IPNet Digest Volume 6, Number 01 January 31, 1999 Today's Editor: Patricia K. Lamm Michigan State University Today's Topics: Course: Computational Math driven by Industrial Applications Conference for R.S. Varga: Matrix Theory, Sci. Computation Research Collaboration: Non-linear Systems Identification Call for Papers: Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Imaging Call for Papers: Special Issue on Real-Time Imaging Recent Books: Mechanics and Optimization Position: Center for Research in Scientific Computation, NCSU Table of Contents: Inverse Problems Table of Contents: Surveys on Mathematics for Industry Table of Contents: Numerical Algorithms Table of Contents: Linear Algebra and Its Applications Table of Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems Submissions for IPNet Digest: Mail to ipnet-digest@math.msu.edu Information about IPNet: Mail to ipnet-request@math.msu.edu http://www.mth.msu.edu/ipnet ------------------------------ From: "PROF.HEINZ W. ENGL" Subject: Computational Mathematics driven by Industrial Applications Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 A Course on "Computational Mathematics driven by Industrial Applications" is planned by CIME (International Mathematical Summer Center) in Martina Franca (Italy) during June 21-27, 1999. The Directors of the Course are Vincenzo Capasso (Univ. of Milano), Heinz Engl (Univ. of Linz), and Jacques Periaux (Dassault Aviation). COURSES The following sets of 5/6 hours lectures each in English will be offered 1. Paths, trees and flows: graph optimization problems with industrial applications, by Prof. Rainer BURKARD (Technische Universitaet Graz) 2. New computational concepts, adaptive differential equation solvers and virtual labs, by Prof. Peter DEUFLHARD (Konrad Zuse Zentrum Berlin) 3. Computational methods for aerodynamic analysis and design, by Prof. Antony JAMESON (Stanford University) 4. Mathematical problems in industry, by Jacques Luis LIONS (College de France et Dassault Aviation, Paris) 5. Wavelets transform and cosine transform in signal and image processing, by Gilbert STRANG SEMINARS A set of two hours seminars in English will be offered too a. Mathematics of the crystallization process of polymers, by Vincenzo CAPASSO b. Inverse problems: regularization methods and applications in industry, by Heinz ENGL c. Mathematics of Glass, by Robert MATTHEIJ ( Technische Universitaet Eindhoven) d. Combining game theory and genetic algorithms for solving multiobjective shape optimization problems in aerodynamics Engineering, by Jacques PERIAUX. For details about contents and references please refer to CIME at the address below. LECTURE NOTES will be available as draft at the Course and will appear soon after in the CIME subSeries of the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Mathematics. APPLICATIONS Those who want to attend should fill the following application form to CIME Foundation % Dipartimento di Matematica "U.Dini" Viale Morgagni 67/a 50137 FIRENZE, Italy tel. +39 055434975 or +39 0554237123 fax +39 055434975 e-mail cime@udini.math.unifi.it ================================== Title of the Course ......................... Family name............................. First Name..................................... Age.......................................... Gender.................................. Mailing Address.............................. Fax...................................... e-mail........................................... Present Professional Position.................. Current Interest in the field of the session................. If you apply for a grant indicate : Citizenship............................. Residence in the last one year..................... ================================== For info's visit http://www.math.unifi.it/cime/welcome.to.cime not later than April 30, 1999. NO FEES are due. An important consideration in the acceptance of the application is the scientific relevance of the Course to the field of interest of the applicant. Applicants are requested therefore to submit along with their application, a scientific curriculum and a letter of recommendation. There is a chance of having your expenses partially covered by the European Community (EU) . The action of the programme is intended to support young scientists up to 35 years old. Researchers should be citizen of a member state of the EU or reside in such a state for at least one year. Please quote in the application the need of support and conditions for eligibility. SITE Martina Franca is a delightful baroque town made of white houses of Apulian spontaneous architecture. It is the major and aristocratic centre of the "Murgia dei Trulli" standing on a hill which dominates the well known Itria Valley , which is spotted with "trulli" typical dry stone houses of conical shape which go back to the 15th century. A masterpiece of the baroque architecture is the ducal palace where the Course will be hosted. Martina Franca belongs to the province of Taranto, one of the major centres of Magna Grecia, particularly devoted to Mathematics. Taranto houses an outstanding museum of Magna Grecia with fabulous collections of gold manufactures. LODGING Special rates are offered by Park Hotel San Michele (four star hotel): Lit. 70.000 full board for accommodation in double room Lit 100.000 full board for accommodation in single room Participants are requested to made their reservations directly at the hotel (CIME may reimburse selected participants - see above) tel +39 0804807053 fax +39 0804808895 Prof.Dr.Heinz W. Engl E-Mail: engl@indmath.uni-linz.ac.at Institut fuer Industriemathematik secretary:nikolaus@indmath.uni-linz.ac.at Johannes-Kepler-Universitaet Phone:+43-(0)732-2468...,ext.9219 or 693, Altenbergerstrasse 69 secretary: ext.9220; as Dean: ext.3220 A-4040 Linz Fax:ext. 855, in Dean's affairs:ext.3225 Oesterreich / Austria home phone: +43-(0)732-245518 World Wide Web: http://www.indmath.uni-linz.ac.at/ ------------------------------ From: Lothar Reichel Subject: Conference in honor of Richard Varga Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 MATHEMATICAL JOURNEY THROUGH ANALYSIS, MATRIX THEORY AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION: a conference on the occasion of Richard S. Varga's 70th birthday The meeting will take place at Kent State University on March 25-27, 1999, and will focus on the many research areas in which Richard Varga has made important contributions. The conference will provide an opportunity for researchers in these different yet related areas to exchange ideas. More than 30 speakers have already agreed to give presentations. A banquet dinner will be held on Friday, March 26. The journal Numerical Algorithms will publish a special issue dedicated to Richard Varga. Further information about the conference is available at the web site http://etna.mcs.kent.edy/~conference If you are interested in participating in the conference or coming to the banquet, please notify Daniela Calvetti (dxc57@po.cwru.edu) or Lothar Reichel (reichel@mcs.kent.edu) as soon as possible. Your e-mail message should indicate whether you would like to ___ participate in the meeting, ___ present a talk at the meeting, ___ submit a paper to the special issue. Please contact Daniela Calvetti or Lothar Reichel if you have any questions. ------------------------------ From: "Apartsyn A.S." Subject: Integral Models for Non-linear Dynamic Systems Identification Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 Dear colleagues, We are seeking partners to work together in the field of the treatment the Integral Models for Non-linear Dynamic Systems Identification. We hope to organize a type of Virtual International Research Group. "Virtual" means that in the beginning stage we can connect through Internet. We have a lot of experience in the analytical and numerical investigation, Computer Algebra systems, construction of approximate solutions of integral and differential equations, dynamic systems, modeling of the process of heat exchange. Experimenters are welcome especially. http://isem.sei.irk.ru Laboratory of Ill-posed Problems of Computational Mathematics, Institute of Energy Systems Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, 130 Lermontov str, 664033 phone: (+7 3952) 465 440 e-mails: apartsyn@isem.sei.irk.ru (Anatoly S. Apartsyn, Ph.D., Head of Lab.) sidorov@netscape.net (Denis N. Sidorov, Ph.D. students, www.angelfire.com/sd/denissidorovhpage) ------------------------------ From: "D. L. Snyder" Subject: Information-Theoretic Imaging Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 Call for papers for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on Information-Theoretic Imaging The Transactions on Information Theory is soliciting original papers for a special issue to be published in 2000 on information-theoretic imaging. The last decade has witnessed impressive advances in statistical imaging and in statistical, model-based image processing in general. Recent research has addressed two categories of problems: 1, novel applications of fundamental statistical and information theoretic principles to imaging; and 2, exploring optimal and sub-optimal methods for extracting information from intrinsically high dimensional image data. In the first category are topics such as hierarchical image modeling and representation,image compression and coding, minimax analysis, robustness analysis, learning theory, statistical pattern recognition and pattern matching, inference from compressed image-data, and fundamental performance bounds on estimation, detection, classification and compression. In the second category are topics such as approximation theory for multidimensional objects, multi-resolution data analysis, content based indexing of image databases, projection pursuit methods, and image reconstruction from incomplete and noisy data; for example, from magnitude-only Fourier data or tomographic projections. The first goal of this special issue is to publish original papers addressing fundamental theoretical and computational aspects of such problems and at the same time raising the awareness for such research within the information-theory community. The special issue will complement the upcoming Information Theory Workshop on Detection, Estimation, Classification and Imaging, to be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in February, 1999. A long-term goal is to build a broad, high-quality forum for addressing imaging problems of fundamental information-theoretic significance and to help bridge the current, significant gap that exists between emerging, advanced theoretical concepts and image processing practice. Schedule: First call for papers: November, 1998 Submission deadline: September 1, 1999 Notification of decisions: February, 2000 Publication: August, 2000 Manuscripts should be submitted by August 1, 1999 to the Guest Editor-in-Chief: Donald L. Snyder Department of Electrical Engineering, Box 1127 Washington University One Brookings Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899 The Guest Associate-Editors for the special issue will be: Alfred O. Hero III Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The University of Michigan 1301 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 Pierre Moulin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2265 Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews Urbana, IL 61801 Jose M. F. Moura Department of Electrical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890 Joseph A. O'Sullivan Department of Electrical Engineering, Box 1127 Washington University One Brookings Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899 Contributed by: D. L. Snyder (dls@ee.wustl.edu) ------------------------------ From: Emanuele Salerno Subject: Special Issue, Real-Time Imaging, EXTENDED DEADLINE Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 I hereby submit the following Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal Real-Time Imaging. Please note that the deadline for submission has been postponed from 31 October 1998 to 31 March 1999. Best Regards Emanuele Salerno Real-Time Imaging http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/journals/ri.htm Special Issue on "Fast Energy-Minimization-Based Imaging and Vision Techniques" EXTENDED DEADLINE Call for Papers Energy-minimization methods are powerful tools in all domains of imaging and computer vision. Many of them descend from Bayesian or variational approaches to solve the related inverse problems. Many numerical algorithms implementing these methods have been developed in recent years for several applications, but, because of their exceedingly high computational complexity, their practical interest has been limited to those cases where real-time performance is not required. However, there are many applications for which the high quality of the solutions achievable with these methods is strongly desirable, and true real-time is not a strict constraint. Indeed, the term 'real-time' often has a relative meaning, depending on the application considered, the actual requirement being to have a 'reasonable' elapsed time. These considerations notwithstanding, the speed performance of many energy-minimization algorithms is at present not sufficient for most applications. On the other hand, the development of computing power both in dedicated and general-purpose hardware is about to enable us to take some of these techniques to practical usefulness. This justifies, from a practical point of view, the continued research interest in energy-minimization methods. Two main strategies can be identified in order to face these problems. From an architectural point of view, an effort should be made to fully exploit existing architectures for the implementation of the algorithms, or to design special hardware best suited for particular tasks. From an algorithmic point of view, the search for new mathematical models and/or computational schemes should be directed towards a better tractability of the problems. Moreover, the generality of some approaches can be reduced to obtain algorithms that are either intrinsically less expensive or more suitable for particular high-performance machines. All the contributions to solve (or approaching a solution of) one of the problems raised above are welcome to this special issue. A (not exhaustive) list of suggested sub-topics is the following: 1. Algorithmic aspects 1.1 Mathematical models 1.2 Fast numerical procedures 1.3 Specialized algorithms 1.4 Parallel implementations 1.5 Optimization of cooperating parallel and serial processes 2. Architectural aspects 2.1 Hardware development methodologies 2.2 Distributed computing approaches 2.3 Innovative architectures 2.4 VLSI implementations 3. Applications 3.1 Pattern recognition 3.2 Image segmentation 3.3 Autonomous vehicle guidance 3.4 Robot motion control 3.5 Remote sensing 3.6 Medical imaging 3.7 Industrial inspection 3.8 Visual data bases 3.9 Image coding All enquiries can be addressed to the guest editor, Emanuele Salerno, at the following email address: e.salerno@iei.pi.cnr.it Manuscript Submission Authors should send five copies of their manuscripts to Dr. E. Salerno, at the address below. Each manuscript should contain a cover page with the title and an abstract, and the indication of the two sub-topics that best match the subject treated in the paper (as said, the above list is not exhaustive). Emanuele Salerno (Real-Time Imaging) IEI-CNR Via Santa Maria, 46 I-56126 Pisa, Italy Submission deadline All contributions should be received by 31 March 1999. ------------------------------ From: Georg Stavroulakis Subject: Announcement: recent books mechanics and optimization Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 The following relatively new books on the area of mechanics and optimization may be of interest to the IPNET community V.F. Dem'yanov, G.E. Stavroulakis, L.N. Polyakova and P.D. Panagiotopoulos: Quasidifferentiability and nonsmooth modelling in mechanics, engineering and economics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 0-7923-4093-0 More information and online order: http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-4093-0 E.S. Mistakidis and G.E. Stavroulakis: Nonconvex optimization in mechanics. Smooth and nonsmooth algorithms, heuristics and engineering applications by the F.E.M. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-7923-4812-5 More information and online order: http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-4812-5 Dr Ing Georgios E. Stavroulakis Institute for Applied Mechanics,Technical University Braunschweig Email g.stavroulakis@tu-bs.de * URL http://www.tu-bs.de/~i5042301 ------------------------------ From: "Michelle Hein" Subject: Postdoctoral Appointment at NC State Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 Program Assistant Center for Research in Scientific Computation North Carolina State University Campus Box 8205 Raleigh, NC 27695-8205 Recruitment Ad North Carolina State University Center for Research in Scientific Computation The Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University in collaboration with MedAcoustics, Inc., Raleigh, NC, expects to make a University-Industry Cooperative Postdoctoral Research appointment starting August 16, 1999 (availability of the position is contingent upon funding). The appointment will be in the area of applied mathematics and scientific computation. The successful candidate for this position is expected to participate in a collaborative multidisciplinary team carrying out fundamental research investigations to provide a better understanding and predictive capability of the dynamics of wave propagation from coronary stenoses through human body tissues. The research efforts will involve the modeling of wave propagation in a viscoelastic, heterogeneous, and anisotropic medium, development of computational algorithms for both forward and inverse problem analytic studies, and the design of corresponding experiments for model validation and verification. Since the project requires physical modeling, theoretical analysis and computational skills, candidates who are outstanding in at least one of these areas and willing and able to learn quickly in the others will be given highest priority. This position offers a unique opportunity for multidisciplinary mentored post-doctoral research on a mathematical project arising in an industrial/university collaborative effort. Applicants should send a vita and brief description of research interests and have three letters of recommendation sent to: Search Committee, Attn: Hien T. Tran, Center for Research in Scientific Computation/Department of Mathematics, Box 8205, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205; e-mail: tran@control.math.ncsu.edu. Applications will be considered at any time after January 15, 1999, as funding becomes available. NCSU is an AA/EOE. However, if this position is funded by NSF, the successful applicant must be a US citizen or lawfully admitted permanent resident alien of the US by Jan. 1, 1999. In its commitment to diversity and equity, NCSU and the CRSC seek applications from women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should contact Rory Schnell, CRSC, Tel: 919-515-5289, Fax: 919-515-1636, e-mail: rlschnel@eos.ncsu.edu. ------------------------------ From: "Janet Thomas" Subject: Contents list for inverse Problems vol 15 no 1 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 Inverse Problems February 1999 Volume 15, Issue 1 Table of Contents NOTE FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD LETTER TO THE EDITOR Multi-peakons and a theorem of Stieltjes R Beals, D H Sattinger and J Szmigielski INVITED PAPERS FROM THE CONFERENCE ON INVERSE PROBLEMS, CONTROL AND SHAPE OPTIMIZATION, CARTHAGE, TUNISIA, 8--10 APRIL 1998 Guest Editors' introduction M Jaoua and J Jaffre Some inverse problems for the diffusion equation V Isakov Coefficient identification in some partial differential equations from partial boundary measurements A El Badia A mixed least-squares method for an inverse problem of a nonlinear beam equation R E Ewing, T Lin and Y Lin Estimation of relative permeabilities in three-phase flow in porous media G Chavent, J Jaffre and S Jan-Jegou An inverse Robin problem for Laplace's equation: theoretical results and numerical methods D Fasino and G Inglese Application of a posteriori error estimation for structural model updating P Ladeveze and A Chouaki Reciprocity principle and crack identification S Andrieux, A Ben Abda and H D Bui Identification of 2D cracks by elastic boundary measurements A Ben Abda, H Ben Ameur and M Jaoua How can the meromorphic approximation help to solve some 2D inverse problems for the Laplacian? L Baratchart, J Leblond, F Mandrea and E B Saff Inverse scattering for elastic plane cracks C J S Alves and T Ha-Duong On attenuation-matched inversion methods of diffusive wavefields A Litman and D Lesselier Dynamical shape control in non-cylindrical hydrodynamics R Dziri and J-P Zolesio Topological derivatives for elliptic problems J Sokolowski and A Zochowski PAPERS Two-dimensional inverse problem of dynamics for families in parametric form M-C Anisiu and A Pal Riemannian curvature and stability of monoparametric families of trajectories G Bozis and G Pavliotis Inverse problems related to crystallization of polymers M Burger, V Capasso and H W Engl Backlund transformations for the second Painleve hierarchy: a modified truncation approach P A Clarkson, N Joshi and A Pickering Nonlinear heat conduction with time-dependent flux S De Lillo and G Di Gregorio On the invertibility of Doppler imaging: an approach based on generalized tomography L Desbat and C Mennessier Perturbation theory for the Benjamin--Ono equation D J Kaup, T I Lakoba and Y Matsuno Rational reflection coefficients in inverse scattering for a Dirac system A H Khater, A A Abdalla, D K Callebaut and A G Ramady The inverse nodal problem on the smoothness of the potential function C K Law, C-L Shen and C-F Yang Uniqueness of electromagnetic inversion by local surface measurements J Liukkonen First-kind Fredholm integral equations with kernel of Hankel type A Losi and A Sacchetti Parameter identification for an elliptic partial differential equation with distributed noisy data R Luce and S Perez On the regularization of nonlinear ill-posed problems via inexact Newton iterations A Rieder Bigger uncertainties and the Big Bang L Tenorio, P B Stark and C H Lineweaver INVERSE PROBLEMS NEWSLETTER Why not visit the Inverse Problems home page at http://www.iop.org/Journals/ip? Janet Thomas Production Editor Institute of Physics Publishing Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 930 1081 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4318 E-mail: janet.thomas@ioppublishing.co.uk WWW: http://www.iop.org ------------------------------ From: "PROF.HEINZ W. ENGL" Subject: Contents: Surveys on Mathematics for Industry Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 Surveys on Mathematics for Industry 1998 Vol. 7, No. 4 Table of Contents Mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of viscous sintering processes R.M.M. Mattheij and G.A.L. van de Vorst A computational method for high-frequency oleodynamics: application to hydraulic-shock-absorber designs B. Koren, P.F.M. Michielsen, J.-W. Kars, and P. Wesseling Mathematical optimization in robotics: towards automated high-speed motion planning M.C. Steinbach, H.G. Bock, G.V. Kostin, and R.W. Longman Surveys on Mathematics for Industry 1998 Vol. 8, No. 1 Table of Contents Finite-volume schemes for compressible fluid flow A. Meister, T. Sonar Modeling and optimal design of diffractive optical structures G. Bao, D.C. Dobson Inverse Problems of vibrational spectroscopy as nonlinear ill-posed problems I.V. Kochikov, G.M. Kuramshina, A.G. Yagola Heinz W. Engl, Editor-in-Chief ------------------------------ From: Baltzer Science Subject: Numerical Algorithms contents Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 Numerical Algorithms 1998 Volume 18-2 Table of Contents Upper bounds for convergence rates of acceleration methods with initial iterations Avram Sidi and Yair Shapira Singular integral transforms and fast numerical algorithms Prabir Daripa and Daoud Mashat An efficient and novel numerical method for quasiconformal mappings of doubly connected domains Prabir Daripa and Daoud Mashat Incomplete projection algorithms for solving the convex feasibility problem Ubaldo M. Garc=EDa-Palomares and Francisco J. Gonz=E1lez-Casta=F1o High performance solution of the complex symmetric eigenproblem Ilan Bar-On and Marcin Paprzycki More information about contents, submission and preparation of papers can be found on http://www.baltzer.nl/numa/ Please direct enquiries about subscription and other issues to subscribe@baltzer.nl Sincerely, Baltzer Science Publishers ------------------------------ From: Hans Schneider Subject: LAA contents Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 Linear Algebra and Its Applications December 1998 Vol 287 Issue 1-3 Table of Contents Special issue celebrating the 60th birthday of LUDWIG ELSNER Ludwig Elsner and his contributions to core, applied and numerical linear algebra A Bunse-Gerstner, V Mehrmann Schur-like forms for matrix lie groups, lie algebras and jordan algebras G Ammar SR and SZ algorithms for the symplectic (butterfly) eigenproblem P Benner Orthogonality of matrices and some distance problems R Bhatia On finite-dimensional commutative non-hermitian fusion algebras T Bhattacharyya On a conjugate gradient-type method for solving complex symmetric linear systems A Bunse-Gerstner Hamiltonian square roots of skew-hamiltonian matrices H Fassbender, N Mackey Spaces of symmetric matrices containing a nonzero matrix of bounded rank S Friedland Common invariant subspaces of two matrices A George Stability of block LDL^T factorization of a symmetric tridiagonal matrix NJ Higham Polynomial characterizations of the approximate eigenvectors by the refined Arnoldi method and an implicitly restarted refined Arnoldi algorithm Z Jia Convex combinations of matrices - full rank characterization T Szulc On the computation of the optimal H_ norms for two feedback control problems Wenwei Lin Relations between perron-frobenius results for matrix pencils V Mehrmann Diagrammatic presentation of inner and outer inverses: S-diagrams SK Mitra Two-sided bounds on the inverses of diagonally dominant tridiagonal matrices R Nabben The convergence of general products of matrices and the weak ergodicity of Markov chains M Neumann, H Schneider A note on the extended convergence of SOR for two-periodic Markov chains W Niethammer Simultaneous schur stability Mauhsiang Shih The effects of inexact linear solvers in vector algorithms P Smit, MHC Paardekooper Symmetric schemes for computing the minimum eigenvalue of a symmetric Toeplitz matrix H Voss Canonical angles of unitary spaces and perturbations of direct complements HK Wimmer ContentsDirect web form is located at: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ContentsDirect http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ContentsDirect http://www.elsevier.co.jp/locate/ContentsDirect Contributed by: Hans Schneider hans@math.wisc.edu. Department of Mathematics 608-262-1402 (Work) Van Vleck Hall 608-271-7252 (Home) 480 Lincoln Drive 608-263-8891 (Work FAX) University of Wisconsin-Madison 608-271-8477 (Home FAX) Madison WI 53706 USA http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans (URL) ------------------------------ From: Secretary Support - Magrijn Subject: Journal MCSS Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems 1998 Vol. 11, No. 4 Table of Contents Complexity of identification of linear systems with rational transfer functions K.J. Harrison, J.R. Partington and J.A. Ward Analysis of the local robustness of stability for flows A.D.B. Paice and F.R. Wirth A uniqueness result for the Isaacs equation corresponding to nonlinear H-infinity control W.M.McEneaney Dissipative control systems synthesis with full state feedback S. Yuliar, M.R. James, and J.W. Helton A Brouwer domain invariance approach to boundary behavior of Nyquist maps for uncertain systems N. Fathpour and E.A. Jonckheere On Hadamard powers of polynomials J. Gregor and J. Tiser INFORMATION Information on MCSS including tables of contents is available at its home pages: www.cwi.nl/~schuppen/mcss/mcss.html www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mcss.html Address for submissions: J.H. van Schuppen (Co-Editor MCSS) CWI P.O.Box 94079 1090 GB Amsterdam The Netherlands Bradley Dickinson, Eduardo Sontag, Jan van Schuppen (Editors) Contributed by Jan H. van Schuppen (J.H.van.Schuppen@cwi.nl) ------- end -------