Offers a view of research in control and estimation of partial differential equations. This work addresses topics including: control and stability of hyperbolic systems related to elasticity, linear and nonlinear; control and identification of nonlinear parabolic systems; and, exact and approximate controllability and observability.

Consisting of 23 refereed contributions, this volume offers a broad and diverse view of current research in control and estimation of partial differential equations. Topics addressed include, but are not limited to - control and stability of hyperbolic systems related to elasticity, linear and nonlinear; - control and identification of nonlinear parabolic systems; - exact and approximate controllability, and observability; - Pontryagin's maximum principle and dynamic programming in PDE; and - numerics pertinent to optimal and suboptimal control problems. This volume is primarily geared toward...