Dr Phillip Isaac

Senior Lecturer

Mathematics
Faculty of Science
psi@maths.uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 53267

Overview

Dr Phillip Isaac is a mathematician interested in algebraic structures, particularly those related to quantum integrable systems.

Phillip received his PhD in mathematics in May 2001 from UQ. The title of his thesis was "Quasi Hopf superalgebras and their dual structures".

He worked as a JAVA programmer/cryptographer for about 9 months before undertaking a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan. His project was entitled "Symmetries in quantum spin chains".

After his return to Australia in September 2003, he began casual employment at UQ, working as a first year tutor and developing course materials.

His current research activities involve developing the constructive representation theory of Lie (super)algebras, quantum groups and related structures, and its utility in application, particularly to quantum integrable systems.

Publications

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Supervision

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Publications

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Isaac, Phillip S., Werry, Jason L. and Gould, Mark D. (2015). Characteristic identities for Lie (super)algebras. 30th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (Group30), Ghent Belgium, 14-18 July, 2014. Bristol, United Kingdom: Institute of Physics Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/597/1/012045

  • Birrell, A., Isaac, P. S. and Links, J. (2013). Exactly solvable BCS-BEC crossover Hamiltonians. The XXIX International Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics, Tianjin, China, 20-26 August 2012. Hackensack, NJ, United States: World Scientific. doi: 10.1142/9789814518550_0018

  • Worsley, Susan, Bracken, Anthony, Hibberd, Katrina and Isaac, Phillip (2009). Introducing a group research project into a second-level mathematics course. UniServe Science Conference 2009, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 30 September - 2 October 2009. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UniServe Science.

  • Wagner, L., Links, J. and Isaac, P. (2005). Ribbon structure in symmetric pre-monoidal categories. XXV International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in, Cocoyoc, Mexico, 2-6 August, 2004. Bristol, U.K.: Institute of Physics Publishing.

  • Gould, MD and Isaac, PS (1998). Quasi-Lie algebras and a method for determining non-degeneracy of the quasi-Lie product. 12th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (Group 22), Hobart Australia, Jul 13-17, 1998. CAMBRIDGE: INTERNATIONAL PRESS INC BOSTON.

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

Completed Supervision