Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems

State Estimation and Tracking Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.- A Well-posedness Result for a Shear Wave Propagation Model.- Mesh Adaptation for Parameter Identification Problems.- A SQP-Augmented Lagrangian Method for Optimal Control of Semilinear Elliptic Variational Inequalities.- On the Long Time Behavior of Approximating Dynamical Systems.- Error Estimates in Space and Time for Tracking-type Control of the Instationary Stokes System.- Modeling and Control of Asymptotic Shells.- Unbounded Observers and Riccati Operators in Nonreflexive Spaces.- Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation Based Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Analysis.- Time and Norm Optimal Controls for Linear Parabolic Equations: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions.- Feedback Stabilization for the 2D Oseen Equations: Additional Remarks.- Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle via Singular Perturbations.- Level Set Methods for Variational Problems and Applications.- Boundary Observability of Compactly Perturbed Systems.- Some Shape Optimal Control Computations for Navier-Stokes Flows.- Model Development for the Positioning Mechanisms in an Atomic Force Microscope.