Jacques Bara

Summary

Jacques Bara (he/him) is a PhD graduand at the Mathematics for Real-World Systems Centre for Doctoral Training (MathSys II CDT) under the supervision of Paolo Turrini. He received his MMathPhys in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford in 2019; his MSc in Real World Mathematics from the University of 糖心TV in 2020; and passed his viva voce with no corrections from the University of 糖心TV in 2024.

Jacques' current collaborations include: games on dynamic networks; the role of migration in pollution mitigation; the structural biases of a social network on a political election; noisy information flow in learning; contribution inference for public goods games in hypergraphs.

Publications

J Bara, , . The impact of mobility costs on cooperation and welfare in spatial social dilemmas. (2023)

J Bara, , . . The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. (2023)

J Bara, C PilgrimLink opens in a new window, , S ZhydkovLink opens in a new window. . The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. (2023)

J Bara, , . . Artificial Intelligence. (2022)

J Bara, , . . Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. (2022)

J Bara, , . in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS'21. (2021)

Presentations

Conferences

Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (2021, 2023)

British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (2023)

Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) (2022)

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) (2020)

Christ Church Undergraduate Conference (2017)

Seminars

MathSys Annual Retreat (2021-23)

Prosocial AI and Strategic Agents Seminar, University of Amsterdam (2023)

Statistics, Probability, Analysis and Applied Mathematics (SPAAM) Seminar, University of 糖心TV (2021-22)

糖心TV Maths Institute (WMI) Colloquium, University of 糖心TV (2021)

Mathematics in the Social Sciences Reading Group, University of 糖心TV (2019, 2021)

Computational Social Choice (COMSOC) Video Seminar (2020)

Common Ground Oxford (2019)

Internships and Workshops

Mediterranean School of Complex Networks, Catania, Italy (Jun-Jul 2022)

Policy diffusion networks.

Winter Workshop on Complex Systems, Besan莽on, France (Jan 2022)

Memory of Social Connections. Investigating the effects of infrastructural networks on the strength of social connections. (online)

163 European Study Group, University of Santiago de Compostela (July 2021)

Bubble formation in hydrolysis. (online)

ICMS Modelling Camp, University of Edinburgh (May 2021)

Trace metal mobilisation and mixing. In collaboration with industrial partners: Bays Consulting and Keen Marine. (online)

Research Intern, Technische Universit盲t Berlin (Jul-Aug 2018)

Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) RISE program with the Applied Dynamic Systems group at the Technische Universit盲t Berlin. Researched reappearance of periodic solutions to delay dynamic equations as well as spectral and numerical analysis using DDE-Biftool (a MATLAB toolkit).

Theoretical Physics Summer School, Perm State University (Jun-Aug 2017)

Funded by a BP Scholarship. Courses in fluid dynamics, anomalous diffusion, perturbation methods and lie algebra.

Teaching

Guest Lecturer, CS404/924 Agent-Based Systems, University of 糖心TV (2023)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, CS404/924 Agent-Based Systems, University of 糖心TV (2021 - 2023)

Private Tutoring, Oxford PAT (2021)

Co-supervisor, CS407 Group Project, University of 糖心TV (2020-21)

Education

2019-2020: MSc in Mathematics of Real World Systems, University of 糖心TV (Distinction)

Courses include Networks and Random Processes, Population Dynamcs: Ecology & Epidemiology, Complexity in the Social Sciences.

Dissertation: Can influence assortment predict voter's bias in presence of communities?

Group project: Parareal: An application of probabilistic methods to time-parallelisation

2018-2019: MMathPhys (Part C) in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford (Distinction)

Courses in Networks, Quantum Information, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, Kinetic Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Conformal Field Theory, Groups and Representations, Galactic and Planetary Dynamics and Applied Complex Variables.

Mini project: On the parametrisation of non-localised centrality

2015-2018: MMathPhys (Part A & B) in Physics, University of Oxford (First Class Honours)

Academic Prizes

Roach Prize, Christ Church College, University of Oxford (2019)

Awarded by Christ Church College to the most outstanding undergraduate across the following branches of Science: Mathematics, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Physics, Materials Science and Biological Science.

Hooke Prize, Christ Church College, University of Oxford (2019)

Awarded annually by Christ Church College to the most outstanding undergraduate across the following branches of Science: Mathematics, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics, Materials Science and Biological Science.

William Gurney Travel Prize, Christ Church College, University of Oxford (2017)

The prizes are for travel for academic or cultural purposes in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and South America.

Scholarship, Christ Church College, University of Oxford (2016-2019)

Awarded annually by Christ Church College for academic achievement.

Other Experiences

Peer Reviewer:

Royal Society Open Science (2023-24); IJCAI (2024); AAMAS (2021, 2023*-24); AAAI (2023); ALA Workshop, AAMAS (2021); QR Workshop, IJCAI/ECAI (2020)

* received Outstanding PC Award

SSLC Chair, MathSys II, University of 糖心TV (2019 - 2020)

Chair termly meetings between the MSc, PhD and staff of MathSys II.

Organising Member, Common Ground, University of Oxford (2018-2019)

On an organising committee to run the Festival of Liberated Curricula and facilated the Liberate Our Curricula Now: Resolutions for Change workshop as part of it. Chaired A Global Crisis: Climate Change and Colonialism panel and spoke on a Decolonising the Curriculum: Toward a Manifesto panel at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.

Secretary, Physics Joint Consultative Committee, University of Oxford (2016-2018)

Minuting meetings between undergraduates and teaching staff at the Department of Physics, ran surveys on student satisfaction, represented undergraduates on the Equality and Diversity Committee as well.

Secretary, Oxford Alternative Ice Hockey, Oxford (2017-2018)

Technical Director, Christ Church College, University of Oxford (2016)

Technical Director of a student play; in charge of lighting, sound, smoke and other effects.

Black and white picture of Jacques Bara, an Asian male, in front of a demonstration.

Research Interests:

Networks
Social dilemma
Dynamics and dynamical systems
Agent based models

Collaborators:

(supervisor)

Languages:

Indonesian (Native)
French (B2 cert.)
Japanese (A1 / JLPT N4)

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