These papers are from a December 2000 conference held in honor of an early initiator of the theory of stochastic partial differential equations. Topics include areas where professor Bensoussan has offered leading contributions, such as functional and numerical analysis, stochastic partial differential equations, nonlinear filtering and identification, dynamic programming and stochastic control, mathematical finance, and operations management. Some subjects examined are the duality between estimation and control, evolution equations for convex gradient systems, stochastic particle methods for linear tangent filtering equations, and sensitivity shaping in feedback control and analytic interpolation theory. Includes a list of books and articles by Bensoussan. Menaldi is affiliated with Wayne State University. This work lacks a subject index.

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