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Slaven Peleš
Joseph Ford Fellow

Center for Nonlinear Science
School of Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430

Office: Howey W509
Phone: (404) 385 2508
Fax: (404) 385 2506
Home Phone: (404) 817 9350

email: my email

So long as there are different nationalities there will be patriotism. This feeling has to be eradicated from our hearts before permanent peace can be established. Its place must be filled by love of nature and scientific ideal. Science and discovery are the great forces which will lead to that consummation.

Nikola Tesla, New York, December 20, 1914

Biographical Information

Education

Ph.D. (2001), University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, MB Canada

B.Sc. (1993), University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Awards

2001: Joseph Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology.

1999-2000: University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship

Research Interests

My research interests lie in nonlinear dynamics and mathematical modeling. My current research projects include investigation of synchronization phenomena in fiber laser arrays, developing mathematical methods for study of synchrony in weakly nonlinear networks and periodic orbit theory for 2D maps.

Teaching

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

Selected Publications

Slaven Peles, Jeffrey L. Rogers and Kurt Wiesenfeld, "Robust Synchronization in fiber laser arrays", submitted to Physical Review E (2005). 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).

Travel Plans

22-26 May 2005: SIAM Conference of Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT
12-14 September 2005: Photonics North, Toronto, ON

Links

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Last update: September 21, 2005.