Celebrating the work of renowned mathematician Jerome A. Goldstein, this reference compiles original research on the theory and application of evolution equations to stochastics, physics, engineering, biology, and finance.

Preface, Contributors, Biography, The Hille-Yoshida Cantata, 1. Matrix-Valued Generalizations of the Theorems of Borg and Hochstadt, 2. Local and Global Well-Posedness Results for Generalized BBM-type Equations, 3. Variable Coefficient KdV Equations and Waves in Elastic Tubes, 4. Infinitely Many Solutions for a Superlinear Neumann Problem in Tileable Regions, 5. On Applications of Maximal Regularity to Inverse Problems for Integrodifferential Equations of Parabolic Type, 6. A Semilinear Integrodifferential Inverse Problem, 7. Gearhart-Priiss Theorem in Stability for Wave Equations. A Survey, 8. A Note on Generalized Maximum Principles for Elliptic and Parabolic PDE, 9. Finite Dimensional Convex Gradient Systems Perturbed by Noise, 10. Differentiability of the Solution Semigroup for Delay Differential Equations, 11. Second Order Differential Operators on C[0,1] with Wentzell-Robin Boundary Conditions, 12. A New Approach to the Regularity of Solutions for Parabolic Equations, 13. The Regulator Problem for a Singular Control System, 14. Criteria for R-Boundedness of Operator Families, 15. One Dimensional Hyperbolic Systems and Hille-Yosida Operators, 16. On the Wave Equation Subjected to Coulomb Friction, 17. Asymptotics of Perturbations to the Wave Equation, 18. A Class of Ordinary Differential Operators with Jump Boundary Conditions, 19. An Alternate Proof of Kato's Inequality, 20. On a Continuous Coagulation and Fragmentation Equation with a Singular Fragmentation Kernel, 21. Almost Periodicity of Inhomogeneous Parabolic Evolution Equations, 22. Linear Delay Equations in the Lp-context, 23. Integrated Form of Continuous Newton's Method, 24. Effects of a Variable Step-Size in Some Abstract Product Formulas, 25. Evolution Operators in Stochastic Processes and Inference, 26. Competition between Diffusion and Inhomogeneous Reaction, 27. Global Bifurcations of Concave Semipositone Problems, 28. An Obstruction to Prescribing Positive Scalar Curvature on Complete Manifolds with Ricci = 0