José Antonio Zapata
Centro de Ciencias Matemáticas
UNAM Campus Morelia Morelia
CP 58190 Michoacán, México

Before being here:
Bs Physics UNAM, México
PhD Physics Penn State, USA
Postdoc RRI, India

Organization of group seminar

The seminar is organized by R. Oeckl and J. Zapata. Here is a link to the schedule.

Currently teaching

Lagrangian classical field theory: Multisymplectic formalism
Graduate level (8/2012 - 2/2013)

References:
• Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, by V I Arnold, Ch. 9
• Momentum maps and classical fields I by Marsden, Gotay, Isenberg, Montgomeri , Sniatiki and Yasskin
• Multisymplectic Variational Integrators and non linear PDEs by Marsden, Patrick and Shkoller

Some of my previous courses

Lattice gauge theory
Graduate level. (8/2011 - 2/2012) (3/2010 - 7/2010)

Calculus
Intensive course for candidates to enter the graduate program in Mathematics. (10/2009 - 12/2009)


Wilson's renormalization
* Tutorial/course. Graduate level. (3/2009 - 7/2009)

Loop quantization
* Tutorial/course. Graduate level. (8/2008 - 2/2009)

Introduction to QFT for mathematicians
* Tutorial/course. Graduate level. (3/2008 - 7/2008)

Statistical physics
BSc level. (3/2006 - 7/2006)

General relativity 1
Graduate level. (3/2004 - 7/2004)

Calculus 3 (vector calculus)
BSc level. (3/2002 - 7/2003)