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Names: Omar Andres
Lastnames: Zapata Mesa
Emails: ,omazapa@gfif.udea.edu.co
Job: Developer at High Energy Physics Research Group GFIF at Universidad de Antioquia
ACADEMIC EVENTS
- Latin America High Performance and Grid Computing - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
- Scipy Conference 2010 at Austin Texas.
- Gtoc5: with Computational Physics and Astrophysics Group (FACom)
- Congress on Computational Intelligence (Speaker) 2010. Institución Universitaria Tecnológico Pascual Bravo.
- Google Summer of Code 2010.
- Google Summer of Code 2012.
COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES
- Computational Physics, Physics Institute, Universidad de Antioquia: Teacher Jorge Zuluaga Callejas, PhD.
- Advanced Scientific Programming in Python: Teacher Fernando Perez University of California at Berkeley PhD
- Orbital Mechanics: Teacher Ricardo Restrepo Msc and Ph.D Student University of Texas at Austin. Aerospatial Engineering.
- Computational Numerical Methods:Teacher Jorge Zuluaga Callejas, PhD.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Head Developer Phenomenology of Fundamental Interactions Group (Gfif)http://gfif.udea.edu.co Division of computer science Gfif Developers (GfifDev)
- System Manager of Regional Center for Simulation and Advanced Computing (CRESCA), University’s headquarters of research (SIU), Universidad de Antioquia (2009)
- Head developer of Computer Science Developer, of Computational Physics and Astrophysics Group (FACom) Univerdiad de Antioquia.
- Computer Assistant in the Journal of Physics: Sociedad Colombiana de Física. (2010)
- Google Summer of Code 2010 programmer, with the python organization in scipy (Scientific Python) division in the project Ipython (Interactive Python), Mentor: Fernando Perez University of California at Berkeley.
- Google Summer of Code 2012 programmer, with the CERN organization in the ROOT team. Mentor: Fons Rademakers CERN.
- Teacher/trainer of Scientific Computing in Python http://gfif.udea.edu.co/web/tiki-index.php?page=Extension+Python&structure=gfif+(es)
- Software developer in C + + for Orbital Mechanics Group at the University of Texas at Austin, mentored by Dr. Cesar Ocampo.