Contact: roberto.peron[AT]inaf.itLocation: Florence, Italy
Dear colleague,
the 46th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly will be held on 1 – 9 August 2026, in Firenze, Italy. As scientific organizers of the COSPAR session H0.4 “Advanced Methods for Geodesy, Metrology, Navigation and Fundamental Physics” and acknowledging your expertise in the related scientific fields, we would like to cordially invite you to submit an abstract for session H0.4.
Event Description:
In this Scientific Event, we discuss advanced methods applied to the precise measurement of the gravitational field on ground and in space. These include applications in gravimetry, gradiometry, reference systems realization, time standards, high-precision frequency comparisons, precise orbit determination, possible variation of fundamental ‘constants’, testing equivalence principle and theories of gravitation. We invite presentations to illustrate the principles and state of the art of these novel techniques, like atom interferometry, optical clocks, relativistic geodesy with clocks or chronometric levelling, quantum optics, intersatellite links, interplanetary laser ranging, planetary gravimetry. We also welcome presentations on further applications and invite contributions covering the theoretical description of these new methods, introducing novel theoretical concepts as well as new modelling schemes.
We are looking forward to meet you at COSPAR 2026.
Dr. Roberto Peron
INAF-IAPS, Roma
Prof. Dr. Juergen Mueller
Institute of Geodesy, University Hannover