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Álvaro Francisco Huertas-Rosero

Some useful information about myself


Acadaemic things
  • My Master Thesis
  • Some paper I wrote about QM
  • Universidad de los Andes
  • Universidad de Nariño
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • University of Glasgow
  • Quantum Computation at Universidad del Cauca
  • Group of Theoretical Chemistry at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • My first seminar talk
  • Quantum Logics and Contexts in text

Personal stuff


  • My blog (english)
  • My blog (spanish)
  • Pictures
  • The loveliest person on earth

Other interests
  • Buddhism (wikipedia)
  • Scotland Buddhist Vihara
  • Ken Wilber's phylosophy
  • Colombia (some etiquette, just in case you want to go)
  • Colombia (if you want to know A LOT)
Time wasting (fun)
  • My Cat Hates You dot com
  • Ph. D. COMICS.  You are not the only one.
  • Monty Python's completely useless site
  • The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (h2g2)
  • Tom Sharpe, in several languages

Me
Who am I?

I was born in Pasto, Nariño, Colombia, some 19th of October, in 1971.   I lived there, and studied in a catholic school owned by the Society of Jesus ® untill 1989.   I am a chemist (more information below), I am a phycisist (sort of, more information below) and now I study a Ph. D. in Computing Sciences at the University of Glasgow, at the Information Retrieval group, under the advise of professors Keith van Rijsbergen and Leif Azzopardi.

What do I do?

Right now I am trying to develop mathematical models based on Quantum Theory for Invormaion Retrieval.   If you are interested in my work, you can find me at:
OFFICE:
Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ  office 221
EMAIL: alvaro@dcs.gla.ac.uk
TELEPHONE: 0141 3301642
MOBILE PHONE: 0789 688 9297


What have I done so far

ACADAEMIC STUDIES
• Bachelor degree:
  Chemist. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, august 1998
  Meritory Mention for the B.Sc. thesis
  “Estudio teórico de Algunos Rearreglos Moleculares del Sistema C4 H8 +”
  “Theoretical Study of some Molecular Rearrangements of the system C4 H8 +”


• Postgraduate degree:
  Magister in Sciences: Physics, Universidad de los Andes, march 2004
Thesis: "
Classification of Quantum Symmetric Non-zero Sum 2x2 Games in the Eisert Scheme"

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:             SEE HERE

PUBLICATIONS

1. “An Algorighm for Singular Value Decomposition of Matrices in Blocks”
Technical Report, Department of Computing Sciences, University of Glasgow. TR-2008-269
Glasgow, U. K., april 2008
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/publications/PAPERS/8858/SVD_blocks.pdf
2. “Characterising through Erasing: A Theoretical Framework for Representing Documents Inspired by Quantum Theory”
Position paper in Quantum Interaction Symposium 2008
Oxford, U.K.
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/publications/PAPERS/8789/CharacterisingErasingFinal.pdf
3.  “Classification of Quantum Symmetric Non-zero Sum 2x2 Games in the Eisert Scheme”
Master Degree thesis
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 2003
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402117
4. “A Cartography for 2x2 Symmetric Games”
Presented for the III Colombian Congress and I Andean International Con-ference of Operational Research (Cartagena, Colombia, March 2004)
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.GT/0312005
5. “Correlación sin interacción en sistemas de fermiones: El hueco de Fermi”
Revista Colombiana de Física, volúmen 33 número 1, año 2001, página 48
ISSN: 0120-2650
6. “Producir en el Laboratorio: una propuesta de evaluación del trabajo experimental”
Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Nariño RECYM
Año 02, Número 4, 1999     ISSN: 0124-0285
7. “Metodo científico, medición”
Chapters from the text “Aprendiendo conceptos - Ciencias” grado 6
Fundación Internacional Alberto Merani de Pedagogia Conceptual (FIPC)
To be printed
8. “Nomenclatura inorganica”, “Estequiometria”, “La Mol”
Chapters from the text “Aprendiendo conceptos - Ciencias” grado 8
Fundación Internacional Alberto Merani de Pedagogia Conceptual (FIPC)
To be printed

ACADAEMIC EVENTS
1.
Seminar “El quehacer teórico y sus perspectivas holista y reduccionista”
Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Bogotá, D.C. may 1993
2. XXV Congreso Internacional de Químicos Teóricos de Expresión Latina, September, 1998
“Modelo no adiabático para el estudio de dos rearreglos moleculares delsistema C4 H8 +”
“Nonadiabatic model for the study of two molecular rearrangements of thesystem C4 H8 +”
3. XIX Congreso Colombiano de Física, Manizales, Colombia, september 24 to 28, 2001
“Desigualdades de Bell Dependientes del Tiempo” “Time-dependent Bell un-equalities”
4. ESF Meeting on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information
University of Bristol, Physics departament Bristol, England, june 2002
5. Conference “Irreversible Quantum Dynamics” smr 1419
Abdus Salam centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)Trieste, Italy, august 2002
6. III Colombian Congress and I Andean Conference of Operations Research CCIO-2004
“A Cartography for 2x2 Symmetric Games”
Cartagena, Colombia, march 14 to 19, 2004
7. Global Dialogue “¿Porqué preocuparse por las bases científicas de lastecnologías de la información?”
Red GDLN
 Bogotá,Colombia; Medellín,Colombia; San Salvador, El Salvador and México,D.F, Mexico
 november 24th 2004
7. Second Quantum Interaction Symposium
University of Oxford
Oxford, U. K.
march 2008
7. Future Directions in Information Access FDIA 2008
British Computing Society
London, U. K.
september 2008


OTHER
My english blog - MAY THE WIND TAKE US TO INFINITY
My blog, in spanish - QUIZÁ NOS LLEVE EL VIENTO AL INFINITO
A vicious attack against a postmodern architect - EL INMENSO ESPACIO DE LO ILEGIBLE