Professional Activities

Editorships

Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 1982-1994
Associate Editor, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Springer-Verlag, since 1984
Associate Editor, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, since 1985
Associate Editor, Computational Optimization and Applications (Kluwer), since 1991
Associate Editor, Archives of Control Sciences, since 1992
Associate Editor, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science since 1992
Associate Editor, Discrete and Continuous Dynamic Systems, since 1994
Associate Editor, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, since 1994
Associate Editor, Abstract and Applied Analysis, since 1995
Associate Editor, Transactions on Automatic Control, 1993-2001 Editor in Large since 2001
Associate Editor, Journal Mathematical Analysis and Applications, since 1998
Associate Editor, Systems and Control Letters, since 1998
Associate Editor, Automatica , 1998-2003
Associate Editor, Nonlinear Analysis , since 2001
Associate Editor, Applicable Analysis , since 2002
Associate Editor, Nonlinear Studies , since 2002
Associate Editor, Control and Cybernetics, since 2005
Associate Editor, International Journal of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, since 2006
Set Value and Variational Analysis, Springer, since 2008
Abstract Analysis (electronic journal), since 2008
Editor of Conference Proceedings Series: Computational Techniques in Distributed System, IFIP WG7.2-Springer-Verlag, 1987-1992
Editor of Special Volume, New Developments in Control of PDEs, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Springer Verlag, 2008

Offices held

Chair of TC7 Committee On Modelling and Optimization, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) with headquarters based in Geneva, Switzerland, since 2001
Chair of the Working Group WG.7.2, TC7 IFIP: Computational Techniques in Distributed Systems, since 1989
National Science Foundation: Member of PYI (Principal Young Investigator's Program) Panels, Member of Special Panel on Perspectives and Trends in Control Theory, 1988, PDE panels, CBMS (Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences) Panel, 2003,2004.
Member of the Nominating Committee for the Kyoto Prize, The Innamori Foundation, 1996, 1999, 2003
US Representative in IFIP, since 1996
IFIP Representative to FOCUS - Federation on Computing in the United States, 1996-2000
ISAACS (International Society for Analysis, Applications and Computations) Board of Directors, since 1997
ACM's Representative to IFIP, 2000-2003
AMS Southeastern Section Program Committee, 1999-2001
International Advisory Board, Polish Academy of Sciences
Nominating Committee for 2008 Japan Prize, by The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan (JSTF).
Member of CBMS-SIAM Panels and NSF Panels.

Member of the International Scientific Program Committee

International Conference on Boundary Control and Boundary Variations, IFIP sponsored conference, Universite de Nice, Nice, France, June 10-13, 1986
Conference on Control Problems for Systems Described by PDE's, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Feb. 3-6, 1986 (Chair)
International Conference on Control of Partial Differential Equations, IFIP sponsored conference, Santiago de Campostella, Spain, July 6-9, 1987
IIASA Conference on Modelling and Inverse Problems, Laxenburg, Austria, July 24-29, 1989 (Co-Chair)
IFIP Conference on Control and Stabilization, Clermont Ferrand, France, June 20-23, 1988
IFIP Conference on Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations, Irsee, Germany, April 9-12, 1990
IFIP-TC7 Conference on Control Theory of Distributed Parameter Systems and Applications, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 6-9, 1990
International Conference on Boundary Control and Boundary Variations, organized by CNRS and Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia-Antipolis, France, October 15-17, 1990
15th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Zurich, Switzerland, Sept 2-6, 1991
16th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Compiegne, France July 5-9, 1993
International Conference on Boundary Control and Boundary Variations, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 8-12, 1992
IFIP Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Rabat (Morocco), Dec. 15-17, 1993
IFIP Workshop on Control of PDE's Santander (Spain), September 5-9, 1994 (Chair)
IFIP Conference on Control of PDE's, Trento (Italy), Jan. 4-9, 1993
IFIP Conference on Modelling and Optimization of DPS with Applications to Engineering, Warsaw (Poland), July 17-21, 1995 (Chair)
17th IMP General Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Prague, July 10-14, 1995
SIAM Conference on Control and Systems Theory Saint Louis, Missouri, April 27-29, 1995
First International Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace, Daytona Beach, May 9-11, 1996
18th IFIP General Conference on Modelling and Optimization, July 1997, Detroit (co-chair)
Conference on Control of PDE's organized by CIRM, Luminy, France, June 16-21 1997
IFIP Conference on Optimal Control: Theory and Algorithms, Gainesville, FL, March 1-4, 1997
International Symposium on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, MMAR Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 24-29, 1997
19th IFIP General Conference on Modelling and Optimization, July 1999, Cambridge, England
International Conference honoring 90 birthday of L. S. Pontryagin, Moscow, Russia, September 1-6, 1998
IFIP Conference on Distributed Parameter and Stochastic Systems, Hauangzhou, China, June 19-22, 1998
IFIP Conference on Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations April 20-24, 1998, Chemnitz, Germany
International Symposium on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, MMAR Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 21-27, 1998
An International Conference on Distributed Systems: Optimization and Economic-Environmental Applications, (co-chair), sponsored by IIASA and IFT, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 23-26 May, 2000
Advances in Control of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems, Texas A&M University, October 22-24, 1999
Optimal Control of Dynamical Systems, Oberwolfach, June 4-10, 2000
Third International Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace, Daytona Beach, May 10-12, 2000
SIAM Control Conference, San Diego, July 2001
29th IFIP General Conference on Optimization, July 2001, Trier, Germany
3rd ISAAC Congress, Berlin, Germany, August 20-25, 2001
IMA-NSF Workshop on "Geometric Methods in Inverse and Control problems", Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, July 2001.
IFIP Conference on Control Problems in PDE's, Constanza, Romania, September, 2002.
30th IFIP General Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Sophie Antipolis, France, July 2003. Chair of IPC.
International Conference on Distributed parameter Systems and Ecology, IAASA, Laxenburg, Austria, May 21-25, 2003. Co-chair of IPC.
9th IEEE-MMAR International Conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 30-Sept 1, 2003
ECCOMAS 2004, 4-th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Science s., Jyvakyla, Finland, July 24-28, 2004 (C0-chair of IPC Committee on Optimization and Control)
WCNAA 2004- World Congress on Nonlinear Analysis. Orlando. June 30-July 5, 2004
10th IEEE-MMAR International Conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 24-30, 2004
22nd IFIP General Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Torino, Italy, July 2005 (Chair of IPC)
International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Los Angeles, CA, June 16-19, 2004
18th IFIP World Computer Congress, Toulouse, France, 22-27 August, 2004
Conference on Free and Moving Boundaries, Houston, TX, December 2-4, 2004
The 7th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, CA 2005, Cancun, Mexico, May 18-20, 2005, Member of IPC
Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Guelph, Canada, July 29-31, 2005
11th IEEE-MMAR International Conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 27-Sept. 2, 2005
International Congress on Applications of Mathematics (ICAM), Santiago de Chile, Chile, March 13-17, 2006; member of the IPC Committee for Control System Theory
ICNPAA 2006, Mathematical Problems in Aerospace Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, June 21-23, 2006
The First International conference on Complex Systems and Applications, Hukhot, Mongolia, June 15-18, 2006
23rd IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Krakow, Poland, July 2007, Chair of IPC Committee
12th IEEE-MMAR International Conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 27-September 2, 2006. Member of the IPC.
8th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, CA 2007, Montreal, Canada, May 30-June 1, 2007. Member of the IPC.
13th IEEE-MMAR International Conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 27-September 2, 2007. Member of the IPC.
5th International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Edinburg, TX, December 16-18, 2006. Member of the IPC.
23rd IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Krakow, Poland, July 23--27, 2007, Chair of the IPC. URL: http://ifip2007.agh.edu.pl.
IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications), Quebec, Canada, May 26--28, 2008. Member of the IPC.
24th IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Buenos-Aires, Argentina. July 2009. Chair of the IPC.
7th AIMS (American Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, May 18--21, 2008. Member of the International Program Committee (IPC).
International Symposium on System Theory, Morocco, May 25-28, 2009. Member of the IPC.

Organizer of Special Sessions/Minisymposia/Conferences
A. Conferences

IFIP Conference on Control Problems for Systems Described by Partial Differential Equations and Applications, University of Florida, Gainesville, February 3-6, 1986
IFIP-IAASA Conference on Modeling and Inverse Problems, Laxenburg, Austria, July 14-29, 1989
IFIP Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Rabat, Morocco, December 15-17, 1993
SIAM Symposium on Industrial Problems in Control, San Diego, CA, July 22-23, 1994
IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization with Applications to Engineering, Warsaw (Poland), July 17-21, 1995
18th IFIP General Conference on Modelling and Optimization, Detroit, MI, July 22-25, 1997
AMS - Summer Research Conference on Optimization and PDE's, June 16-20, 1996
IMA Workshop Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems and Control, Summer 2001
21st IFIP Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, Sophia Antipolis, France, July 21-23, 2003
22nd IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Torino, Italy, July 2005
AMS Summer Research Conference on Control of Nonlinear PDE Systems, Snowbird, Utah, July 3-8, 2005
23rd IFIP Conference opn Modeling and Optimization, Krakow, Poland, July 23-27, 2007. Chair of the IPC.
24th IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2009.

B. Minisymposia, Special Sessions

26th CDC Conference, Special Session on Control of PDE's, Los Angeles, CA, 1987
24th CDC Conference, Special Session on Control of PDE's, Fort Lauderdale, FL, December 1985
12th HU Conference, Special Session on Control of PDE's, Budapest, September 1985
23rd CDC Conference, Special Session on Control of PDE's, Las Vegas, NV, December 1984
21st CDC Conference, Special Session on Control of PDE's, Orlando, FL, December 1982
13th IFIP Conference on System Modellings and Optimization - Special Session on Distributed Parameter's System, Tokyo, August-September 1987
14th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization. Special Session: New Trends in Control Theory, Leipzig, Germany, July 3-7, 1989
15th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization - Session: Numerical Techniques for Control Problems, Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 2-6, 1991
13th IMACS World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematics - Special Session: Computational Techniques in Distributed Systems, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, July 22-26, 1991
ICIAM 91 - International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics - Minisymposium "Boundary Control Theory for Partial Differential Equations," Washington, D.C., July 8-12, 1991
15th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization - Special Sessions: Optimization and Stability Methods for Distributed Parameter Systems, and Numerical Techniques in DPS, Zurich, Sept. 2-6, 1991
13th IMACS World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematics - Special Session "Control of Distributed Parameter Systems," Dublin, Ireland, July 22-26, 1991
The Ulam Mathematics Conference - Special Session "Control Theory," Palm Beach, April 3-5, 1991
IFIP Workshop on Control of PDE's, Trento (Italy), Jan. 4-9, 1993
IFIP Workshop on Control of PDE's, Laredo (Spain), Sept. 5-9, 1994
Minisymposium on Nonlinear Problems in Control Theory, at the SIAM Conference on Control and Systems Theory, St. Louis, Missouri, April 27-29, 1995
ICIAM-95 - The Third International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Hamburg, Germany, July 3-7, 1995. Minisymposium Control Problems for PDE's
SIAM Minisymposium on Control of Large Scale Systems, Charlotte, Oct 23-26, 1995
IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Warsaw, Poland, July 17-21, 1995 Session on Control of PDE's
18 IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Detroit, July 21-24, 1997. Minisymposium on Nonlinear Control Problems in PDE's
Special Session on Control of Interactive Structures, 37 IEEE CDC Conference, Tampa, Dec 16-18, 1998
Special Session on Control of PDE's 19th IFIP Conference, Cambridge, England, July 16-19, 2000
Minisymposium on Optimization of Interactive PDEs, Conference on Dynamical Systems, Atlanta, May 18-21, 2000
Minisymposium on Asymptotic Behaviour of Nonlinear Shell Dynamics, IMACS Congress, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2000
Special Session on "Nonlinear Wave Propagation," ISAACS Congress, Berlin, August 21-25, 2001
Minisymposium on "Control Theory for Interactive PDE's," SIAM Conference, San Diego, July 11-14, 2001
Minisymposium on "Control of PDE's" within 21st IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Sophia Antipolis, France, July 21-25, 2003
Minisymposium on "Control of Nonlinear PDE Systems" (co-organized with G. Avalos and F. Bucci), within 22nd IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Torino, Italy, July 17-21, 2005
Special session on "Asymptotic Stability and Long Time Behavior of Nonlinear PDE Dynamics," 5th ISACS Congress, Catania, Italy, July 24-29, 2005
Minisymposium (5 invited sessions) on "New Developments in Nonlinear PDEs," organized with G. Todorova at the AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Poitiers, France, June 25-28, 2006
Special session on "Nonlinear Evolutionary PDE Systems and their control," organized with G. Avalos at the AMS Conference, Johnson City, TN, Oct. 15-16, 2005
Minisymposium on Control of Partial Differential Equations, organized with G. Avalos and J. Cagnol, 23rd IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Krakow, Poland, July 23-27, 2007
Joint AMS-PTM Meeting, Special Session on Control and Optimization of Nonlinear PDE Systems, organized with J. Sokolowski, Warsaw, Poland, July 27-August 3, 2007
Special Session, AIMS 10th Conference on Dynamical Systems, Arlington, Texas, May 18-21, 2008
WCNA Congress of Nonlinear Analysis, Orlando, FL, July 1--5, 2008. Organizer (jointly with L. Tebou) of Special Session on Control and Nonlinear PDEs
Conference in Honor of L. Pontryagin, Moscow, Russia, June 7-20, 2008. Organizer of Special Session on Control Theory and Differential Games (with M. Zelikov)

Invited Presentations (1985-present)
Plenary Speaker at the Conference

12th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Budapest, Hungary, September 2-6, 1985
Southeastern Atlantic Conference on Differential Equations, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, October 25-26, 1985
IFIP Conference on Boundary Control and Boundary Variations, Nice, France, June 10-13, 1986
NSF-AFOSR Conference on Control of Systems Governed by PDE's, Montreal, CA, October 5-9, 1986
International Conference on Control Problems for PDE's, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 6-9, 1987
Modelling, Information Processing and Control, MIPAC Conference; University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 15-18, 1988
Perspectives in Control Theory, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sielpia, September 19-24, 1988
1990 SIAM Annual Meeting, Chicago, July 15-20, 1990
10th INRIA Intern. Conference on Analysis and Optimization, Sophia Antipolis, France June 9-12,1992
2nd International SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Univ. of Delaware, June 7-10, 1993
The 8th Annual Three Rivers Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, April 1-2, 1995
IFIP Conference on Control of PDE's, Laredo (Spain), Sept. 4-9, 1994
34th CDC-IEEE Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 13-16, 1995
MTNS Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 24-28, 1996
2nd Congress on Nonlinear Analysis, Athens, Greece, June, 10-17, 1996
Principal Lecturer, Barrett Lectures, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 1997
International Conference on Applied Analysis, Samos, Greece, July 4-9, 1996
ISAACS Congress 97, Delaware, June 3-7, 1997
Conference on Stochastic and Deterministic Control, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, July 3-7, 1997
98-MMAR Conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 24-27, 1998
First International Conference on Semigroups of Operators-in honor of R. Phillips, December 14-16, 1998, New Port Beach, CA
Control of Systems Governed by PDE's, Univ. of Nancy, France, March 8-12, 1999
Principal Lecturer at the NSF-CMIBS Conference "Mathematical Control Theory of Coupled PDE's", Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, August 4-10, 1999
Control of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems, Conference in honor of 60th birthday of D. Russell, Texas A&M University, October 22-24, 1999
German-Polish Conference on Optimization - Methods and Applications, 14-18, September, 1999, Zagan, Poland
AMS Conference on Differential Geometric Methods of PDE's, Boulder, Colorado, June 27-July 1, 1999
Optimal Control of Dynamical Systems, June 4-10, 2000, Oberwolfach, Germany, June 4-10, 2000
International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Atlanta, GA, May 18-21, 2000
International Conference on Applied Mathematics (IEEE Distinguished Lecturer), Zakopane, Sept. 19-26, 2000, Poland.
Second Meeting on Inverse Problems, Gragano, Italy, April 2001.
International Conference on Dynamics and Continuous Systems, London, Canada, Juky 27-30, 2001
SIAM Control Conference, July 9-13, San Diego, 2001
Autumn School on Semigroups and Evolutions, CNRS, Trento, Italy, Nov 2001.
French-German Conference on Optimization, Cottbus, Germany, September 9-13, 2002
Symposium on Partial Differential Equations: Igaucu, Brazil, December 17-19, 2003
Barett Lectures, University of Tennessee, April 28-30, 2005
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Guelph, Canada, July 29-31, 2005
Conference on Differential and Difference Equations with Applications, Melbourne, FL, August 1-5, 2005
ICNPAA 2006 - Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Budapest, Hungary, June 21-23, 2006
The International Conference of Hybrid Systems and Applications, Lafayette, LA, May 22-26, 2006
Advances in Control Theory of Partial Differential Equations, University of Maryland, October 28-29, 2006
Congress on Applied Mathematics, Lima, Peru, January 9-12, 2007
WCNA 2008 Fifth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, July 2-9, 2008
6th International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Baltimore, May 22--25, 2008
50 Years of Control Theory, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bedlewo, September 15-22, 2008
International Conference on Differential Equations and Topology, dedicated to 100th birthday of L. S. Pontryagin, Moscow State Univ., June 18-25, 2008

Invited Conference Speaker

2nd International Conference on Control Theory for Distributed Parameter Systems and Applications, Vorau, Austria, July 9-14, 1984
International Conference on Theory and Applications of Differential Equations, Edinburg, TX, May 20-23, 1985
International Conference on Differential Equations in Banach Spaces, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, July 1-5, 1985
24th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (SIAM-invited paper), Fort Lauderdale, December 11-13, 1985
NSF-AFSOR-NASA Workshop on "Control Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations with Applications to Large Flexible Structures" (invited panel leader), Tampa, FL, March 4-8, 1985
"Operator Methods of Optimal Control Problems" (Special Session), Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, New Orleans, LA, January 7-11, 1986
Conference on Optimal Control with Partial Differential Equations, Oberwolfach, May 18-24, 1986
Conference on Control and Identification of Distributed Systems, Vorau, Austria, July 6-12, 1986
AMS Conference on Semilinear Parabolic and Hyperbolic Equations, Charlotte, NC, October 17-18, 1986
5 "International Conference on Evolution Equations," Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, February 1987
Conference in Honor of A. V. Balakrishnan's Sixtieth Birthday, Washington, DC, June 16-19, 1987
Trends in Semigroups and Applications, International Conference, Trieste, Italy, September 28-October 3, 1987
Combined Midwest-Southeast Differential Equations Conference, Vanderbilt University, October 23-24, 1987
26th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, December 9-11, 1987
COMCON Workshop on Stabilization of Flexible Structures, Montpellier, France, December 11-15, 1987
8th International Conference Analysis and Optimization of Systems, INRIA, Antibes, June 8-10, 1988
4th International Conference on Control at Distributed Parameter Systems, Vorau, Austria, organized by the University of Graz, July 10- 16, 1988
IFIP Conference on Control Boundaries and Stabilization, Clermont-Fernoud, France, June 20-23, 1988
AMS Special Session on Control Theory, University of Kansas, Lawrence, October 28-29, 1988
The 27th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, December 7-9, 1988
Mathematical Science Institute Conference on Applications of Microlocal Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Nov. 28-Dec. 3, 1988
SIAM Conference on Control in the 90's, San Francisco, May 17-18, 1989
General IFIP Conference on Modelling and Optimization, Leipzig (E. Germany), July 3-7, 1989
IIASA-IFIP Conference on Modelling and Inverse Problems, Laxenburg, Austria, July 24-29, 1989
International Conference on Differential Equations, Colorado Springs, June 7-10, 1989
28th IEEE-CDC Conference, Tampa, December 13-16, 1989
Workshop on Control Theory, Pisa, July 16-18, 1989
AMS Annual Meeting, Louisville, January 17-18, 1990
NASA-UCLA Workshop on Computational Techniques in Identification and Control of Flexible Flight Structures, Lake Arrowhead, CA, November 2-4, 1985
2nd Symposium on Optimal Design and Control of Structures, Jablonne, Poland, June 4-9 1990
International Conference on Optimal Control of partial Differential Equations, (organized by Univ. of Augsburg) - Irsee, Germany April 9-12, 1990
4th NASA Workshop on Computational Control of Flexible Aerospace Systems, Williamsburg, July 11-13, 1990
NSF Conference on Mathematical Control Theory - I.I.T. Bombay, December 10-15, 1990
The 29th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 5-7, 1990
NSF-CBMS Regional Conference on Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Systems, Orlando, FL March 11-15, 1991
AMS Special Session "Operator Methods in Control Theory" Tampa, FL, March 22-23, 1991
SIAM Conference ICIAM 91, Washington, DC, July 8-12, 1991
Meeting on "Differential Equations in Banach Spaces" Bologna, Italy, July 1-5, 1991
International Workshop - Conference on Evolution Equations, Control Theory and Biomathematics, Hans-sur-Lesse, Belgium, Oct. 20-26, 1991
NSF Workshop on Stochastic Theory and Adaptive Control, Lawrence, KS, Sept. 26-28, 1991
IMA Workshop on Control, Univ. of Minnesota, Nov. 9-13, 1992
Conference of Boundary Control and Boundary Variations, Nice, France, June 3-5, 1992
First World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis, Tampa, FL, Aug. 19-26, 1992
SIAM Conference on Control, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sept. 17-18, 1992
AMS Annual 1992 Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Jan. 8-11, 1992
AMS Annual 1993 Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 13-16, 1993
IFIP Workshop, Univ. of Trento, Italy, Jan. 4-9, 1993
AMS Annual Meeting, Special Session on Control and Stability, San Antonio, TX, Jan. 13-16, 1993
Conference on Optimal Control of Diff. Eq., Ohio Univ., Athens, Ohio, March 25-27, 1993
Conference on Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter System, Univ. of Graz, (Vorau) Austria, July 18-24, 1993
First International Conf. on Dynamic Systems and Applications, Atlanta, Georgia, May 26-29, 1993
Minisymposium on Control of PDE's, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, Oct. 21, 1993
AMS Meeting/Special Session, College Station, Texas, Oct. 22-23, 1993
32nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 15-17, 1993
SIAM Annual Meetings, San Diego, California, 1994
AFOSR Workshop on Optimal Design, ICIAM Blacksburg, Virginia, April 8-9, 1994
IAC Workshop on Control and Applications, Rome, Italy, July 11-13, 1994
ICCAM 94th International Conference on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, July 25-30, 1994
IFIP Conference on Control of Partial Differential Equations, Loredo, Spain, September 4-9, 1994
4th International Conference on Evolution Equations, Pisa, Italy, September 26-30, 1994
AMS Meetings, Orlando, Florida, March 17-18, 1995
ICIAM 95, Hamburg, Germany, July 3-7, 1995
17-th IFIP Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Prague, July 10-14, 1995
IFIP Conference, Warsaw, Poland, July 17-21, 1995
SIAM Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, October 23-26, 1995
SIAM Annual Meeting, Kansas City, KS, June 21-25, 1996
Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Aerospace, Daytona Beach, May 9-11, 1996
SPIE's 1996 Symposium, San Diego, CA, Feb. 25-29, 1996
MMAR-96 Conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, Sept. 10-13, 1996
AMS Conf. on Mathematical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Chattanooga, Oct. 11-12, 1996
SPIE's Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, Feb. 4-7, 1997
ISSAC's Congress- Invited Session on Mathematical Methods in Wave Propagation, June 6, 1997
IFIP Conference on Optimal Control, Gainesville, FL, Feb 27-March 1, 1997
CIRM Conference on Control of PDE's, Luminy (Marseille), France, June 16-21, 1997
18 IFIP General Conference on Modeling and Optimization, Detroit, MI, July 21-24, 1997
International Conference on Dynamics and Control of PDE's, Guanajuato, Mexico, Nov. 29-31, 1997
Semester on Control Theory of PDE's, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France, March 9-13, 1998
Workshop on Thermoelasticity, Nat. Lab. Scientific Comp. Rio de Janerio, Brazil, March 16-20, 1998
International Conference on Control of PDE's, Chemnitz University, Germany, April 20-25, 1998
4-th SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications, Jacksonville, FL, May 7-9, 1998
Conference on Control of Distributed Parameter and Stochastic Systems, Hangzhou, China, June 19-22, 1998
Conference on Semigroups of Operators, Newport Beach, CA, Dec. 14-18, 1998
Invited SIAM lecture at 37 IEEE CDC Conference, Tampa, Dec. 16-18, 1998
AMS Meeting, Invited Session on "Control and Dynamics of PDE's," Las Vegas, NV, April 10-11, 1999
ICIAM 99, Invited Session "Control of Shells", Edinburgh, Scotland, July 5-9, 1999
19-th IFIP Conference, Invited Session: "Control of DPS Systems," Cambridge, England, July 12-16, 1999
AMS Southeastern Meeting, Invited Session on "Optimal Control and Computational Optimization" Charlotte, NC, Oct. 15-17, 1999
38-th IEEE CDC Conference, Invited Session on "Control of Distributed Systems," Phoenix, Arizona, December 7-10, 1999
AMS Annual Meeting, Invited Session on Differential Geometric Methods in Control Theory," Washington, DC, January 19-21, 2000
Workshop on "PDE's- Thermo-Visco Elasticity," University of Constanz, Germany, July 31-August 4, 2000
IMACS World Congress, Invited Session on "Wellposedness and qualitative behaviour of solutions to nonlinear shell theory," Lausanne, Switzerland, August 21-25, 2000
Third World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis, Catania, Sicily, July 19-26, 2000
PDE Conference, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Oct 15-16, 2000
AMS Conference, Invited Session on Calculus of Variations and Nonsmooth Analysis. Lawrence, Kansas, March 30-April 1, 2001.
. Workshop on Wellposedness in Optimization and Nonsmooth Analysis. Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, Sept 10-15, 2001
ISAACS Congress, Invited Session on Geometric Methods and PDE's, Berlin, August 20-25, 2001
AMS Conference: Invited Session on Wave Propagation, Chattanooga, TN, October 5-7, 2001
01 AMS Annual Conference, Invited Session on Nonlinear PDE's, San Diego, CA, January 7-11, 2002
Conference on "Evolution Equations and Semigroups," INDAM Palazzone in Cortona, Italy, April 8-12, 2002
First Joint International Meeting AMS-Unione Matematica Italiana, Pisa, Italy, June 12-16, 2002
Conference on Differential Equations and Nonlinear Dynamics. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 7-12, 2002
SIAM Annual Conference, Invited Session on Shape Optimization, Philadelphia, July 8-12, 2002
Conference on PDE's and Optimization, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Constanza, Romania, September 10-14, 2002
Mittag-Leffler Institute, Semester on "Mathematical Control Theory," January 2003
Conference on Semigroups and Evolutions, Gargnanao, Italy, March 31-April 4, 2003
3rd International Conference on Engineering, Applications and Computational Algorithms, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, May 15-18, 2003
IIASA Workshop on Control of Distributed Systems and Environmental Applications, Laxenburg, Austria, May 26-18, 2003
Conference in honor of J. Lagnese, Washington,DC, May 29-June 03, 2003
21st IFIP Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, Sophia Antipolis, France, July 21-25, 2003. Invited session
9th IEEE International MMAR Conference, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, Invited session "Optimization of Infinite Dimensional Systems," August 25-28, 2003
5th Congress of Romanian Mathematics, Pitesti, Romania, June 22-28, 2003
Workshop on Boundary Control and Optimization, Pisa, February 26-28, 2004
AIMS Conferene on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Los Angeles, CA, June 15-19, 2004
Workshop on Optimal Control of ODEs, conference dedicated to Czeslaw Olech. Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland, September 1-5, 2004
IFIP Conference on Free and Moving Boundaries, Houston, December 2-4, 2004
AMS Conference, Southeastern Section, Bowling Green, KY, March 2005 (invited session)
AMS Conference, Eastern Section, Newark, DE, April 2-3, 2005 (invited session)
Oberwolfach Conference on Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of PDEs, Oberwolfach, April 17-23, 2005
Workshop on Inverse Problems, Charlotte, NC May 27-30, 2005
5th ISAACS Congress, Catania, Italy, July 25-30, 2005
22nd IFIP Conference on Modeling Optimization, Torino, Italy, July 17-21, 2005
AMS Summer Research Conference on "Control Methods in PDE Dynamical Systems," Snowbird, Utah, July 3-7, 2006; Workshop on Boundary Value Problems, computation and Control, September 19-23, 2005, Luminy, France
Conference on Evolution Equations, Applications to Physics and Engineering, October 24-28, 2005, Luminy, France
MMAR 2005 - IEEE Conference, August 29-September 1, 2005, Miedzyzdroje, Poland
AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Poitiers, France, June 25-28, 2006; special session "Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems"
AMS Conference, special session "Harmonic Analysis and PDEs," Miami, FL, April 1-2, 2006
Fluids and Waves, Recent Trends in Applied Analysis, Memphis, TN, May 11-13, 2006
SIAM Conference on Analysis of PDEs, invited session "Structure Interactions with Fluid Gas Flows and Acoustical Waves, July 10-12, 2005
IEEE-MMAR 2006, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 28-31, 2006
Evolution Equations 2006, in memory of G. Lumer, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium, August 28-September 1, 2006
International Conference on Differential Equations, dedicated to Y. Lopatinsky, Lviv, Ukraine, September 12-17, 2006
Workshop on PDEs, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 12-15, 2006
Advances in Control of PDEs, in honor of the 70th birthday of T. Seidman, University of Maryland, October 28-29, 2006
Workshop on Direct, Inverse, and Control Problems of PDEs, (DICOP), June 25-28, 2007, Rome, Italy
International Conference on Theoretical and Numerical Fluid Mechanical, in honor of P. Galdi, August 11-17, 2007, Vancouver, Canada
Conference on Functional Analysis and Optimization, Center for the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Bedlewo (Poland), September 17-21, 2007
International Conference on Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems in Mathematical Physics, dedicated to M. M. Lavrentev, August 20-25, 2007, Novosybrisk, Russia
Special Session of the SIAM-PDE Conference, Arizona, December, 2007
AMS-NZM First Joint Meeting, December 12-15, 2007, Wellington, New Zealand. 50-minute keynote lecture in the session, New Trends in Spectral Analysis and PDE
Workshop on PDEs, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 1-7, 2007
The 7th AIMS Conference, Arlington, TX, May 18-21, 2008
AMS Central Sectional Meeting, October 17-19, 2008 at the Special Session on Optimization and Variational Analysis
AMS Central Sectional Meeting, October 17-19, 2008 at the Special Session on Optimization and Variational Analysis, Kalamazoo, Michigan
MFO - Oberwolfach, Germany, Workshop on Optimal Control of Coupled PDEs, Oberwolfach, March 2-8, 2008
Differential Equations and Topology, dedicated to L. S. Pontryagin, Moscow State Univ., June 17-22, 2008
Direct, Inverse and Control Problems in PDEs, Cortona, Italy, September 22-27, 2008
47-IEEE-CDC Conference, Cancun, Mexico, December 9-11, 2008, invited session on Distributed Parameter Systems