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Abstract
Professor David L. Russell just celebrated his 70th
birthday in 2009. His numerous important and fundamental
contributions to the control theory of partial differential
equations have won him recognitions as a true pioneer and giant in
this field. And his pleasant personality and ready helpfulness have
won our hearts as his admirers, students, and friends.
Prof. Russell's lifetime love and interests are control
theory and partial differential equations. We have asked Goong Chen,
a former PhD student of Prof. Russell, to write a survey of his
career and mathematical work. Moreover, as a way to pay our tribute
to him, it is only proper here that we put together a collection of
papers by researchers who work on these and closely related subjects
of Prof. Russell's. Indeed, the topics collected are extensive,
including the theory and applications of analysis, computation,
control, optimization, etc., for various systems arising from
conservation laws and quasilinear hyperbolic systems, fluids,
mathematical finance, neural networks, reaction-diffusion,
structural dynamics, stochastic PDEs, thermoelasticity,
viscoelasticity, etc. They are covered in great depth by the
authors. There are a total of 35 papers finally accepted for
publication after going through strict manuscript reviews and
revision. Due to the large number of papers on hand, we divide them
into Groups I (20 papers) and II (15 papers). Papers in Group I are
published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B
(DCDS-B) Volume 14, No. 4 (2010), while those in Group II are
published in Journal of Systems Science and Complexity (JSSC) Volume
23, No. 3 (2010). This division is up to the preference of the
authors. We thank all the authors and reviewers for their critical
contributions and valuable assistance that make the publication of
these two journal issues possible.
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