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A/PROF ALEKS OWCZAREK



Contact Details

Organization: Mathematics and Statistics
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER
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Homepage: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/Personnel/profile.php?PC_id=55
Work: 8344 6545
Fax: 8344 4599
Room: 192
Building: Richard Berry Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Mathematical Statistical Mechanics Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of London Research
United Kingdom University of Oxford Research
Canada University of Toronto Research
Canada University of British Columbia Research
Canada York University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Hons) The University of Queensland 01-Dec-1985
Bachelor of Science The University of Queensland 01-Dec-1984
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-1989

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Mathematical Society Member of the Australian Mathematical Society 01-Feb-1992

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
ARC centre of excellence for mathematical and statistical modelling of complex systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Centres of Excellence 01/01/2003
Searching for solvability in Statistical Mechanics and beyond using advanced Enumerative Combinatorics Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

Additional Grant and Contract Information

Awarded Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian Research Council, (1991). Awarded Australian Research Fellowship, Australian Research Council, (1994). Awarded Senior Research Fellowship, Australian Research Council, (1998) 2004 - 2008 ARC Network Complex Open Systems Network (COSNet) 2002 - 2006 ARC Discovery Advanced Computational and Analytic Studies in Lattice Statistical Mechanics and Applications 2005 The University of Melbourne MRGS Development and application of novel stochastic enumeration techniques 2001 The University of Melbourne MRGS Computer Simulations of lattice polymers

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Pulling self-interacting polymers in two dimensions
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Physical Review E
    Volume: 79
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 031912 (9pp)
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Exact solutions of some lattice polymer models
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Mathematical Chemistry
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-57
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  • Finite-size scaling functions for directed polymers confined between attracting walls


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 035002:1-16
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  • Scaling of the atmosphere of self-avoiding walks


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 37
    Page numbers: 375004 (6pp)
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  • Self-avoiding walks in slits and slabs with interactive walls
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Mathematical Chemistry
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 113-128
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A Lattice Model for Parallel and Orthogonal Beta-Sheets using Hydrogen-Like Bonding
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Physical Review E
    Volume: 76
    Page numbers: 051904
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  • Exact enumeration and Monte Carlo results for self-avoiding walks in a slab
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 7509-7521
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  • Exact solution of semi-flexible and super-flexible interacting partially directed walks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
    Volume: 2007
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: P11010.
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  • Mean unknotting times of random knots and embeddings
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
    Volume: doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2007/05/P05004
    Issue: 05
    Page numbers: pp. 05004 (2007).
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  • On the location of the surface-attached globule phase in collapsing polymers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and Theoretical
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 13257-13267
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  • The competition of hydrogen-like and isotropic interactions on polymer collapse
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
    Volume: PO9016
    Page numbers: 1-15
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • A note on the corrections-to-scaling for the number of nearest neighbour contacts in self-avoiding walks
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Physics - Conference Series
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 221-224
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  • Collapse transition of self-avoiding trails on the square lattice
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Physica A - Statistical and Theoretical Physics
    Volume: 373
    Page numbers: 433-438
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  • Lattice Paths and the Constant Term
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Physics - Conference Series
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 47-58
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  • On the number of anisospiral walks a challenge in numerical analysis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Physics - Conference Series
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 225-230
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  • Self-Avoiding Random Walk with Multiple Site Weightings and Restrictions
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Physical Review Letters
    Volume: 96
    Issue: 240603
    Page numbers: 1-4
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A directed walk model of a long chain polymer in a slit with attractive walls
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 4309-4325
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  • Layering transitions for adsorbing polymers in poor solvents
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Europhysics Letters
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 726-732
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  • Pulling absorbing and collapsing polymers from a surface
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1-12
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  • Self-avoiding walks in a slab with attractive walls
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: L823-L828
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Stretching of a chain polymer adsorbed at a surface
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
    Volume: 1
    Issue: P10004
    Page numbers: 1-12
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Polymer collapse in high dimensions: Monte Carlo simulation of lattice models
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 16th Annual Workshop: Recent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics
    Conference Publication: Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVI, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop
    Volume: 95
    Page numbers: 147-151
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Monte carlo investigation of lattice models for polymer collapse in five dimensions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics C
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 621-633
    Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
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  • Monte carlo studies of three-dimensional two-step restricted self-avoiding walks
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 9635-9646
    Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing(Bristol)
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  • Quantum and classical localization and the Manhattan lattice
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 10251-10267
    Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing(Bristol)
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  • Scaling near the θ point for isolated polymers in solution
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Physical Review E
    Volume: 67
    Issue: 032801
    Page numbers: 1-3
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Anisotropic step, mutual contact and area weighted festoons and parallelogram polyominoes on the triangular lattice
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 3213-3230
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  • Anisotropic step, surface contact, and area weighted directed walks on the triangular lattice
    Year: 2002
    Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics B
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 1269-1299
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  • Identification and characterization of polymorphisms at the HSA ∝1-acid glycoprotein (ORM) gene locus in caucasians
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Genetics and Molecular Biology
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 13-19
    Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Genetica
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  • Pseudo-first-order transition in interacting self-avoiding walks and trails
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Computer Physics Communications
    Volume: 147
    Page numbers: 629-632
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Addendum to 'on three-dimensional self-avoiding walk symmetry classes'
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 6055-6060
    Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing(Bristol)
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  • Four-dimensional polymer collapse II: interacting self avoiding trails
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Physica A - Statistical and Theoretical Physics
    Volume: 297
    Page numbers: 275-290
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Polygonal polyominoes on the square lattice
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 3721-3733
    Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing(Bristol)
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  • Scaling analysis for the adsorption transition in a watermelon network of n directed non-intersecting walks
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Statistical Physics
    Volume: 102
    Page numbers: 997-1017
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  • Scaling of self-avoiding walks in high dimensions
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 5773-5780
    Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing(Bristol)
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