Curriculum Vitae
NAME
FATMA SALIM ALI AL KHAROUSI
ADDRESS
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University.
P.O.Box 36, Al Khod, PC123, Sultanate of Oman.
Phone No.
(00968)24141430
Email Add.
fatma9@squ.edu.om
Languages:
Arabic(mother tong), English(fluent), Kswahili.
Current Position
Full time faculty in Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University.
Education:
• Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, awarded on Jun 1999, Sultan Qaboos
University, Oman.
• Masters Degree in Pure Mathematics, awarded on Aug 2002, Michigan
State University, USA.
• PhD in Coding Theory, awarded on May 2011, Queen Mary, University of
London, UK.
More courses and Conferences attended/ research visits:
• A course in Mathematica in SQU 2001.
• Post Graduate Combinatorial Conference 2005, Oxford, (contributed with
a talk)
• British Combinatorial conference 2005, Durham
• Post Graduate Combinatorial Conference 2006, Wells, (contributed with
a talk)
• A short course Course in Cohomology Theory in University of Southampton, 9 − 13 July 2007.
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• Post Graduate Combinatorial Conference 2007, St Andrews (contributed
with a talk)
• British Combinatorial Conference 2009, St Andrews
• The 3rd workshop on Algebra and its Applications in SQU on 22nd Dec
2010. (contributed with a talk)
• SQU-Cambridge workshop in SQU, Muscat, Oman, 29-31/10/2011. (contributed with a talk; Analyzing Quaternary Codes using Binary Codes).
• GUTech- International workshop in Mathematics, Muscat, Oman, 18th22nd/02/2012. (contributed with a talk; Duality in classes of Quaternary
codes).
• Improving Mathematics though the use of technology workshop, Muscat,
SQU, 13/03/2012.
• British Combinatorial Conference 30th June to 5th of July 2013, Royal
Holloway, UK. (contributed with a talk; Combinatorial Results for Certain
Semigroups of Partial Isometries of a Finite Chain.)
• Combinatorics, Algebra and More, A Conference in Celebration of Peter
Cameron, 8-10 July 2013, Queen Mary, University of London.
• Research visit to Uppsala University in the period August24th to September4th, 2015 and gave a seminar on ”Studies in Semigroups of Contraction
Mappings of a Finite Chain”.
• Contributed in TRC conference in October 26th, 2015 with a poster.
• Chaired the organizing committee of the first Oman mathematics day held
on November 22nd.
Computer Skills: I can confidently use Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point,
Latex and Internet. I have learned some Computer programming using languages like FORTRAN, PASCAL, C+ and GAP during my Bachelors, Masters
and PhD studies.
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Work Experience: (positions held)
Positions Held
Dates
Department/ Institution
Assistant Lecturer
(1999-2000)
Mathematics SQU, Oman
Lecturer
(2002-2011)
Mathematics SQU, Oman
Assistant Prof.
(2011-Date)
Mathematics SQU, Oman
Teaching Experience: (courses taught)
• MATH2107: Calculus I (a number of times).
• MATH2108: Calculus II (a number of times).
• MATH2202: Linear Algebra I (a number of times).
• MATH3330: Discrete Mathematics for Engineering (coordinated a number
of times).
• MATH3360: Discrete Mathematics (coordinated a number of times).
• MATH6204: Combinatorics (coordinated).
Thesis/Project supervision and examining:
• Supervised a final year project with Dr. Abduladheem Al Soodany in the
academic year (Sep 2010-May 2011).
• Examined a final year project in May, 2014 for a project titled “Divisibility
Rules for integers”.
• Supervised an MSc thesis titled “Combinatorial Results in the Full and
Partial Symmetric Semigroups and their Sets of Idempotents”, June 2015.
• In the committee of MSc thesis: “Projective, Flat and Multiplication Modules”, Oct 2015.
• In the committee of the MSc thesis: “Invariant Ring of Irreducible Representations of Coxeter Group of type An ”, in progress.
• Supervising MSc thesis started in spring 2016.
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• was an external examiner for MSc thesis titled:“ The Effectiveness of
Learning Based on Projects in Teaching Geometry on the academic achievement and the development of geometrical thinking for students in grade
seven”, Oct 2015.
Experience in Courses Setting/Revision:
• Prepared learning outcomes for Graph Theory Course (MSc level).
• Helped in revising material distribution and suggesting a book for Calculus(I,II,III) series of courses in Spring 2011.
• Set up the course Discrete Mathematics for EC& E offered for engineering students in 2013 and contributed in the revision of the course which
involved joining Discrete Math with Complex variable courses for engineering in 2015.
• Helped in revising material of Foundation of Mathematics and Discrete
Mathematics for math major students.
• Edited the moodle pages for Calculus I, Linear Algebra I and Discrete
Mathematics for Engineering and Discrete Mathematics for Mathematics.
Also prepared the moodle page for Combinatorics.
• Coordinated Discrete math courses for a number of semesters (for engineering and Mathematics students).
Additional Information (Administration and Advising): I have also
contributed the Mathematics Department in SQU and the community in the
following:
• Advising a number of pre-major students for a number of years.
• Chairing a committee to form new degrees or create some diversity in
degrees of math.
• Serving as a member in the Omani Mathematics Committee and contributed in organizing the First Oman Mathematics Day held in November
22nd, 2015.
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• Contributed in College Board committee, Student committee, Teaching
committee and Timetabling Committee, Appointment Committee, Curriculum Committee and Social committee.
• Worked as an Alumni officer for awhile updating records of graduates of
the department. I have organized the alumni gathering held in November
19th, 2014.
Research Interest: Pure Mathematics specially Coding Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics and Semigroup Theory.
In my PhD thesis, I studied classes of quaternary codes defined by a pair of
binary codes. Binary codes are used in practice. Using a mapping called the
Gray map, we can map quaternary codes to binary codes. So studying classes
of quaternary codes might lead us to better binary codes. Currently I working
on generalizations to the results obtained about quaternary codes.
Funded Research Projects:
• An internal Grant (2013-2015) on ”On Semigroups of Partial Isometries
of a Finite Chain”.
• TRC research project approved summer 2013 on ”Studies in Semigroups
of Contraction Mappings of a Finite Chain”.
Publications:
1. Al-Kharousi, F., A., Kehinde, R. and Umar, A., “On the Semigroup of
Partial Isometries of a Finite Chain, appeared in Communication of Algebra, November, 2015.
2. AL-Kharousi, F., Kehinde, R. and A. Umar, “Combinatorial Results for
Certain Semigroups of Partial Isometries of a Finite Chain”, appeared in
the Australasian Journal of Mathematics, Vol 58 (2014)
3. My PhD thesis on “Describing Quaternary Codes Using Binary Codes” is
published by LAP LAMBERT as a book.
4. Al-Kharousi, F., Garba, G.U., Ibrahim, M.J., Imam,A.T. and Umar, A,
“On the Semigroup of finite order- preserving partial injective contraction
mappings”, submitted to Semigroup Forum.
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5. AL-Kharousi, F., Kehinde, R. and A. Umar,“Combinatorial results for certain Semigroups of order-decreasing Partial Isometries of a finite chain”,
to be submitted soon.
6. Fatma Al Kharousi, Alan J. Cain, Victor Maltcev, Abdullahi Umar, “A
countable family of finitely presented infinite congruence-free monoids, accepted in Acta Math. Szeged.
7. Wafa Al Nadabi, Fatma Al Kharousi, Abdullahi Umar, “Combinatorial
results for idempotents in partial and full transformation semigroups, submitted.
8. Wafa Al Nadabi, Fatma Al Kharousi, Abdullahi Umar,“Some combinatorial results for partial and full transformation semigroups” submitted.
9. Fatma Al Kharousi, Nadia Al Dhamri, George Kelin, Abdulahi Umar, “On
the Semigroup of Finite Order- preserving Partial Injective Contraction
Mappings”, to be submitted in the near future.
10. 2 planed papers on “Nilpotent of Partial Isometries of a Finite Chain”
and “A generalization of Rank results in Partial Isometries of a Finite
Chain”.
Additional:
• An article appeared about the book in Times of Oman on December 15th,
2013.
• An article appeared about the book in Horizon, 10th of January 2014’s
edition.
• I had an interview in Oman General Television in a program called Morning Coffee on 19th of February, 2014.
• I appeared in the 2014 yearly magazine called Jawharat Oman.
• I have received the Excellence Award on Oct27th, 2014 on Educational
Services. Then I have appeared in Al Mara’a magazine, December2014’s
edition.
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• I have received an award in the University Day on May5th, 2015.
References:
Prof. Ibrahim Eltayeb
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
College of Science,
Sultan Qaboos University.
P.O.Box 36, Al Khod, PC123,
Sultanate of Oman.
Prof. Mohammed Khan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
College of Science,
Sultan Qaboos University.
P.O.Box 36, Al Khod, PC123,
Sultanate of Oman.
Prof. Nirmal Sacheti
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
College of Science,
Sultan Qaboos University.
P.O.Box 36, Al Khod, PC123,
Sultanate of Oman.
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