Education

• Ph.D. (2001), University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, MB Canada
• B.Sc. (1993), University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Awards

• 2001-2003: Joseph Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• 1999-2000: University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship

    My CV

Research Interests

I am interested in a variety of problems in physics and biology that are complex -- that is they are nonlinear and have a large number of degrees of freedom. In recent years, experiments, most notably genome sequencing, revealed an unprecedented level of complexity in biological systems and posed new challenges for modeling. Technological development and rapid growth of the population have resulted in creation of incredibly complex engineering systems and infrastructure such as internet or power grids. This has raised new control issues to be addressed.

To further this research it is essential to develop models for complex systems that accurately capture their key features and that at the same time can be handled with computational tools that are available at this time. Abstraction in terms of dynamical systems allows for diverse problems to be studied using the same mathematical formalism.

My goal is to study regulatory mechanisms in biological systems and develop theoretical models, which will help understand basic principles upon which these systems operate and eventually predict novel behavior. I further want to use experience from the study of biological systems and apply it to the design and control of technological applications. My research also involves improving existing and developing new mathematical methods for studying nonlinear and complex systems.

More details are provided in my research statement.

Fall 2005: Intro Physics 2211 MWRF 9:05-9:55 AM

Summer 2005: Intro to Modern Physics 2213 MWF 10:40-11:50 AM

Spring 2005: Intro Physics 2211 MTuWTh 8:05-8:55 AM

• Slaven Peles, Brian Munsky and Mustafa Khammash, "Reduction and solution of the chemical master equation using time-scale separation and Finite State Projection", Journal of Chemical Physics 125 (20), 204104 (2006). Click here for a preprint (in PDF).

• Slaven Peles, Jeffrey L. Rogers and Kurt Wiesenfeld, "Robust Synchronization in fiber laser arrays", Physical Review E 73, 026212 (2006). Click here for a preprint (in PDF).

• Slaven Peles, Jeffrey L. Rogers and Kurt Wiesenfeld, "Synchronization in fiber laser arrays: theoretical study", Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5971, 59710R (2005). Click here for a preprint (in PDF).

• Jeffrey L. Rogers, Slaven Peles, and Kurt Wiesenfeld, "Dynamics of high gain fiber laser arrays", IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 41 (6), p. 767-773 (2005). Click here for a preprint (in PDF).

• Q. Wu, P. Sekhavat, N. Sepehri and S. Peles, "On Design of Continuous Lyapunov's Feedback Control", Journal of the Franklin Institute 342 (6), pp. 702-723 (2005).

• K. Josic and S. Peles, "Synchronization in networks of general, weakly nonlinear oscillators", Journal of Physics A 39 p. 11801-11817 (2004). Click here for a preprint (in PDF).

• Slaven Peles and Kurt Wiesenfeld, "Synchronization law for a Van der Pol array", Phys. Rev. E 68, No. 2, 026220 (2003). Click here for a preprint (in PDF).

• Randy Kobes, Junxian Liu and Slaven Peles, "Analysis of a Parametrically Driven Pendulum", Physical Review E 63, 036219, 2001. Click here for a preprint.

• Q. Wu, P. Sekhavat, S. Peles, R. F. Abo-Shanab and N. Sepehri, "An Improved Design Procedure of Lyapunov's Feedback Control", Proceedings of 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), p. 486-491 (2001).

• 3-6 January 2007: Dynamics Days, Boston

Last update: December 5, 2006.