chapter 1 Shape Sensitivity Analysis in Hyperbolic Problems with Nonsmooth Domains -- chapter 2 Unbounded Growth of Total Variations of Snapshots of the 1D Linear Wave Equation Due to the Chaotic Behavior of Iterates of Composite Nonlinear Boundary Reflection Relations -- chapter 3 Velocity method and Courant metric topologies in shape analysis of partial differential equations -- chapter 4 Nonlinear Periodic Oscillations in Suspension Bridges / chapter 5 Canonical Dual Control for Nonconvex Distributed-Parameter Systems: Theory and Method -- chapter 6 Carleman estimate for a parabolic equation in a Sobolev space of negative order and its applications -- chapter 7 Bilinear control for global controllability of the semilinear parabolic equations with superlinear terms -- chapter 8 A Nonoverlapping Domain Decomposition for Optimal Boundary Control of the Dynamic Maxwell System -- chapter 9 Boundary Stabilizibility of a Nonlinear Structural Acoustic Model Including Thermoelastic Effects -- chapter 10 On Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Optimal Control Problems for Dynamic Networks of Euler-Bernoulli- and Rayleigh-beams -- chapter 11 Local Characterizations of Saddle Points and Their Morse Indices / chapter 12 Static Buckling in a Supported Nonlinear Elastic Beam / chapter 13 Optimal control of a nonlinearly viscoelastic rod / chapter 14 Mathematical Modeling and Analysis for Robotic Control / chapter 15 Optimal Control and Synthesis of Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Systems / chapter 16 Forced Oscillation of the Korteweg-De Vries-Burgers Equation and Its Stability.