Staff profile

Qualifications

• B.Sc.(Hons), Ph.D. (Melb.).

Teaching areas

• MAT1CLA (Linear Algebra).

• MAT2VCA (Vector Calculus).

Supervision

• Honours supervision in small-world problems (Lisa Hackett, 2002) and statistical mechanics (Lynne McArthur (Scott), 1996).

Professional involvement

• Member Australian Mathematical Society.

• National Advisory Committee for Statphys 24 (to be held in Australia, 2010).

Research interests

• Statistical mechanics and conformal field theory.

• The small-world phenomenon.

Recent publications and presentations

• Public lecture (ICE-EM/La Trobe) "What's Happening in Mathematics?" (April 2008).

• Keynote presentation: Degrees of separation - quantifying the small world phenomenon, in Mathematics - The Way Forward (Proceedings of the 43rd Mathematics Association of Victoria Conference) 288-299 (2006).

• Stations, trains and small-world networks, K.A. Seaton and L.M. Hackett, Physica A, 339, 635-644 (2004).

• A universal amplitude ratio for the q < 4 Potts model from a solvable lattice model, K.A. Seaton, J. Stat. Phys. 107, 1255-1265 (2002).