Mathematical methods in systems, optimization, and control festschrift in honor of J. William Helton /

This volume is dedicated to Bill Helton on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. It contains biographical material, a list of Bill's publications, a detailed survey of Bill's contributions to operator theory, optimization and control, and 19 technical articles. Most of the technical ar...

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Other Authors: Dym, H. 1938-, Oliveira, Mauricio C. de., Putinar, Mihai, 1955-, Helton, J. William, 1944-, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Basel ; London : Springer, 2012.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Series: Operator theory, advances and applications ; 222.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1.
  • Biographical and Personal Notes
  • Helton's Bibliography /
  • Harry Dym, Mauricio C. de Oliveira and Mihai Putinar
  • Personal Notes /
  • Miroslav Krstic
  • After Dinner Biographical Notes /
  • Harry Dym, Mauricio C. de Oliveira and Mihai Putinar
  • Bill's Early Work /
  • Harry Dym, Mauricio C. de Oliveira and Mihai Putinar
  • List of Contributors /
  • Harry Dym, Mauricio C. de Oliveira and Mihai Putinar
  • Part 2.
  • Technical Papers
  • The Carathéodory-Julia Theorem and the Network Realization Formula in Two Variables /
  • Jim Agler
  • Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation via Graph Spaces and Kreĭn-space Geometry: A Survey /
  • Joseph A. Ball and Quanlei Fang
  • A Brief History of the Strong Szegö Limit Theorem /
  • Estelle Basor
  • Riccati or Square Root Equation? The Semi-separable Case /
  • Patrick Dewilde
  • Spectral Inclusion Theorems /
  • Ronald G. Douglas and Jörg Eschmeier
  • Tutorial on a Nehari Problem and Related Reproducing Kernel Spaces /
  • Harry Dym
  • Optimal Solutions to Matrix-valued Nehari Problems and Related Limit Theorems /
  • A.E. Frazho, 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 /
  • Martin Harrison
  • Free Analysis, Convexity and LMI Domains /
  • J. William Helton, Igor Klep and Scott McCullough
  • Traces of Commutators of Integral Operators
  • the Aftermath /
  • Roger Howe
  • Information States in Control Theory: From Classical to Quantum /
  • M.R. James
  • Convex Hulls of Quadratically Parameterized Sets With Quadratic Constraints /
  • Jiawang Nie
  • Computing Linear Matrix Representations of Helton-Vinnikov Curves /
  • Daniel Plaumann, Bernd Sturmfels and Cynthia Vinzant
  • Positive Completion Problems Over C*-algebras /
  • L. Rodman and H.J. Woerdeman
  • Fractional-order Systems and the Internal Model Principle /
  • Mir Shahrouz Takyar and Tryphon T. Georgiou
  • Optimal Mass Transport for Problems in Control, Statistical Estimation, and Image Analysis /
  • Emmanuel Tannenbaum, Tryphon Georgiou and Allen Tannenbaum
  • LMI Representations of Convex Semialgebraic Sets and Determinantal Representations of Algebraic Hypersurfaces: Past, Present, and Future /
  • Victor Vinnikov
  • Some Analysable Instances of [mu]-synthesis /
  • N.J. Young.