Mathematical Methods in Systems, Optimization, and Control

Biographical and personal notes -- The Carath??odory-Julia theorem and the network realization formula in two variables / J. Agler -- Nevanlinna-pick interpolation via graph spaces and Kre??n-space geometery: a survey / J.A. Ball and Q. Fang -- A brief history of the strong Szeg?? limit theorem / E. Basor -- Riccati or square root equation? The semi-separable case / P. Dewilde -- Spectral inclusion theorems / R.G. Douglas and J. Eschmeier -- Tutorial on a Nehari problem and related reproducing Kernel spaces / H. Dyn -- Optimal solutions to matrix-valued Nehari problems and related limit theorems / A.E. Frzho, S. ter Horst and M.A. Kaashoek -- On theorems of Halmos and Roth / P.A. Fuhrmann and U. Helmke -- Pfister's theorem fails in the free case / M. Harrison -- Free analysis, convexity and LMI domains / J.W. Helton, I. Klep and S. McCullough -- Traces of commutators of integral operators--the aftermath / R. Howe -- Information states in control theory: from classical to quantum / M.R. James -- Convex hulls of quadratically parameterized sets with quadratic constraints / J. Nie -- Computing linear matrix representations of Helton-Vinnikov curves / D. Plaumann, B. Sturmfels and C. Vinzant -- Positive completion problems over C*-algebras / L. Rodman and H. J. Woerdeman -- Fractional-order systems and the internal model principle / M. S. Takyar and T.T. Georgiou -- Optimal mass transport for problems in control, statistical estimation, and image analysis / E. Tannenbaum, T. Georgiou and A. Tannenbaum -- LMI representations of convex semialgebraic sets and determinantal representations of algebraic hypersurfaces: past, present, and future / V. Vinnikou -- Some analysable instances of [mu]-synthesis / N.J. Young.