IAU General Assembly

IAU XXIX General Assembly

Body Solar system bodies are observed at many scattering angles. The reflection and polarization change withphase angle of light scattered from particulates has been studied for a century in the lab in efforts tounderstand clouds, aerosols, planetary ring systems and planetary regoliths. These effects must beunderstood in order to infer surface properties from astronomical data. The...

Beyond the standard IAU framework

We discuss three conceivable scenarios of extension and/or modification of the IAU relativistic resolutions on time scales and spatial coordinates beyond the Standard IAU Framework. These scenarios include: (1) the formalism of the monopole and dipole moment transformations of the metric tensor replacing the scale transformations of time and space coordinates; (2) implementing the parameterized...

General Assembly, Third Committee

General translational assembly planning

General Translational Assembly Planning Achim Schweikard, Fabian Schwarzer Informatik Technische Universit at M unchen, 80290 M unchen [email protected] Abstract: An exact and practical method for translational motion planning with many degrees of freedom is derived. It is shown that certain D dimensional arrangements of hyperplanes can be searched in the following way: only...

General Assembly, Third Committee

The scale of maternal mortality dwarfs the number of ‘disappearances’ and death penalty cases. Yet ‘disappearances’ and death penalty cases attract much more attention from the human rights community than preventable maternal mortality. ‘Disappearances’, for example, have a UN human rights ‘special procedure’, as well as international and regional human rights treaties. And so they should. ‘Dis...