The Conference takes place 22-25 September 2003 at the buildings of Saint Petersburg Scientific Center and of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg.
The main goal of the Conference is to discuss recent results in Astrometry, Geodynamics, Ephemeris Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics in the context of problems connected with improving the Celestial, Terrestrial and Dynamic coordinate frames, in particular with determining their mutual orientation on the sub-milliarcsecond level of accuracy. Special attention is paid to develop the methods of processing high precision observations of VLBI, SLR and GPS techniques on the basis of the new standards of the IERS Conventions (2000).
 

The schedule of the Conference includes 6 Sessions:
Session I: Celestial and Terrestrial Reference Frames: Techniques, Definitions and Links
Session II: Rotation of the Earth and other Planets: Observations and Models
Session III: Plate Tectonics, Crustal Deformations and Geophysical Fluids
Session IV: Solar System Dynamics
Session V: Relativity and Time
Session VI: Highlights of  the 25th IAU General Assembly on reference systems and fundamental astronomy

Total number of authors = 122, from 47 institutes of 15 countries.

CAPITAINE Nicole, France (Chair)
BRZEZINSKI Aleksander, Poland
DEFRAIGNE Pascale, Belgium
FINKELSTEIN Andrey, Russia
SOFFEL Michael, Germany
VONDRAK Jan, Czech Republic
YATSKIV Yaroslav, Ukraine

Places of sessions of the Conference:
22 September: St. Petersburg Scientific Center of RAS
23 September: Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS
24 September: Observatory Svetloe
25 September: Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS

Address of St. Petersburg Scientific Center of RAS:
Saint Petersburg, University Quay, 5
(The Center is located in the Vasilievsky Island, near Dvortsovy Bridge and Hermitage)

Address of IAA RAS
Saint Petersburg , Kutuzov Quay, 10
(The Institute is situated between the Liteiny Bridge and the Summer Garden, the nearest Metro stations are "Chernyshevskaya" and "Lenin Square").
The registration of participants will be on Monday September 22 from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. at St. Petersburg Scientific Center of RAS.
The Registration Fee in the sum of 50 USD has to be paid (in rubles) at the registration. Documents in need for financial reports of participants may be requested at the IAA of RAS.

Additive information is available by the
phone:  7-812-275-11-18
fax: 7-812-275-11-19.
20 and 21 of September a member of LOC will stay 20-21 in the Institute of Applied Astronomy
In any urgent case he/she can help you.

1. Yu. Barkin, J. Ferrandiz (Spain), New approach to development of Moon rotation theory
2. Yu. Barkin, J. Ferrandiz (Spain), Mercury resonant translatory-rotary motion as "core-mantle" system
 3. G. Bourda (France), Modelisation of Earth rotation using temporal variations of the EarthтЦУs gravity field
4. R. Dasaev, Ju. Chumin (Russia), Linear stochastic model of the Earth Pole in view of the Moon disturbances
5. M. Folgueira (Spain), J. Souchay (France), A new formulation of the damping effect in the Earth's and Mars' free polar motion
6. V. Gubanov, C. Shabun  (Russia), Three-angle parameterization of the Earth's orientation in VLBI data analysis
7. T. Ivanova, N. Shuygina (Russia), Geopotential coefficient J2 from the analysis of the Etalon 1 & 2 SLR observations
8. S. Kumakshev (Russia), Motion of the Earth's pole
9. S. Lambert (France), Coupling effects between nutation and zonal variations in EarthтЦУs rotation
10. M. Lubkov (Ukraine), The definition of the forced nutations of rotating elastic Earth by finite element method
11. I. Sinitsyn, Ju. Markov (Russia), The development of spectral-correlation and kinetic models of the Earth rotation
12. V. Perepelkin, B. V. Beloysov (Russia), Nonlinear stochastic correlation model of the Earth pole
13. L. Zotov (Russia), High frequency variations in the Earth rotation

1. A. Gozhy (Ukraine), On the expediency of creation of the network of the same type points of joint astronomical, geodetic and geophysical determinations of their position changes in Eurasia
2. C. Huang (China), Seasonal vertical crustal motions in China detected by GPS and their geophysical explanation
3. O. Kudlay (Ukraine), Irregularity analysis of plate motion in EOP series
4. N. Shcherbakova, N. Miller, E. Prudnikova, V. Gorshkov (Russia), Earth tidal variations from local astrometric EOP sets (1904-2002) recomputed in IERS Convention 2000.

1. N. Bronnikova, T. Vasil'eva (Russia), Astrometric observations of Uranus in 2002 with normal astrograph
2. Z. Hong (China), Internal structure models of Mars
3. A. Ivantsov (Ukraina), Comparison analysis of measured coordinates at CCD
4. L. Kazantseva, V. Kislyuk (Ukraina), Comparative analysis of Kyiv database of lunar occultations
5. K. Kholshevnikov, E. Kuznetsov (Russia), Evolution of a two-planetary regular system on a cosmogonic time scale
6. T. Kiseleva, O. Kalinitchenko, M. Mozhaev (Russia), The determination of coordinates of Saturn by the observations of their satellites with 26-inch Refractor at Pulkovo Observatory
7. M. Kocer (Czech Rep.), KLENOT тЙИ practical use of solar system dynamics in follow-up astrometry observations of small solar system bodies
8. V. Protitch-Benishek, Vl. Benishek (Serbia), Transits of Mercury: observations and analysis from Belgrade Astronomical Observatory
9. V. Protitch-Benishek (Serbia), Newcomb's data on ancient eclipses revisited: conclusions
10. M. Soma, T. Hayamizu, T. Setoguchi, T. Hirose (Japan), Precise position of Saturn obtained from a stellar occultation by Tethys
11. M. Vashkov'yak (Russia), Some peculiarities of the evolution of distant satellite orbits in the systems of Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter

1. Alicante University, Alicate, Spain,
2. Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
3. Astronomical Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
4. Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade, Serbia
5. Astronomical Observatory of Urals State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
6. Astronomical Observatory of National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine
7. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, Sevres, France
8. Communications Research Laboratory, Kashima, Japan
9. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Geodesy, Belgrade, Serbia
10. Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
11. George Mason University, USA
12. Hydrometcenter of Russia, Moscow, Russia
13. Institute for Informatics Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia
14. Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
15. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg, Russia
16. Institute of Problems of Mechanics of RAS, Moscow, Russia
17. Institute of Astronomy of RAS, Moscow, Russia
18. Institut de mecanique celeste et de calcul des ephemerides, Paris, France
19. Instituto de Astronomia y Geodesia, Madrid, Spain
20. Institute of Physical Geodesy, Darmstadt, Germany
21. Int. Occ. Tim. Ass., Tokyo, Japan
22. Jap. Occ. Inf. Network, Kagoshima, Japan
23. Klet Observatory, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
24. Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia
25. Lohrmann Observatory, Dresden, Germany
26. Main Astronomical Observatory of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
27. Main Astronomical Observatory of RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
28. Moscow State Aviation Institute, Moscow, Russia
29. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
30. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
31. National Astronomical Observatory, Tokio, Japan
32. Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory, Nikolaev, Ukraine
33. Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
34. Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France
35. Poltava Gravimetrical Observatory, Poltava, Ukraine
36. Puschino Radio Astronomy Observatory, Puschino, Russia
37. Sendai Space Hall, Kagoshima, Japan
38. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, China
39. Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
40. Space Research Center of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
41. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia
42. Turkish National Observatory TUG, Antalya, Turkey
43. Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
44. Universidad Jaume I.de Castellon, Castellon, Spain
45. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
46. U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, USA
47. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria