during the last fifty years, gopinath kallianpur has made extensive and significant contributions to diverse areas of probability and statistics, including stochastic finance, fisher consistent estimation, non-linear prediction and filtering problems, zero-one laws for gaussian processes and reproducing kernel hilbert space theory, and stochastic differential equations in infinite dimensions. to honor kallianpurs pioneering work and scholarly achievements, a number of leading experts have written research articles highlighting progress and new directions of research in these and related areas. this commemorative volume, dedicated to kallianpur on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, will pay tribute to his multi-faceted achievements and to the deep insight and inspiration he has so graciously offered his students and colleagues throughout his career. contributors to the volume: s. aida, n. asai, k. b. athreya, r. n. bhattacharya, a. budhiraja, p. s. chakraborty, p. del moral, r. elliott, l. gawarecki, d. goswami, y. hu, j. jacod, g. w. johnson, l. johnson, t. koski, n. v. krylov, i. kubo, h.-h. kuo, t. g. kurtz, h. j. kushner, v. mandrekar, b. margolius, r. mikulevicius, i. mitoma, h. nagai, y. ogura, k. r. parthasarathy, v. perez-abreu, e. platen, b. v. rao, b. rozovskii, i. shigekawa, k. b. sinha, p. sundar, m. tomisaki, m. tsuchiya, c. tudor, w. a. woycynski, j. xiong