James Mracek
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- School: University of Toronto
- Campus: St. George Campus
- Department: Mathematics
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Toronto, ON - Dates at University of Toronto: June 2015 - May 2017
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Biography
University of Toronto St. George Campus - Mathematics
Applied Scientist at A9.com
James
Mracek
San Francisco, California
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer walks into a bar. His name is James.
In me, you'll find an interdisciplinary problem solver with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. My training as a mathematician allows me to think abstractly about very hard problems, while my training as an engineer keeps me grounded in reality and focused on finding concrete solutions to those problems.
My current obsession is to give an answer to the question: How much do my advertising campaigns really affect my company's bottom line? Traditionally, adtech has used rule based attribution models to assign value to marketing campaigns; however, the rules everyone has agreed to use are somewhat arbitrary, and can be easily manipulated to make a particular campaign look more impactful than it really is. The solution to this problem is to measure the value of marketing campaign using "incrementality", which is a fancy way of saying that we should always put a dollar value on our marketing campaigns by running experiments.
My main interest is to use state of the art statistical methods to measure the impact of online retargeting campaigns as precisely as possible.
When I'm not banging my head against a challenging problem, I like to spend my time on a number of other things. I enjoy fooling fish into eating my artificial flies. From time to time I also play board games; my particular favourites are Terra Mystica, Civilization, and Small World. I also make my own bacon (as well as other smoked meats), and might be willing to share. Lately I've also been dabbling as an independent iOS app developer.
Experience
Education
University of Toronto
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Mathematics
University of Toronto
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Physics
University of Toronto
Ph. D. Mathematics
My thesis work involves applying tools in algebraic geometry to studying problems in representation theory of p-adic groups. There is a correspondence between representations of these groups and D-modules on a class of complex algebraic varieties. The main objective of my thesis is to compute "packets" of D-modules which are conjectured to be related through this correspondence to packets of representations which were used in Arthur's work on the classification of the automorphic discrete spectrum.University of Toronto
Course Coordinator/Instructor
-Presented linear algebra and vector calculus lectures to classes from 75-150 students -Designed course materials and corresponding quantitative evaluationsUniversity of Waterloo
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)
Nanotechnology engineering
Options in mathematics and physics
Publications
Arthur packets and Adams-Barbasch-Vogan packets for p-adic groups, 1: Background and Conjectures
arXiv
Preprint
Arthur packets and Adams-Barbasch-Vogan packets for p-adic groups, 1: Background and Conjectures
arXiv
Preprint
On the Duistermaat-Heckman distribution of $\Omega G$
Conference proceedings for the 70th birthday of Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University Press
Accepted for publication.
Arthur packets and Adams-Barbasch-Vogan packets for p-adic groups, 1: Background and Conjectures
arXiv
Preprint
On the Duistermaat-Heckman distribution of $\Omega G$
Conference proceedings for the 70th birthday of Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University Press
Accepted for publication.
Building a spin quantum bit register using semiconductor nanowires
IOPscience, Nanotechnology
An SEM image I took was used as the cover page for this issue of the journal!
Arthur packets and Adams-Barbasch-Vogan packets for p-adic groups, 1: Background and Conjectures
arXiv
Preprint
On the Duistermaat-Heckman distribution of $\Omega G$
Conference proceedings for the 70th birthday of Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University Press
Accepted for publication.
Building a spin quantum bit register using semiconductor nanowires
IOPscience, Nanotechnology
An SEM image I took was used as the cover page for this issue of the journal!
Development of an electronic nose sensing platform for undergraduate education in nanotechnology
IOPscience, European Journal of Physics
Publication resulting from our 4th year engineering design project.
Arthur packets and Adams-Barbasch-Vogan packets for p-adic groups, 1: Background and Conjectures
arXiv
Preprint
On the Duistermaat-Heckman distribution of $\Omega G$
Conference proceedings for the 70th birthday of Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University Press
Accepted for publication.
Building a spin quantum bit register using semiconductor nanowires
IOPscience, Nanotechnology
An SEM image I took was used as the cover page for this issue of the journal!
Development of an electronic nose sensing platform for undergraduate education in nanotechnology
IOPscience, European Journal of Physics
Publication resulting from our 4th year engineering design project.
Are carbon nanotubes a naturally occurring material? Hints from methane CVD using lava as a catalyst
Current Nanoscience, Bentham Science Publishers
