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Joseph Grcar

CA

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Joseph "Doc" Grcar is a retired government laboratory scientist and former Sierra Club officer who has lived in Castro Valley most of his life. He says East Bay special-district boards need clearer financial reporting, formal planning, steadier leadership, and more attention to underserved areas.

Track record

Track record — General

General · 4 records

  • Spoke during public comment at an AC Transit board meeting, calling for new ideas to cut the agency's high operating costs, including replacing buses with self-driving vehicles and robotaxis.

    August 12, 2026

    Source: actransit.legistar1.com

  • Gave a Stanford seminar talk arguing that recent statistical estimates show polar bear populations appear stable. Stanford's bio describes him as a former computational scientist at national labs in Livermore and Berkeley and an original developer of the Chemkin chemistry software.

    February 2, 2026

    Source: icme.stanford.edu

  • Published a study finding that U.S. research universities have more mathematics faculty outside their math departments than inside, and that this group does most math research. It ran in the journal Higher Education.

    January 2, 2011

    Source: arxiv.org

  • Published a history of mathematics paper showing that the method now called Gaussian elimination traces back to Isaac Newton's notes. It later ran in the journal Historia Mathematica.

    July 14, 2009

    Source: arxiv.org

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