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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: Selected Publications \| Publications RSS Feed 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:

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"

Subject(s) Currently Teaching:

620-293	Engineering Mathematics (Semester 2, 2009)
620-629	Integrable Models (Semester 2, 2009)

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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