The symposium discusses and explores the current and future development of some aspects of the theory of nonlinear control systems, adaptive control and filtering, robust control and H (infinity) optimization, stochastic systems and white noise analysis amongst others.

A conditional observer and controller logic for finite machines and its associated automated reasoning methodology, P.E. Caines; adaptive stabilization, H. Chen et al; positivity preserving mappings and Riccati type equations, S. Chen et al; stability of ideal sliding dynamics, D. Cheng et al; Raccati and soliton equations, M. Hazewinkel; controller design based on the system decomposition, S. Ishijima; on the nonlinear dynamics of Kalman filtering, A. Lindquist; structure methods in the control of linear time-varying systems, C.H. Moog et al; stochastic partial differential equations with functionals of white noise, B.K. Oksendal; a nonlinear Feynman-Kac formula and applications, S. Peng; introduction to white noise analysis, J.K. Potthoff; large deviation for nonhomogeneous diffusions, Z. Qian; H {infinity} type optimal control problems, algebraic Riccati equations and differential games, J. Yong et al; invertibility and observability of controlled systems, Y. Zheng et al; and others.