Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Contact

email: octavioz[at]ciencias.unam.mx

Teaching

• Number Theory (UNAM, 2025)

• Mathematical Modelling (UNAM, 2025)

• Coding Theory (UNAM, 2025)

• Spectral Graph Theory (UNAM, 2024)

• Mathematical Modelling  (UNAM, 2023)

• Discrete Mathematics (UNAM, 2023)

• Sets and Logic (UNAM, 2023)

• Measure Theory (UNAM, 2022)

• Algebra (UNAM, 2021)

• Theory of Computing (UCL, 2017)

• Logic and Databases (UCL, 2015)

Students

• Francisco Ismael Bolaños Becerra (BSc student, 2024- )

• Gabriel Ocelotl Salazar Cruz (BSc student, 2024- )

• Luis Arturo Proudinat Pérez (BSc student, 2024- )

• Ana Paula Toledo Tellez (BSc student, 2024- )

• Mario Oscar Franco Méndez (MSc student, 2019-2021)

Publications

1. Quasi-strongly regular graphs on the flags of symmetric designs, Eugenia O'Reilly-Regueiro, Octavio B. Zapata-Fonseca, arXiv preprint

2. Edge-transitive token graphs as covers, Sergio G. Gómze-Galicia, Octavio B. Zapata-Fonseca, arXiv preprint

3. Bridging abstract dialectical argumentation and Boolean gene regulation, Eugenio Azpeitia, Stan Muñoz Gutiérrez, David A. Rosenblueth and Octavio Zapata, arXiv preprint

4. Distinguishing graphs with two integer matrices, Carlos A. Alfaro, Ralihe R. Villagrán and Octavio Zapata, arXiv preprint

5. First-order logic characterizations of distance-regularized and controllable graphs, Aida Abiad, Anuj Dawar and Octavio Zapata, arXiv preprint

6. The degree-distance and transmission-adjacency matrices, Carlos A. Alfaro and Octavio Zapata, Computational and Applied Mathematics (2024)

7. Técnicas espectrales en la teoría de gráficas, Octavio Zapata, Miscelanea Matemática (2024)

8. Descriptive complexity of controllable graphs, Aida Abiad, Anuj Dawar and Octavio Zapata, Procedia Computer Science (2023)

9. Heterogeneity extends criticality, Carlos Gershenson, Gerardo Iñiguez, Omar K. Pineda, Fernanda Sánchez-Puig and Octavio Zapata, Frontiers in Complex Systems (2023)

10. Random networks with quantum Boolean functions, Mario Franco, Carlos Gershenson, David A. Rosenblueth and Octavio Zapata, Mathematics (2021)

11. Effectus of quantum probability on relational structures, Octavio Zapata, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (2020)

12. Descriptive complexity of graph spectra, Anuj Dawar, Simone Severini and Octavio Zapata, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (2019)

13. The quantum monad on relational structures, Samson Abramsky, Rui Soares Barbosa, Nadish de Silva and Octavio Zapata, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (2017)

14. Pebble games and cospectral graphs, Anuj Dawar, Simone Severini and Octavio Zapata, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (2017)