Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Publications
Professional Associations
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Dr Azhar Iqbal

Telephone	+61 8 8303 8153
Position	ARC Posdoctoral Research Fellow
Email	iqbal@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
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Biography/ Background

1970, born in Pakistan
1991, undergraduate degree in Mathematics & Physics, University of the Punjab
1995, graduated in Physics, University of Sheffield
1995-2002, staff member, Pakistan Institute of Lasers & Optics (PILO), Government of Pakistan
1999-2002, PhD candidate (on study leave from PILO), Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University
2002-2006, PhD candidate, Department of Mathematics, University of Hull
2006-present, Assistant Professor (presently on leave), Centre for Advanced Mathematics & Physics (CAMP), National University of Sciences & Technology
2006-2007, Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Visiting Associate Professor (supported by JSPS), Kochi University of Technology
2007-present, Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (supported by the ARC), University of Adelaide

Qualifications

PhD (Applied Mathematics), University of Hull, 2006
PhD (Electronics), Quaid-i-Azam University, 2006
Postgraduate Certificate in Research Training, University of Hull, 2006
BSc Honours (Physics), University of Sheffield, 1995
BSc (Physics with Pure & Applied Mathematics), University of the Punjab, 1991

Teaching Interests

Courses taught

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (graduate course) at CAMP in Fall 2006 semester
Electromagetic Field Theory (undergraduate course) at IIEC, Riphah International University in Fall 2000 and in Spring 2001 semesters
Physics (undergraduate course) at APCOMS, National University of Modern Languages in Fall 2000 semester

Research Interests

Quantum games
Foundations of quantum mechanics
Geometric algebra
Quantum information and computation
Game theory
Memristor
Physics and technology of lasers

Publications

Preprints of most of my recent publications are available at the ArXiv link

Submitted papers

O. Kavehei, A. Iqbal, Y. Kim, K. Eshraghian, S. Al-Sarawi, and D. Abbott, The fourth element: characteristics, modelling, and electromagnetic theory of the memristor (2009)
A. Iqbal and D. Abbott, Constructing quantum games from a system of Bell's inequalities (2009)

Book chapter

A. Iqbal and T. Cheon, Evolutionary stability in quantum games, chapter 13 in "Quantum Aspects of Life", edited by D. Abbott, P. Davies and A. K. Pati, with Foreward by Sir Roger Penrose, Imperial College Press (2008): http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/p581.html

Published papers

A. Iqbal and D. Abbott, Non-factorizable joint probabilities and evolutionarily stable strategies in the quantum prisoner's dilemma game, Physics Letters A 373, 2537 (2009)
J. M. Chappell, A. Iqbal, M. A. Lohe, and L. von Smekal, An analysis of the quantum penny flip game using geometric algebra, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 78, 054801 (2009)
A. Iqbal and D. Abbott, Quantum matching pennies game, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 78, 014803 (2009)
A. Iqbal, T. Cheon, and D. Abbott, Probabilistic analysis of three-player symmetric quantum games played using the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm setting, Physics Letters A 372, 6564 (2008)
T. Cheon and A. Iqbal, Bayesian Nash equilibria and Bell inequalities, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 77, 024801 (2008)
A. Iqbal and T. Cheon, Constructing quantum games from non-factorizable joint probabilities, Physical Review E 76, 061122 (2007)
A. Iqbal, Playing games with EPR-type experiments, Journal of Physics A: Math. & General 38, 9551 (2005)
A. Iqbal, Quantum correlations and Nash equilibria of a bi-matrix game, Journal of Physics A: Math. and General 37, L353 (2004)
A. Iqbal and S. Weigert, Quantum correlation games, Journal of Physics A: Math. & General 37, 5873 (2004)
A. Iqbal and A.H. Toor, Stability of mixed Nash equilibria in symmetric quantum game, Communications in Theoretical Physics 42, 335 (2004)
A. Iqbal, Quantum games with a multi-slit electron diffraction set-up, Nuovo Cimento B 118, 463 (2003)
A. Iqbal and A.H. Toor, Quantum repeated games, Physics Letters A 300, 537 (2002)
A. Iqbal and A.H. Toor, Backwards-induction outcome in a quantum game, Physical Review A 65, 052328 (2002)
A. Iqbal and A.H. Toor, Quantum mechanics gives stability to a Nash equilibrium, Physical Review A 65, 022306 (2002)
A. Iqbal and A.H. Toor, Quantum cooperative games, Physics Letters A 293, 103 (2002)
A. Iqbal and A.H. Toor, Darwinism in quantum systems?, Physics Letters A 294, 261 (2002)
A. Iqbal and A.H. Toor, Entanglement and dynamic stability of Nash equilibria in a symmetric quantum game, Physics Letters A 286, 245 (2001)
A. Iqbal and A.H. Toor, Evolutionarily stable strategies in quantum games, Physics Letters A 280, 249 (2001)

Conference presentations

A. Iqbal and D. Abbott, A unifying framework for classical and quantum games, talk in Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematical Methods, Models and Applications, Centre for Advanced Studies in Mathematics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan (2009)
A. Iqbal and D. Abbott, Quantum matching pennies game, poster presentation in 18th biennial Australian Institute of Physics Congress, University of Adelaide (2008): http://www.aipc2008.com/
A. Iqbal and T. Cheon, Constructing multi-player quantum games from non-factorizable joint probabilities, talk in SPIE Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology 2007, Australian National University, Canberra. Appeared in Proceedings of SPIE 6802, 68020A (2007)
A. Iqbal and T. Cheon, Constructing quantum games from non-factorizable probabilities, poster presentation in Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science, Shiran Kaikan, Kyoto University, Japan (2007): http://qc.naist.jp/aqis07/
A. Iqbal, M.M. Gualini, M.M. Ashraf, S. Shahdin, M.A. Atta, Mathematical modelling of slow-flow diffusion-cooled CO2 laser, talk in National Workshop on Mathematical Models: Their Development and Use, Islamabad, Pakistan (1998)
A. Iqbal, Anisotropy and coercive fields in thin magnetic films, poster presentation in Second National Seminar on Engineering Materials and Metallurgy (SEMM), Karachi, Pakistan (1998)

Professional Associations

Junior Member, Sir Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Member, Australian Research Council Complex Open Systems Research Network
Member, Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network

Files

Curriculum Vitae - CV.pdf [136.6K] (application/pdf)

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