Semigroups of Operators - Theory and Applications

Preface.- Part I, 85th Birthday Lecture: J. Kisynski, Topologies in the Set of Rapidly Decreasing Distributions.- Part II, Theory: Y. A. Butko, The method of Chernoff approximation.- A. Hussein and Delio Mugnolo, Laplacians with point interactions - expected and unexpected spectral properties.- S. Kosowicz, Remarks on characterization of generators of bounded C0-semigroups.- S. Trostorff , Semigroups associated with differential-algebraic equations.- S. A. Zagrebina and N. N. Solovyova,  Positive degenerate holomorphic groups of the operators and their applications.- Part III, Applications: B. Andreianov and M. D. Rosini, Microscopic selection of solutions to scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux in the context of vehicular traffic.- A. Bartlomiejczyk and M. Wrzosek, Newton's method for the  McKendrick-von  Foerster equation.- M. Bongarti, S. Charoenphon and I. Lasiecka, Singular thermal relaxation limit for the Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation arising in  propagation of acoustic waves.- R. Brodnicka and H. Gacki, Applications of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein maximum principle in the theory of Boltzmann equations.- E. V. Bychkov, Propagators of the Sobolev Equations.- G. Ruiz Goldstein,  J. A. Goldstein, D. Guidetti and S. Romanelli,  The Fourth Order Wentzell Heat Equation.- P. Kalita, G. Lukaszewicz, and J. Siemianowski, Nonlinear semigrous and their perturbations in hydrodynamics. Three examples.- A. Karpowicz and H. Leszczynski, Method of lines for a kinetic equation of swarm formation.- A. V. Keller and M. A. Sagadeeva, Degenerate Matrix Groups and Degenerate Matrix Flows in Solving the Optimal Control Problem for Dynamic Balance Models of the Economy.- O. G. Kitaeva, D. E. Shafranov and G. A. Sviridyuk, Degenerate holomorphic semigroups of operators in spaces of K-"noises" on Riemannian manifolds.- A. C.S. Ng, Optimal energy decay in a one-dimensional