This workshop, part of the STRIDE project, brought together a significant number of researchers with valuable contributions across the diverse fields addressed, as well as many postgraduate students and researchers in Mathematics and other areas where mathematical methods are essential for research. Members of the International Program Committee also participated as speakers at the event. The workshop aimed not only to present and discuss new lines of research in the dynamic fields of Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, which drive the development of richer and more innovative Mathematics, but also to share the high-quality standards set by this scientific community. The presentations covered a wide and diverse set of issues within the workshop topics, encompassing the three main groups where Professor Aram Arutyunov made significant contributions: Optimal Control – Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle, State and Mixed Constraints, Degeneracy Phenomena, Controllability Conditions, Generalized Controls, Impulsive Control Problems, Second-Order Optimality Conditions; Abnormal Problems – Second-Order Optimality Conditions for Abnormal Minimizers, Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems at Abnormal Points; Nonlinear Analysis – Quadratic Mappings, Coincidence Points of Mappings, Covering Properties. Thus, the STRIDE workshop offered a unique platform for discussing and promoting new ideas and values of excellence in mathematical research, inspiring significant advances in the fields addressed and strengthening the scientific community at the frontier of knowledge in control and optimization.
