Large-Scale Optimization with Applications: Part II: Optimal Design and Control

A three-week workshop on Large-Scale Optimization was held at the IMA from July 10 to July 28, 1995 as part of its summer program. These workshops brought together some of the world's leading experts in the areas of optimization, inverse problems, optimal design, optimal control and molecular structures. The content of these volumes represent a majority of the presentations at the three workshops. The presentations, and the subsequent articles published here are intended to be useful and accessible to both the mathematical programmers and those working in the applications. Perhaps somewhat optimistically, the hope is that the workshops and the proceedings will also initiate some long-term research projects and impart to new researchers the excitement, vitality and importance of this kind of cooperation to the applications and to applied mathematics.