- Chairman: S. Ferraz-Mello (Universidade de sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Co-chairman: B. Morando (Bureau des longitudes, France)
- Members :
- J.E. Arlot (Bureau des longitudes, France)
- V. Brumberg (Institut d´Astronomie Applique, St Petersbourg, Russia)
- A. Carusi (Reparto di Planetologia, Roma, Italy)
- S. Debarbat (Observatoire de Paris, France)
- J. Henrard (Faculte universitaire Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium)
- J. Kovalevsky (Observatoire de la Cote d´Azur, France)
- Y. Kozai (Tokyo Observatory, Japan)
- J.H. Lieske (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA)
- A. Milani (University of Pisa, Italy)
- P.K. Seidelmann (U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C., USA)
- Ye Shu Hua (Shanghai Observatory, China, PR)
- B.D. Yallop (Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge, Great-Britain)