Alejandra T. Manotas

🇲🇽 Morelia, México • +52 (444) 464-1529 • alejatorresm@gmail.com

🚲 I am a mathematician

🚲 My area of research is in dynamical systems, and in particular in celestial mechanics and perturbation theory.

🚲 I am a Ph.D. student at CCM, UNAM.



Education

Ph.D Student

🇲🇽 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Morelia, México.
Holomophic Dynamical Systems
August 2021 - now

M.Sc. Apply mathematics and mathematical physics

🇲🇽 Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. San Luis Potosí, México.

The research topic was perturbation theory. Some of the courses taken were Control Theory, Perturbation Theory, General Relativity, Representation Theory and Integral Asymptotic Approximation.

August 2017 - June 2019

Research Student

🇨🇦 Queen's University. Kingston, Canadá.

I made a numerical study of the Sitnikov problem, which is a perturbation of the two-body problem where the perturbation mass moves along a line perpendicular to the primary masses.

September 2018 - January 2019

B.Sc. in Mathematics

🇨🇴 Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz. Bogotá, Colombia.

The research topic was Celestial Mechanics. My major is in Mathematics with some specialized courses like Partial Differential Equations, Continuous Dynamical Systems, Celestial Mechanics and Differential Geometry. My minor is in programming with knowledge of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Java, Matlab and SQL. The courses I have taken are Introduction to Programming, Data Structures, Databases and Parallel Programming.

January 2012 - December 2016

Study Abroad: Mathematics

🇲🇽 Universidad de Guadalajara. Guadalajara, México.

I have taken the following courses: Vector Space Theory, Non-Euclidean Geometries, Finite Differences and Analytical Mechanics.

August 2014 - November 2014

Experience

📡 Graduate Research Assistant

Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz

Research area: Dynamical Systems, Celestial Mechanics and Elliptic Functions.

Supervisor: Ph.D. Alexander Arredondo García

Products: Potencial homogéneo generalizado y el problema de Kepler (Article published).

GitHub Repository: EllipticFunctions

https://github.com/AlejandraTM/EllipticFunctions
January 2017 - November 2017

👩‍🏫 Lecturer

Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz

Course: Discrete Maths (Web page)

Other activities: Office hours

Teacher training: Workshop for teachers at Jupyter Notebook and GitHubPages (Link GitHub)

January 2020 - June 2021

Skills

🧠 Languages
  • Fluent: Spanish (Native)
  • Medium: English (B1)
  • Biginner: Portuguese, LSM

🛰️ Programming Languages
  • C++
  • Python
  • Mathematica
  • SageMAth
  • Julia

Publications

📓 Avendaño-Camacho M, Torres-Manotas A, Vallejo JA. Closed stable orbits in a strongly coupled resonant Wilberforce pendulum. Journal of Vibration and Control. 2022;28(7-8):892-901. doi:10.1177/1077546320986023 Link.


📓 Jhon A. Arredondo, Alejandra Torres Manotas. Potencial homogéneo generalizado y el problema de Kepler. Miscelánea Matemática 68.1, pp. 85–112. Link.


📓 Jhon A. Arredondo, Alejandra Torres Manotas. Una breve discusión sobre algunas funciones especiales. Sigma 12.2, pp. 1–30. Link.



Posts

    🔗 Presentaciones usando Jupyter Notebook. Medium. Link.

    🔗 Albert Einstein y la Órbita de Mercurio. Blog de astronomia de Astro-K. Link.

    🔗 Breve recorrido por el desarrollo de las geometrías no euclideanas. Link.

    🔗 Sabes que eres matemático si... porque no todos tienen el placer de estudiar matemáticas. Link.

    🔗 Caos en el amor. Link.

    🔗 Eclipses en el Sistema Sol - Tierra - Luna. Link.