Current Trends in Operator Theory and its Applications, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004 Operator Theory: Advances and Applications Series, Vol. 149

IWOTA 2002 and Recent Achievements and New Directions in Operator Theory and Applications.- Inverse Scattering Transform, KdV, and Solitons 1.- The Schur Algorithm for Generalized Schur Functions IV: Unitary Realizations.- Linear Systems with Schrödinger Operators and Their Transfer Functions.- Strongly Regular J-Inner Matrix Functions and Related Problems.- Boundary Interpolation for Contractive-valued Functions on Circular Domains in Cn.- On Realizations of Rational Matrix Functions of Several Variables III.- Operator-valued Extension of the Theorem of Nelson and Szegö.- On Super-wavelets.- Fast Algorithms for Toeplitz Least Squares Problems.- Admissibility of Control and Observation Operators for Semigroups: A Survey.- Closed Subspaces which are Attractors for Representations of the Cuntz Algebras.- On the Bessmertnyi Class of Homogeneous Positive Holomorphic Functions of Several Variables.- Rational Solutions of the Schlesinger System and Isoprincipal Deformations of Rational Matrix Functions I.- A Generalization of the tan 20 Theorem.- Partly Free Algebras From Directed Graphs.- Uniform Approximation by Solutions of Elliptic Equations and Seminormality in Higher Dimensions.- Direct and Inverse Scattering for Skewselfadjoint Hamiltonian Systems.- Factorization of Block Triangular Matrix Functions in Wiener Algebras on Ordered Abelian Groups.- Semidefinite Invariant Subspaces: Degenerate Inner Products.- On The Dual Spectral Set Conjecture.- II Stochastic Controllability of Linear Interest Rate Models.- On the Generalized Joint Eigenvector Expansion for Commuting Normal Operators.- Dynamics and Stabilization of an Elastic Tape Moving Axially Between Two Sets of Rollers.- Weyl-Titchmarsh Matrix Functions and Spectrum of Non-selfadjoint Dirac Type Equation.- OperatorTheory and the Corona Problem on the Bidisk.- Factorization of Polynomials With Estimates of Norms.- The “Action” Variable is not an Invariant for the Uniqueness in the Inverse Scattering Problem.

Most recent achievements and future directions of research in the area of operator theory and its diverse applications Proceedings of the IWOTA 2002 workshop at Virginia Tech, reflecting lectures, talks, and discussions