People at UWO Applied Mathematics

Allan B. MacIsaac

Allan B. MacIsaac U. W. O. Department of Applied Mathematics Middlesex College, Rm. 270 London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 tel: (519) 661-2111 ext. 88772 fax: (519) 661-3523 email: allanb@uwo.ca web: http://blue.beowulf.uwo.ca/~allanb/

Research Interests

• Nanomagnetism
• Ultra-thin magnetic films
• Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
• Statistical Mechanics
• Computer Simulation
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Cellular Automata
  

Representative Publications

• J.P. Whitehead, A.B. MacIsaac and K. De'Bell, "Canted stripe phasenear the spin reorientation transition in ultrathin magnetic films", Phys. Rev. B. 77 174415 (2008)
• A.B. MacIsaac and Mark Whitmore, "HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN CANADA: THE EARLY CHAPTERS", Invited contribution to Physics in Canada, April/June (2008)
• Tingxi Tan and A.B. MacIsaac, "Monte Carlo Simulations of a model ultra-thin magnetic bilayer", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19 (2007) 456223
• Baolai Ge, Allan B. MacIsaac and Henning Rasmussen, "A Threaded Parallel Code for Pricing Discrete Asian Options on SMP Systems", Proceeds. of HPCS 2006: 20th InternationalSymposium on High-Performance Computing in an Advanced CollaborativeEnvironment, St. John's, NFLD, (2006)
• K. De’Bell, A.B. MacIsaac and J.P. Whitehead, "Dipolar effects inmagnetic thin films and quasi-two-dimensional systems" Reviews of Modern Physics, vol.72, no. 1, January 2000, 225-257.