High Performance Clocks with Special Emphasis on Geodesy and Geophysics and Applications to Other Bodies of the Solar System

Foreword.- Preface.- Clocks in Space for Tests of Fundamental Physics.-  Search for Varying Constants of Nature from Astronomical Observation of Molecules.- High Performance Clocks and Gravity Field Determination.- The Application of Coherent Local Time for Optical Time Transfer and the Quantification of Systematic Errors in Satellite Laser Ranging.- Data Timing, Time Transfer and On-board Clock Monitoring for Space Astrometry with Gaia.- Pulsar Timing and its application for Navigation and Gravitational Wave Detection.- Very Long Baseline Interferometry: Dependencies on frequency stability.- Survey of Capabilities and Applications of Accurate Clocks: Directions for Planetary Science.

Rafael Rodrigo received his PhD at the University of Granada in 1979. His scientific career began at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, of which he was director from 1990 to 2004, and where he was directly involved in the direction of many projects on Planetary Atmospheres and Solar System Exploration. He has been the President of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) from 2008 to 2012. He has been or is involved in many space missions (Rosetta, Cassini-Huygens, Mars Express, Bepi-Colombo, JUICE...). He is currently a Research Professor at the Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC), Madrid, and the Executive Director of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland. He is the author or coauthor of more than 300 scientific publications in international journals.

Véronique Dehant works at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, where she is Responsible for the Operational Directorate "Reference Systems and Planetary Science." She is also Extraordinary Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. She is Academician (Royal Academy of Belgium; Science class) since 2010 and was awarded with several prizes, including the Descartes Prize of the European Union in 2003. In 2015, she has obtained a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, with the project RotaNut: Rotation and Nutation of a wobbly Earth. Veronique Dehant is author of 164 refereed publications, 219 publications in un-refereed proceedings, 84 other publications; i.e. 467 published publications all together, as well as author of a book on "Precession, Nutation and Wobble of the Earth," published by Cambridge University Press.

Leonid Gurvits obtained MSc degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Moscow Aviation Institute, and Astronomy from the Moscow State University, both in 1979, and PhD in Astrophysics from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, USSR, in 1991. He began his professional career at the Space Research Institute in Moscow, continued at