In years, many researchers in material science have focused their attention on the study of composite materials, equilibrium of crystals and crack distribution in continua subject to loads. At the same time, several new issues in computer vision and image processing have been studied in depth.

A collection of 31 research papers that reflects the author's interest and influence in various fields of analysis such as degree and fixed point theory, nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems, abstract evolutions equations, quasi-linear parabolic systems, fluid dynamics, Fourier analysis, and the theory of function spaces.

The articles in this volume reflect a subsequent development after a scientific meeting entitled Carleman Estimates and Control Theory, held in Cartona in September 1999. The 14 research-level articles, written by experts, focus on new results on Carleman estimates and their applications to uniqueness and controlla bility of partial differential equations and systems. The main topics are unique continuation for elliptic PDEs and systems, con trol theory and inverse problems. New results on strong uniqueness for second or higher order operators are explored in detail in several papers. In the...