Mathematical methods in systems, optimization, and control festschrift in honor of J. William Helton / editör ler, Harry Dym, Mauricio C. de Oliveira, Mihai Putinar.

Includes bibliographical references.

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