This volume contains a collection of articles dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Albert Shiryaev. The majority of contributions are written by his former students, co-authors, colleagues and admirers strongly influenced by Albert’s scientific tastes as well as by his charisma. We believe that the papers of this Festschrift reflect modern trends in stochastic calculus and mathematical finance and open new perspectives of further development in these fascinating fields which attract new and new researchers. Almost all papers of the volume were presented by the authors at The Second Bachelier Colloquium on Stochastic Calculus and Probability, Metabief, France, January 9-15, 2005. Ten contributions deal with stochastic control and its.
