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Tel-Aviv University
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News

June 2010: Slides of my plenary talk at STAB'10

The slides of my plenary talk at STAB'10 are now available here .

June 2010: Research grant from the I-SAEF

George Weiss and me received a three year research grant from the I-SAEF.

July 2010: Special session on Switched and Hybrid Systems

I am organizing a special session on Switched and Hybrid Systems for the IEEE 26th CONVENTION OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS IN ISRAEL. This will take place in Eilat, Israel, Nov. 17-20, 2010. Eilat is Israel's southernmost city located at the northern tip of the Red Sea. Eilat's arid desert climate is moderated by proximity to a warm sea. Average day temperature in Eilat during the month of November is 27 Centigrade (81 Fahrenheit). The city's beaches, coral reefs, fine hotels, nightlife and desert landscapes make it a popular destination for domestic and international tourism.
List of accepted presentations .

December 2010: Slides of the talk: A maximum principle for single-input Boolean control networks

The slides are now available here .

July 2011: Research grant from the ISF

I received a four year research grant from the ISF to study the optimal control of Boolean networks.

Jan 2012: Slides of my talk: Stability Analysis of Positive Linear Switched Systems: A Variational Approach

The slides of my talk at a research workshop in the Technion are now available here .

Jan 2012: Slides of my talk: Stability Analysis of Linear Switched Systems: An Optimal Control Approach

The slides of my talk at the Doc-Course on Stability and Bifurcations in Piecewise Linear Systems are now available (Part 1) (Part 2) here .

March 2012: Research grant from the Israeli Ministry of Trade

George Weiss and me received a research grant from the Israeli Ministry of Trade (Kamin program)

March 2012:

I received the Dean's prize for excellence in teaching

January 2011: Some recently submitted papers:

Analysis of discrete-time linear switched systems: a variational approach (with Tal Monovich); published in SICON, 2011
A second-order maximum principle for discrete-time bilinear control systems with applications to discrete-time linear switched systems (with Tal Monovich); published in Automatica, 2011
Explicit construction of a Barabanov norm for a class of positive planar discrete-time linear switched systems (with Ron Teichner); published in Automatica, 2012
Knowledge extraction from a class of support vector machines: a fuzzy logic approach (with Shahaf Duenyas)
A Pontryagin maximum principle for multi-input Boolean control networks (with Dima Laschov)
Mathematical analysis of a flying capacitor converter: a sampled-data modeling approach (with Alex Ruderman and Boris Reznikov); to appear in IJCTA, 2013
A maximum principle for the stability analysis of positive bilinear control systems with applications to positive linear switched systems (with Lior Fainshil); published in SICON, 2012
Minimum-time control of Boolean networks (with Dima Laschov)
Controllability of Boolean control networks via the Perron-Frobenius theory (with Dima Laschov); published in Automatica , 2012
Stability analysis of the ribosome flow model (with Tamir Tuller); published in IEEE TCBB, 2012
On the steady-state distribution in the homogeneous ribosome flow model (with Tamir Tuller); published in IEEE TCBB, 2012
Observability of Boolean networks: A graph-theoretic approach (with Dima Laschov and Guy Even)
Symbolic dynamics of Boolean control networks (with Gal Hochma, Ettore Fornasini and Maria E. Valcher)
Ribosome flow model with positive feedback (with Tamir Tuller)
Analysis of the translation rate in the infinite-dimensional homogeneous ribosome flow model (with Tamir Tuller)
Entrainment to periodic initiation and translation rates in the ribosome flow model (with Eduardo D. Sontag and Tamir Tuller)