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Dr Omar FODA
Position: Associate Professor/Reader
Email: O.Foda@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Room: 193
Ext. Number: 49690
Webpage: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~foda/
Research Group:- Mathematical Physics & Statistical Mechanics
Interests: - Algebraic Combinatorics
- Integrable systems
- Mathematical physics
- Mathematics of string theory
- Quantum field theory
- Statistical Mechanics
Recent Publications:
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  • On free fermions and plane partitions(2008) more
  • Two elliptic height models with factorized domain wall partition functions(2008) more
  • On the trigonometric Felderhof model with domain wall boundary conditions(2007) more
  • Andrews–Gordon type identities from combinations of Virasoro characters(2007) more
  • Factorized domain wall partition functions in trigonometric vertex models(2007) more
For details of my research interests, please refer to
my web page

Current Postgraduate Supervision:

Alexander CARADOC "On vertex models with domain wall boundary conditions"
Matthew ZUPARIC "Integrable systems and gauge theories"
Michael WHEELER "Riemann-Hilbert methods in integrable models"
Stephen MCATEER "Aspects of integrable models"
Michael COUCH "Integrable Systems in the Context of Hamiltonian Mechanics"

Current Honours Students:

Gus SCHRADER

Recent Honours Students:

Fiona DRUITT "Hirota’s Direct Method and Sato’s Formalism in Soliton Theory"
Michael WHEELER "An Introduction To Riemann-Hilbert Problems And Their Applications"
James PLUNKETT "An introduction to the algebraic Bethe ansatz"
Matthew ZUPARIC "The finite gap solution for the N particle periodic Toda lattice"
Amy SULLIVAN "Inverse scattering solution of KdV equation"
Michael COUCH "Noether's Theorem and Beyond: Symmetries in Mechanical Systems"
Laura HATTAM "Finding Solutions to KP"

Recent Grant History:

Year(s) Source Type Title
2002 - 2004 ARC Discovery Algebraic structures in Mathematical Physics
2000 - 2002 ARC ARC Large Grant Recursive combinatorial transforms in solvable lattice models

Responsibilities:

Honours Coordinator

Committees:

Honours and Masters Committee
Math. Sciences Library Users Committee
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