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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The reader will find in this volume the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, between July 25 and August 6, 1993, under the title From Newton to Chaos: Modern Techniques for Understanding and Coping With Chaos in N-Body Dynamical Systems.

This institute was the latest in a series of meetings held every three years from 1972 to 1990 in dynamical astronomy, theoretical mechanics and celestial mechanics. The proceedings from these institutes have been well-received in the international community of research workers in these disciplines. The present institute was well attended with 15 series of lectures being given by invited speakers: in addition some 40 presentations were made by other participants. The majority of these contributions are included in these proceedings.

(Extracted from the preface, by the editors).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Prelude.

-Part One: Planetary Theory.

-(9 papers).
-Interlude: Remarkable and Spectacular Comets. I.P. Williams.

-Part Two: Dynamics of Asteroids, Comets and Meteors.

-(7 papers).
-Interlude: From Newton's Adjustable Clock to Poincaré's Chaos. V. Szebehely.

-Part Three: Dynamics of Natural and Artificial Satellites.

-(10 papers).

-Part Four: The Three Body Problem.

-(10 papers).
-Interlude: Fractals, Chaos and Quaternions. J.F. Doyle, B.A. Steves, J.Gomatan.

-Part Five: Selected Topics in Dynamics.

-(14 papers).

-Participants and Speakers.

-Author Index.

-Subject Index.

OUR REVIEW

The collection NATO ASI Series (NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series), is the result of the efforts on the part of NATO Science Committee to divulge the most advanced scientific and technological knowledge, in search of a better relationship among the different scientific communities. The series, structured into nine independent collections and published by three well-known international publishers, is constantly enriched by new additions to its bibliographical supply. The collection of physics, prepared by Plenum, is perhaps one of the most diversified sections.

The volume we are dealing with here is # 336 and is dedicated to Henri Poincaré and devoted to the latest mathematical techniques used to examine the influence of chaos in the dynamic systems, systems consisting of N bodies, like those where the planets and other bodies in the Solar System -including artificial satellites- intervene. This is an eminently technical work, situated in the van of the research course, and therefore, is specially adequate for advanced students as well as professionals who want to keep updated about the novelties in these fields.