Using a series of four interrelated lectures, this half-day workshop will demonstrate the basic theoretical underpinnings of DPS via a series of engineering examples and subsequently will discuss the practical aspects of controller design for DPS. The interplay between the sensor technology limitations will be presented in the context of mobile sensor guidance in distributed estimation of DPS and an overview of data assimilation in the estimator design for DPS will be given. At the conclusion of the half-day workshop, the participants are expected to have an understanding of the modelling and system theoretic properties (well posedness, controllability, observability, stability) of representative examples of infinite dimensional systems including the diffusion equation, the wave and beam equations, delay differential equations and platoon-type systems. Additionally, the participants are expected to have an understanding for the practical aspects of integrated actuator-sensor-controller design, an appreciation of the sensor technology limitations and their effects on the distributed estimation of DPS and to have a familiarity of the data assimilation in the use of estimation of DPS. The proposed half-day workshop is divided into four lectures addressing various aspects for the control and estimation of DPS. The starting point is the revised book An Introduction to Infinite-Dimensional Linear Systems Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York (1995), by Ruth Curtain and Hans Zwart. The point of departure will be an introduction to Lyapunov stability and colocated systems with boundary control. This introductory talk will be given by Ruth Curtain. Subsequently, Kirsten Morris will extensively discuss the modeling of the actuators and sensors in control design and how this affects system behaviour. Physical intuition does not always lead to the best choice of locations. The incorporation of the sensor technology limitations into the design of distributed state estimation with mobile sensor networks will be presented and discussed by Michael A. Demetriou. A performance-based guidance and spatial repositioning of mobile sensors that considers sensor technology limitations, the computational model used and physical properties of the process will be discussed. The ultimate goal for simulation and control synthesis, is the application of the distributed-parameter systems theory in practice. Thus the final lesson, given by Sergiy Zhuk, will focus on experimental studies which have been done by the speaker in collaboration with T. Tchrakian, A. Akhriev, S. Thirupati, S. McKenna (IBM Research-Ireland), S. Lu and H. Hamann (IBM T.J.Watson Research Center) and S. Moore (IBM Research-Melbourne).