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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Implementation by Decent Mechanisms
Jernej Copic
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, January 12, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
Sympathy Before Sensibility
Seth Lobis
Yale University

Wednesday, January 12, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Concentration in Economics and Finance
Bruno Strulovici
Department of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University

Thursday, January 13, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Principal-Agent Problems and Optimal Compensation in Continuous-Time Models
Jaksa Cvitanic
Professor of Mathematics and Economics
USC

Friday, January 14, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
Poetry Under Construction: Bentley's 'Paradise Lost' and the Early Editing of English Verse
Kristine Louise Haugen
Assistant Professor
University of Washington

Friday, January 14, 2005
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German or Swiss German with English undertitles)
The Inheritors (1984) - (Austria - Walter Bannert)

Thursday, January 20, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Optimal Conditional Inference for Instrumental Variables Regression
Laura Chioda
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, January 20, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
Folk Psychology and Moral Blame
Joshua Knobe
Department of Philosophy
Princeton University

Friday, January 21, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Optimal Pricing Police with Recommended Systems
Deran Ozmen
Department of Economics
Yale University

Monday, January 24, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Finite-order Implications of Any Equilibrium
Jonathan Weinstein
Department of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, January 26, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
On the Robustness of Economic Models to Heavy-tailedness Assumptions
Rustam Ibragimov
Department of Economics
Yale University

Thursday, January 27, 2005
Noon, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
Modeling Moral Conflict
Zachary Ernst
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Florida State University

Thursday, January 27, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Colluding on Participation Decisions
Gregory Pavlov
Department of Economics
Northwestern University

Friday, January 28, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Collective Choice with Communication
Leeat Yariv
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech
Department of Economics, UCLA

Friday, January 28, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Distinguishing Bounded Rationality from Overconfidence in Financial Markets - Theory & Experimental Results
Shimon Kogan
Department of Finance
University of California, Berkeley
Haas School of Business

Monday, January 31, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Partial Identification of Spread Parameters When Some Data Are Missing
Jorg Stoye
Department of Economics
Northwestern University

Tuesday, February 1, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Semiparametric Estimation of a Simultaneous Game With Incomplete Information
Andres Aradillas-Lopez
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, February 3, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
Will the Real Emotions Please Stand Up?: Insights and Blind Spots of Contemporary Emotion Theory
Andrea Scarantino
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh

Friday, February 4, 2005
2:30 pm, Huntington Library, Overseers' Room
Meet the Author:
Merrill Joan Gerber will read from her new book of stories
THIS IS A VOICE FROM YOUR PAST: New and Selected Stories by Merrill Joan Gerber
Merrill Joan Gerber
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Caltech

Friday, February 4, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
N.J. Berrill and the Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Ascidians
Alan Love
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh

Monday, February 7, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
The Impact of Simple Institutions in Experimental Economies with Poverty Traps
Tomomi Tanaka
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics
Caltech

Tuesday, February 8, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Assessing Legislative Accomplishment in the U.S., 1877 to 1944
John Lapinski
Professor
Department of Political Science
Yale University

Wednesday, February 9, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Information Transmission with Cheap and Almost-Cheap Talk
Navin Kartik
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
UCSD

Wednesday, February 9, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Evolution and Evolvability of Culture
Kim Sterelny
Professor of Philosophy
The Australian National University

Wednesday, February 9, 2005
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
HSS/Words Matter Program
Art Spiegelman
Writer-artist

Friday, February 11, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Ernst Mayr's Identification of Typology as the Enemy of Darwin: an Exercise in Metahistory
Mary P. Winsor
Professor Emeritus
University of Toronto
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Tuesday, February 15, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Humanities Job Candidate
Speaker Reed's Traffic Cop
Chris Den Hartog
Lecturer
University of California, San Diego

Wednesday, February 16, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)/Bray Theory Workshop
Learning in Games and Feedback Control
Jeff Shamma
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
UCLA

Thursday, February 17, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Cognition/Neuroscience Series
When Language Disrupts Affect: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
Matthew Lieberman
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
UCLA

Friday, February 18, 2005
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German or Swiss German with English undertitles)
The Inheritors (1998) - (Austria - Stefan Ruzowitzky)

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
4:00 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium
James Michelin Seminar Series
Universities and Their Spaces: the Special History of the Campus as a 'Place' for Learning
Sheldon Rothblatt
Professor of History and Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Trust and the City: Measuring Social Capital With a Field Experiment
Armin Falk
Professor of Economics
University of Bonn

Wednesday, February 23, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Von Neumann-Morgenstern Stable Sets in Matching Problems
Lars Ehlers
Professor, Department of Economics
University of Montreal

Thursday, February 24, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Humanities Job Candidate
The Russian Peasant Commune 1750-1860: Romanticism vs. Reality
Tracy Dennison
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Cambridge

Friday, February 25, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Real Reason Genes Are at the Center of Attention in Biological Research
Ken Waters
University of Minnesota

Monday, February 28, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
The Political Economy of the Public Provision of Goods
Al Slivinski
University of Western Ontario

Tuesday, March 1, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Does the U.S. Constitution Need an ERA?
Andrew D. Martin
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Washington University

Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
The Form of Property Rights: Oligarchic Versus Democratic Societies
Daron Acemoglu
Professor of Economics
MIT

Wednesday, March 2, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Robust Monopoly Pricing (joint with Karl Schlag)
Dirk Bergemann
Professor of Economics
Yale University

Thursday, March 3, 2005
4:00 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium
William and Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lecture in Science and Civilization
Is There a Neurophysiological Challenge to Freedom and Responsibility of Human Action
Julian Nida-Rumelin
Visiting Associate in Philosophy, Caltech
Professor of Philosophy, Chair for Political Theory and Philosophy, University of Munich

Thursday, March 10, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Predicting the 'Unpredictable'
Rakesh Vohra
Professor of Decision Sciences, MEDS
Northwestern University

Monday, March 14, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Learning Competitive Equilibrium in Laboratory Exchange Economies
Sean Crocket
IST-SISL Postdoctoral Scholar
Caltech

Thursday, March 17, 2005
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
Einstein Centennial Lectures
Albert Einstein in 1905 - Finding News Paths to the Depths of Physics
Martin J. Klein
Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Physics and History of Science at Yale University; former general editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein

Tuesday, March 22, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Moral Luck - Why Chance is Morally Irrelevant
Julian Nida-Rumelin
Visiting Associate in Philosophy, Caltech
Professor of Philosophy, Chair for Political Theory and Philosophy, University of Munich

Tuesday, March 29, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Uncertainty, Risk and Economic Development
Hilton Root
Freeman Fellow and Visiting Professor of Economics
Pitzer College

Wednesday, March 30, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Competitive Contracting and Employment Dynamics
Yuliy Sannikov
Assistant Professor of Economics
UC Berkeley

Thursday, March 31, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
How Hard Is It to Manipulate Voting?
Edith Elkind
Visiting Scholar
UCLA

Monday, April 4, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Political Predation and Economic Development
Bruno Biais
Universite de Toulouse

Tuesday, April 5, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
A Theory Waiting to be Discovered and Used: Uncovering New Results about Majority Rule
William Bianco
Penn State University

Wednesday, April 6, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)/Bray Theory Workshop
Network Design in Games with Spillover
Sergio Currarini
Professor of Economics
University of Venice

Thursday, April 7, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Cognition/Neuroscience Series
Understanding Others: Neuronal Basis of Mind Reading, Empathy and Fairness
Tania Singer
Research Fellow
Functional Imaging Laboratory
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience

Friday, April 8, 2005
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German or Swiss German with English undertitles)
Hot Summer (1968) - GDR-East Germany

Monday, April 11, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Asset Pricing, Portfolio Selection, and Welfare Analysis in Hierarchical Segmented Markets
James Primbs
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University

Wednesday, April 13, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Market Structure, Scale Economies and Industry Performance
Rabah Amir
Professor, Department of Economics
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona

Wednesday, April 13, 2005
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Art and Science: A Da Vinci Detective Story
John Brewer
Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences; Professor of History and Literature
Caltech

Friday, April 15, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Using 'Error' as a Probe in Historical Analysis: The Case of Galileo vs. Kepler
Giora Hon
University of Haifa; Dibner Institute, MIT

Wednesday, April 20, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Dethroning Dictators and Explaining Voting Paradoxes
Donald Saari
Professor of Economics and Mathematics
UC Irvine

Thursday, April 21, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Competition & Efficiency in Markets with Quality Uncertainty
Suresh Mutuswami
Professor of Economics
University of Essex

Wednesday, April 27, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Competitive Experimentation with Private Information
Francesco Squintani
Lecturer in Economics
University College, London

Thursday, April 28, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Cognition/Neuroscience Series
Emotion, Decision and Individual Differences
Daniel Houser
ICES
George Mason University

Friday, April 29, 2005
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Workshop in Financial Econometrics
Various Speakers
Giuseppe Ragusa (UCSD): TBA; Massimo Guidolin (St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank) Strategic Asset Allocation and Consumption Decisions under Multivariate Regime Switching; Rossen Valkanov (Anderson): Parametric Portfolio Policies: Exploiting Characteristics in the Cross Section of Equity Returns

Friday, April 29, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Einstein as Object and Tool of Historical Research
Diana Kormos-Buchwald
Associate Professor of History
Caltech

Tuesday, May 3, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Minimal Cost Spanning Trees
Bhaskar Dutta
Professor of Economics
Warwick University

Monday, May 9, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Single Value Combinatorial Auctions and Implementation
in Undominated Strategies
Ron Lavi
Postdoctoral Scholar in Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL)
Caltech

Tuesday, May 10, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Side-Effects of Campaign Finance Reform
Mattias Dahm
Northwestern University

Wednesday, May 11, 2005
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
Einstein Centennial Lectures
Are There Really Atoms? What Einstein Showed Us in 1905
John D. Norton
Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh

Thursday, May 12, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Censored Regression Quantiles with Endogenous Regressors
James Powell
Professor of Economics
UC Berkeley

Friday, May 13, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Slavery and the Missouri Crisis Revis'd
Sean Wilentz
Professor of History
Director, Program in American Studies
Department of History
Princeton University

Monday, May 16, 2005
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Informational Efficiency of Pricing Mechanisms in Networks
Tudor Stoenescu
Postdoctoral Scholar in Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL)
Caltech

Monday, May 16, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Matthew, Mark, John, and Risk Aversion
Uzi Segal
Professor of Economics
Boston College

Monday, May 16, 2005
8:00 pm, Sharp Auditorium, 155 Arms Laboratory
Words Matter
Science Writing Symposium
Professor Christof Koch, author Leonard Mlodinow, and Margaret Wertheim

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 2nd Year Presentations
Temptation and Optimal Consumption in the Buffer Stock Savings Model
Alexander Brown
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, May 20, 2005
4 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Citizen-Candidates Under Uncertainty
Jon Eguia
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, May 20, 2005
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German or Swiss German with English undertitles)
The Harmonists (Comedian Harmonists) (1997 - Germany)

Monday, May 23, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
A Neural-Net Model of Product Evaluation and Marketing
Meghana Bhatt
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Political Institutions and Group Identity
Elizabeth Maggie Penn
Assistant Professor of Political Economy
Carnegie Mellon University

Wednesday, May 25, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Optimal Multi Unit Auctions: Who Gets what Matters (joint paper with Nicolas Figueroa, University of Minnesota and Vasiliki Skreta, UCLA
Vasiliki Skreta
Professor of Economics
UCLA

Thursday, May 26, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
How Much is Enough? The 'Ballot Order Effect' and the Use of Social Science Research in Election Law Disputes
Betsy Sinclair
Graduate Student
Caltech

Thursday, May 26, 2005
4:00 pm, 125 Baxter
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Japanese Sword, A Cultural Icon
Presentation by Richard Suran is in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Japanese Sword: The Yoshihara Tradition of Swordmakers," currently showing until June 19 at the Pacific Asia Museum.
Richard Suran

Tuesday, May 31, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Election Finance in California Counties
Sarah Hill
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, June 1, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Measuring the Effect of Voting Technology on Residual Votes
Delia Grigg
Graduate Student
Caltech

Thursday, June 2, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Agent-Based Modeling of Innovation and Patents
Joel Grus
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, June 3, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Patterns of Information Avoidance in Binary Choice Dictator Games
Lauren Munyan
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, July 26, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Cognition/Neuroscience Series
Reward Prediction by Primate Prefrontal Neurons
Masamichi Sakagami
Tamagawa University

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
Einstein Centennial Lectures
Turning Classical Physics Upside Down: How Einstein Found Relativity Theory
Jurgen Renn
Executive Director
Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Friday, September 30, 2005
11:50 am, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Why is it that Western Europeans Ended up Conquering the Rest of the Globe? Prices, the Military Revolution, and Western Europe's Comparative Advantage in Violence
Philip Hoffman
Professor of History and Social Science
Caltech

Wednesday, October 5, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
A Game Theoretic Approach for Robust Option Pricing
(joint work with Peter Demarzo and Yishay Mansour)
IIan Kremer
Associate Professor of Finance
Stanford University, GSB

Monday, October 10, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Instrumental Variable Estimation of Nonlinear Errors-in-Variables Models
Susanne Schennach
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago

Tuesday, October 11, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
How Does the Brain Make Simple Economic Decisions?
Antonio Rangel
Assistant Professor of Economics
Stanford University

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Unawareness and Framing (joint work with Haluk Ergin)
David Ahn
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, October 13, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Clock Games: Theory and Experiments (joint work with John Morgan)
Markus Brunnermeier
Assistant Professor of Economics
Princeton University

Friday, October 14, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
"Understanding Bias in Nonlinear Panel Models: Some Recent Developments" and "Higher Order Efficiency of Bias Corrections"

Jinyong Hahn
Professor of Economics
UCLA

Friday, October 14, 2005
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Schultze got the Blues (2003)

Monday, October 17, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Estimating Static Models of Strategic Interactions
Patrick Bajari
Professor of Economics
University of Michigan

Tuesday, October 18, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Observing Norms: Explaining the Causes and Consequences for Internationally Monitored Elections
Susan Hyde
Graduate Student
UCSD

Wednesday, October 19, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
The Wisdom of the Minority (joint work with Steven Callander)
Johannes Horner
Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Northwestern University

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Noon, 315 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Extremes and Moderates - A Characterization and an Application to Lobbying
Murali Agastya
Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech
Australian Research Fellow, Economics, SEPS University of Sydney

Thursday, October 20, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
When Does Repression Work?: Collective Behavior Under the Threat of Violence
David Siegel
Graduate Student
Stanford University

Monday, October 24, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Does Minority Representation Matter for Policy Outcomes?: Evidence from the U.S. States
Michiko Ueda
Graduate Student
MIT

Wednesday, October 26, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Identification and Estimation of Discrete Games of Complete Information
Han Hong
Duke University
Associate Professor of Economics

Thursday, October 27, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
The Opportunistic Use of Exchange Rates: From Communists to Social Democrats in Transition Countries
Christine Bodea
Graduate Student
University of Rochester and
Princeton University

Wednesday, November 2, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Optimal Tests for Markov Switching Models
Werner Ploberger
University of Rochester
Professor of Economics

Thursday, November 3, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Capital and Growth with Oligarchic Property Rights (written with Serguey Braguinsky)
Roger Myerson
William C. Norby Professor of Economics
University of Chicago

Friday, November 4, 2005
11:50 am, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making
Ming Hsu
Graduate Student
Caltech

Monday, November 7, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.
Moshe Buchinsky
Professor of Economics
UCLA

Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Noon, 315 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Bookbuilding in Multiple Markets
Debrah Meloso
Graduate Student
Caltech

Thursday, November 10, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Organizing Middle-Size Firms in the United States and France 1830-2000 (Joint with Naomi R. Lamoreaux)
Jean Laurent Rosenthal
Professor of Economics
UCLA

Friday, November 11, 2005
4:00 pm, 237 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Nonstationary Nonlinearity: An Outlook for New Opportunities
Joon Park
Professor of Economics
Rice University

Monday, November 14, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Inside the Black Box of "White Flight": The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods
and
Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence
from the Black Migration
Leah Platt Boustan
Graduate Student
Harvard University

Wednesday, November 16, 2005
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
Einstein Centennial Lectures
Einstein's General Relativity, from 1905 to 2005 Warped Spacetime, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and the Accelerating Universe
Kip Thorne
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics
Caltech

Thursday, November 17, 2005
Noon, 315 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Awareness Equilibrium (joint with Andrea Galeotti)
Jernej Copic
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, November 18, 2005
9:00 am - 5:00pm, 25 Baxter
Caltech Mini-Conference on Repeated Games
Caltech Mini-conference on Repeated Games
Various Speakers
Wojiech Olszewski (Northwestern), Larry Samuelson (Wisconsin), Ichiro Obara (UCLA), David Miller (UCSD)

Friday, November 18, 2005
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Running a Laboratory in 19th-Century Germany: Virchow the Pathologist and Ludwig the Physiologist
Robert G. Frank
Department of History
UCLA

Friday, November 18, 2005
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Mostly Martha (2001)

Monday, November 21, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Identification and Estimation in Structural Models
Rosa Matzkin
Professor of Economics
Northwestern University

Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Noon, 315 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Reference Dependence in General Equilibrium: A Bias Towards Increased Trade
Sean Crocket
SISL Postdoc
Caltech

Tuesday, November 29, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
The Brain as a Hierarchical Organization
Juan Carillo
Professor of Economics
USC

Wednesday, November 30, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Student Seminar
Optimal Robust Bargaining Games
Jernej Copic
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, December 2, 2005
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Big Girls don't Cry (2002)

Monday, December 5, 2005
11:50 am, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Strategic Theory of Network Status
Brian Rogers
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, December 7, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Moral Hazard with Limited Liability (joint with Ohad Kadan)
Jeroen Swinkels
Professor of Economics
Washington University, St. Louis

Thursday, December 8, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Student Seminar
The Ellsberg Paradox and The Neural Foundations of Decision-Making under Uncertainty
Ming Hsu
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, December 9, 2005
11:50 am, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
A Neural-Net Model of Product Evaluation and Marketing
Meghana Bhatt
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, December 9, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
A Solution Concept for Majority Rule in Dynamic Settings
B. Douglas Bernheim
Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor in Economics
Stanford University

Friday, December 16, 2005
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Student Seminar
A Strategic Theory of Network Status
Brian Rogers
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, January 13, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Catholicism and Local Culture in a Northern Chinese Village
Xiao-qing Wang
Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in History
Caltech

Tuesday, January 17, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Perfect Conjectural Equilibrium & Endogenous Market Power
Marek Weretka
Yale University

Thursday, January 19, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
The Importance of Genuine Rivals in Evolutionary Biology
Patrick Forber
Stanford University

Friday, January 20, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Quantile Maximization in Decision Theory
Marzena Rostek
Yale University

Monday, January 23, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Sustainable Reputations with Rating Systems
Mehmet Ekmekci
Princeton University

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
The Colonel Blotto Game
Brian Roberson
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)

Wednesday, January 25, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
Causal Inference, Confirmation and Hypothesis Tests
Jiji Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday, January 26, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
Film Screening
SARRAOUNIA
Award Winning African Feature Film
Med Hondo

Monday, January 30, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Inference for Partially Identified Econometric Models
Azeem Shaikh
Stanford University

Wednesday, February 1, 2006
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
William and Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lecture in Science and Civilization

Oppenheimer's Legacy: Science and Government in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons
Martin J. Sherwin
Professor of History
Tufts University

Friday, February 3, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Signaling Character in Electoral Competition (joint with Navin Kartik, UCSD)
R. Preston McAfee
J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management
Caltech

Friday, February 3, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Aguirre--the Wrath of God (1972)

Thursday, February 9, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Agent-specific Responses Along Cingulate Cortex During Iterated Economic Exchanges
Damon Tomlin
Baylor College of Medicine

Friday, February 10, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Command or Consent? A Theory of Organizational Decision Making (joint with Tore Ellingsen)
Robert Ostling
Stockholm School of Economics

Friday, February 10, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Nosferatu (1979)

Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Noon, Avery Library
Words Matter
Never Coming to a Theater Near You
Kenneth Turan
Film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio

Wednesday, February 15, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Theory Workshop
Level-k Auctions: Can a Non-Equilibrium Model of Strategic Thinking Explain the Winner's Curse and Overbidding in Private-Value Auctions? (joint with Nagore Iriberri)
Vincent Crawford
Professor in Economics
UCSD

Thursday, February 16, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Hedging of Credit Derivatives in Models with Totally Unexpected Default
Marek Rutkowski
University of New South Wales, Australia

Friday, February 17, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Delegated Agents and Asset Pricing
Bradford Cornell
Professor of Finance
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Estimating Individual Distributive Preferences
Daniel Markovits
Associate Professor of Law
Yale Law School, Yale University

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Innateness as Closed Process Invariance
Jonathan Weinburg
Philosophy Department
Indiana University

Friday, February 24, 2006
9:00 am - 5:00pm, 25 Baxter
Caltech Mini-Conference on Political Economy
February 24-25, 2006
Caltech Mini-conference on Political Economy
Various Speakers

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Building MIT: Architecture and Technology
Thomas P. Hughes
Emeritus Professor of History of Science and Technology
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, March 3, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Fitzgeraldo (1982)

Monday, March 6, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Perceptions of Fairness and the 50-50 Norm
B. Douglas Bernheim
Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor in Economics
Stanford University

Monday, March 6, 2006
5:30 pm (note - later time), Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Unification and Coherence
Stephan Hartmann
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
LSE

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Electoral Accountability and the Variety of Democratic Regimes
David Samuels
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Minnesota

Wednesday, March 8, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Common Learning
Jeffrey C. Ely
Professor of Economics
Northwestern University

Thursday, March 9, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
CANCELLED - Brown Bag Seminar
Financially Stimulated Effort Hits Individual Cognitive Constraints: Evidence From a Forecasting Task with Varying Working Memory Load
Rydval Ondrej
Visiting Student, CERGE-EI, Prague

Wednesday, March 15, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
How Do Labor Markets Operate? Gastroenterology as a Case Study for Market Design
Muriel Niederle
Assistant Professor of Economics
Stanford University

Friday, March 17, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Optimal Contracts with Dynamic Actions
Jaksa Cvitanic
Professor of Mathematical Finance
Caltech

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Sharing the Cost of a Non-rival Good: An Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach (joint with F. Maniquet)
Yves Sprumont
Professor of Economics
University of Montreal

Thursday, March 30, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Sick and Tired: The Impact of Medical and Psychological Factors on Foreign Policy Decision Making
Rose McDermott
Associate Professor of Political Science
UC Santa Barbara

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Oracle Efficient Nonparametric Estimation of an Additive Model with an Unknown Link Function
Joel L. Horowitz
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Market Economics
Northwestern University

Thursday, April 6, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Practice Job Talk
Breaking Separation of Powers. Presidential Discretion
as a Result of Competition between Districts
Juliana Bambaci
Graduate Student, Political Science
Stanford University

Thursday, April 6, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Strategic Manipulation of Empirical Tests
Alvaro Sandroni
Professor of Economics
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, April 7, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Descartes' Attempt (in the Regulae), to Base the Certainty of Algebra on Mental Vision
Hendrik Bos
Professor of History of Mathematics, Utrecht University
Visiting Professor of History, Caltech

Friday, April 7, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Free Radicals (Austria - 2003)

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Resources and Strategies South of the Sahara: Long-term Dynamics of African Economic Development, 1500-2000
Gareth Austin
Senior Lecturer in Economic History
London School of Economics

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Approximate Implementability with Ex Post Budget Balance (joint with Ichiro Obara)
David Rahman
UCLA

Friday, April 21, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Financially Stimulated Effort Hits Individual Cognitive Constraints: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Working Memory Load
Ondrej Rydval
Visiting Scholar
CERGE, Prague

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Rational-Choice, Formal-Theoretic Argument Against the Existence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures
Timothy J. Groseclose
Professor of Political Science
UCLA

Thursday, April 27, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
The Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Lambert. Its Development, its Use and its Prestige.
Kirsti Andersen
Visiting Associate in History, Caltech
Associate Professor, Department of History of Science,
University of Aarhus (Denmark)

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Information Aggregation and Group Decisions
Joel Sobel
Professor of Economics
UC San Diego

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Why Are Prices So Bizarre?
R. Preston McAfee
J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management
Caltech

Friday, May 5, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Learning in Games with Unstable Equilibria
Ed Hopkins
Visiting Associate in Economics
University of Edinburgh

Friday, May 5, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Beyond Silence (1997) - Director, Caroline Link

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Sequential Equilibria in Bayesian Games with Communication" (joint with R. Myerson)
Dino Gerardi
Assistant Professor of Economics
Yale University

Thursday, May 11, 2006
8:00 pm, Dabney Lounge
Words Matter

Harryette Mullen
Poet

Friday, May 12, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Influencing the Influencers: a Model of Strategic Diffusion (joint work with Sanjeev Goyal)
Andrea Galeotti
Postdoctoral Scholar in Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL), Caltech, University of Essex

Friday, May 12, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
George Gallup in Hollywood
Susan Ohmer
William T. and Helen Kuhn Carey Assistant Professor of Modern Communication
University of Notre Dame

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Analyzing Legislative Success in Latin America
Ernesto Calvo
University of Houston

Wednesday, May 17, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Knowing What Others Know: Coordination Motives in Information Acquisition (joint with Laura Veldkamp)
Christian Hellwig
Assistant Professor
UCLA, Department of Economics

Friday, May 19, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Kepler's Archetypal Cosmology and Arguments for the Copernican Theory
Noel Swerdlow
University of Chicago

Monday, May 22, 2006
2:00 pm, Huntington Munger Research Center
Caltech-Huntington-Department of Art History at USC Workshop in the History of Collecting
Flaminia Genari Santori (Rome), Experts and Editors: Defining the value of Old Master Painting in the United States, 1900-1910
Charles Dellheim (Boston University), Between Bohemian and Bourgeois: Jewish Art Dealers and Modern Art in Paris

Monday, May 22, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Seminar
Goodman's "New Riddle"
Branden Fitelson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of California at Berkeley

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision: An Experimental Approach
Daniel Posner
Associate Professor of Political Science
UCLA
Visiting Associate in Political Science, Caltech

Wednesday, May 24, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Attack Politics: Who Goes Negative and Why?
Kyle Mattes
Graduate Student
Caltech

Thursday, May 25, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 2nd Year Presentations
Curious? (Kang)
Ambiguity Aversion in Asset Markets: Experimental Study of Home Bias (Myung)
Noah Myung / Min Jeong Kang
Graduate Students
Caltech

Friday, May 26, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Supermodular Implementation
Laurent Mathevet
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, May 26, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Myles W. Jackson
Associate Professor, History of Science
Willamette University

Friday, May 26, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Rosenstrasse (2003)

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Industry Concentration and the Case for Incorporating Strategic Firms into the CAPM
Laura Panattoni
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
A Dynamic Model of Willpower with Personal Rules
Alexander Brown
Graduate Student
Caltech

Thursday, June 1, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Capacity and Price Choice Under Viscous Demand
David Young
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, June 2, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
To Draw, or to Calculate: Aristarchus's Problem and the Computational Practices of Greek Astronomy
Ido Yavetz
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech
Assistant Professor, The Cohn Institute for History of Science, Tel Aviv University

Monday, June 5, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Wonderment for Idiots in Baroque Rome
Ingrid Rowland

Friday, September 15, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Why the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Always Was and Still is a Causal-Explanatory Theory
Jon Hodge
Senior Fellow
Leeds University, Department of Philosophy

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
A Theory of Religion: Linking Individual Beliefs, Rituals, and Social Cohesion
Ronny Razin
Department of Economics

Thursday, September 21, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 2nd Year Presentations
Spontaneous Rational Herding in Markets with Partially Common Values
Jihong Lee
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Optimal Capital and Risk Transfer for Group Diversification
Damir Filipovic
University of Munich, Mathematics Institute

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
A Dual Self Model of Impusle Control
Drew Fudenberg
Professor of Economics
Harvard University

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Terrorist Factions
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
Department of Political Science
Washington University, St. Louis

Friday, October 6, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices (joint with Matthew Rabin)
Georg Weizsacker
Lecturer in Economics
London School of Economics

Friday, October 6, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
The War of Information
Faruk Gul
Professor of Economics
Princeton University

Monday, October 9, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Political Science Practice Job Talk
Voting Blocs, Coalitions and Parties
Jon Eguia
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, October 10, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
How Much Public Money is Wasted, and Why? Evidence From a Change in Procurement Law
Andrea Prat
Department of Economics
London School of Economics

Thursday, October 12, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Practice Job Talk
What Makes a Democrat Vote Like a Republican? Political Networks and Contextual Effects
Betsy Sinclair
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, October 13, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
A Behavioral Model of Discrimination in Spatially Structured Populations
Jacob King
Caltech Undergrad

Friday, October 13, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) - Director, Jean-Marie Straub

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Political Dynasties (joint with Pedro Dal Bo and Jason Snyder)
Ernesto Dal Bo
Haas School of Business
UC Berkeley

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Pre-electoral Debate: The Case of a Large Election
(joint with Andrew Rice)
Sophie Bade
Assistant Professor of Economics
Penn State University

Monday, October 23, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Uncovered Power: External Agenda Setting, Sophisticated Voting, and Transnational Lobbying
Silvia Console Battilana
Stanford University

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Information Disclosure in Mechanism Design (joint with Balazs Szentes)
Peter Eso
Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Northwestern University (Kellogg)

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Lippard in Part(s): THE QUAKER CITY and the Public
Christopher Looby
Professor of English
UCLA

Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Political Strength and Economic Efficiency in a Multi-Agent State
Alexandre Debs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friday, October 27, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Transport Improvements, Agglomeration Economies and City Productivity: Did Commuter Trains Raise Nineteenth Century British Wages
Timothy Leunig
Department of Economic History
London School of Economics

Monday, October 30, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Satisfaction in Choice as a Function of the Number of Alternatives: When "Goods Satiate" but "Bads Escalate"
Elena Reutskaja
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Monday, October 30, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Practice Job Talk
Education Finance Reform and Public School Expenditures
Sarah Hill
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Political Cycle in Water Provision in Mexico
Nicola Persico
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, November 3, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Status, ethnicity, and wealth in Vietnam: Evidence from Experimental Games
Tomomi Tanaka
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics
Caltech

Monday, November 6, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
How Consumers Respond to Incentives
Daniel McFadden
E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Do Voters Vote Sincerely?
Antonio Merlo
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Self-control Through Second-Order Preferences
Klaus Nehring
University of California at Davis

Friday, November 10, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
The eBay Market as Sequential Second Price Auctions--Theory and Experiments
Joseph Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics
Caltech

Friday, November 10, 2006
5:00 pm (note later start time), Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
P. Kyle Stanford
Associate Professor of Logic & Philosophy of Science
University of California, Irvine

Friday, November 10, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Go for Zucker (2005) - Dani Levy, Director

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda
Alessandra Casella
Department of Economics
Columbia University

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Pricing in Matching Markets
Andrew Postlewaite
Professor of Economics
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, November 17, 2006
Noon, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Decision Theory Applied to a Linear Panel Data Model
Marcelo J. Moreira
Economics Department
Harvard University

Friday, November 17, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Addictions as Habits
Timothy Schroeder
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
The Ohio State University

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Parental Guidance and Supervised Learning
Alessandro Lizzeri
Department of Economics
New York University

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
'Workin' on the Chain Gang': Walter Mosley's Message to
White Middle-Class America
Cecelia Tichi
Visiting Professor of English, Caltech
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, Vanderbilt University

Friday, December 1, 2006
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Good Bye Lenin (2003) - Wolfgang Becker, Director

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Logic of Gamson's Law: Pre- election Coalitions and Portfolio Allocations
Gary Cox
Department of Political Science
UC San Diego

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Neural Basis of Financial Risk-Taking
Camelia Kuhnen
Assistant Professor of Finance
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Why Did Europe Conquer The World? How Politics and Economics Created a Comparative Advantage in Violence
Philip T. Hoffman
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science
Caltech

Friday, December 8, 2006
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Isaac Newton on Mathematical Method and Certainty
Niccolo Guicciardini
Mellon Visiting Professor of History of Science, Caltech
Associate Professor of History of Science, University of Siena

Friday, December 8, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Information-Based Trade
Hulya Eraslan
Gilbert and Shelley Harrison Term Assistant Professor of Finance
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Monday, December 11, 2006
Noon, 128 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Executing Complex Cognitive Tasks: Prizes vs. Markets
Debrah Meloso
Graduate Student
Caltech

Monday, December 11, 2006
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure
Jonathan Berk
Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance & Accounting, Haas Finance Group
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday, January 9, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Structural Estimation of High Dimensional Factor Models: Uncovering the Effect of Global Factors on the US Economy
Matthew C. Harding
PhD Candidate, Department of Economics
MIT

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
The Rotten Firm Theorem
Daniel Benjamin
Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Thursday, January 11, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Value Based Decision Making: Using Rich Behavioral Models to Explore Neural Function
Leo Sugrue
Graduate Student
Stanford University,
HHMI and Department of Neurobiology

Friday, January 12, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Population Sustainability of Social and Economic
Networks
Bong Chan Koh
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, January 12, 2007
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Avenue
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Useful Knowledge: On the History of the Concept of Science for the Common Good From Bacon to Mill
Rose-Mary Sargent
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech
Professor of Philosophy, Merrimack College

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Strategic Foundations of Prediction Markets and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Ricardo Serrano-Padial
UC San Diego
Department of Economics

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Economics of Patent Pools When Some (But Not All) Patents are Essential
Daniel Quint
Graduate Student (PhD candidate)
Stanford University
Department of Economics

Thursday, January 18, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Practice Job Talk
Patterns of Information Avoidance in Binary Choice Dictator Games
Lauren Feiler
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, January 19, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Measures of Contiguity and Compactness
Alan Miller
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, January 19, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
A Historiographic Study of the Diagrams in the Greek, Arabic and Latin Texts of Aristarchus' 'On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon'
Nathan Sidoli

Monday, January 22, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
The Disunity and Unity of Descartes' Science
Zvi Biener
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Pittsburgh

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Marginal Contributions and Externalities in the Value
Geoffroy de Clippel
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Rice University

Thursday, January 25, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Interactive Dynamics of Striato-Cortical Circuits in Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making: Computational Models and Empirical Tests Thereof
Michael Frank
Assistant Professor
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology

Friday, January 26, 2007
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Heinrich Hertz's Road to the Principles of Mechanics
Jesper Lutzen
Visiting Professor of History, Caltech
Professor of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen

Friday, January 26, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
A Constrained Coalitional Approach to Price Formation
Martin Byford
Ph.D. Candidate
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

Monday, January 29, 2007
Noon, 128 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
A Market for Managers
Guido Maretto
Graduate Student
Caltech

Monday, January 29, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Philosophy Needs Medicine: Historiography, Descartes, and Other Minds Skepticism
Gideon Manning
Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department
The College of William and Mary

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Dilation Bootstrap: A Natural Approach to Inference in Incomplete Models
Alfred Galichon
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University, Department of Economics

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Fine Tuning Problems and Early Universe Cosmology
Christopher Smeenk
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
UCLA

Thursday, February 1, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Partial Identification of Counterfactual Choice Probabilities
Charles F. Manski
Department of Economics
Northwestern University

Thursday, February 1, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
'The Unity of Time's Measure':Kant's Reply to Locke
Katherine Dunlop
Humanities Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy
Stanford University

Friday, February 2, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
Whither Kepler? Planetary Theory in the 17th Century
James Voelkel

Friday, February 2, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Pricing and Hedging Volatility Risk in Fixed Income Markets
Scott Joslin
Ph. D. Candidate
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Friday, February 2, 2007
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Carnival in Switzerland - A World Upside Down
Albert Gasser
Peter Tokofsky

Monday, February 5, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Selling to Overconfident Consumers
Michael Grubb
Ph.D. Candidate
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Thursday, February 8, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Neuronal Encoding of Economic Value
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa
Research Fellow in Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology

Friday, February 9, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Humanities Job Candidate
Origins and Transmutations: Chemists and Chemistry at the Start of the Eighteenth Century
Lawrence M. Principe

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection and Seller Revelation on eBay Motors
Gregory Lewis
Department of Economics
University of Michigan

Thursday, February 15, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Causal Efficacy & the Curse of Dimensionality
Maxwell B. Stinchcombe
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
Visiting Professor of Economics, Caltech

Friday, February 16, 2007
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Modeling in Synthetic Biology
Andrea Loettgers
Senior PostdoctoralSscholar in the Center for Biological Circuitry Design
Caltech

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
4:00 pm, Sharp Lecture Hall, 155 Arms Laboratory
Science Writing Symposium
Words Matter Program
Robert Lee Hotz, LA Times; Richard Murray Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems, Caltech; and Michael Shermer, Executive Director, Skeptics Society; columnist, Scientific American

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Learning Through Patterns
Marcin Peski
University of Chicago

Friday, February 23, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Becoming African in America
James Sidbury
Associate Professor, Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin

Tuesday, February 27, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Complexion and Classification: Narratives of Skin Color in Historical Sources
Martha Hodes
Associate Professor of History
New York University

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Asset Bubbles without Dividends: An Experiment
Joerg Oechssler
Department of Economics
University of Heidelberg

Thursday, March 1, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Estimating Price Elasticities in Differentiated Product Demand Models with Endogenous Characteristics
Daniel Ackerberg
Associate Professor
UCLA, Department of Economics

Friday, March 2, 2007
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Die Architekten (The Architects), 1990
Peter Kahane

Monday, March 5, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Information Markets, Moral Hazard, and Equilibrium Selection
Anthony Kwasnica
Assistant Professor of Business Economics
Pennsylvania State University

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Efficient Information Aggregation with Costly Voting
John Morgan
Haas School of Business and Department of Economics
UC Berkeley

Thursday, March 8, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Semi-optimal Models of Learned Decision Making
Nathaniel Daw
Assistant professor
Center for Neural Science, New York University

Friday, March 9, 2007
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
New Developments in Mathematics in Post War USA: Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, and the impact of WW II
Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen
Visiting Associate in History, Caltech
Associate Professor, Roskilde University

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Brain Correlates of Deception and Suspicion in Cheap Talk Bargaining
Meghana Bhatt
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Market Mechanisms for Agent Coordination
Sven Koenig
University of Southern California

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Conditional Commitments
Ehud Kalai
James J. O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences and Professor of Mathematics
MEDS, Northwestern University

Thursday, March 15, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Moment Inequalities and Their Application
Ariel Pakes
Department of Economics
Harvard University

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Regret Aversion and Opportunity Dependence
Takashi Hayashi
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 30, 2007
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Visualizing the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
Volker Remmert
University of Mainz

Tuesday, April 3, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Analyzing Voting Data from Small Deliberative Bodies
Simon Jackman
Department of Political Science
Stanford University

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Asymmetric Auctions with Resale ( joint with Isa Hafalir)
Vijay Krishna
Professor of Economics
Pennsylvania State University

Friday, April 6, 2007
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Experimental Natural Philosophy and the Workings of the Mind
Richard Serjeantson
Mellon Visiting Associate Professor of History, Caltech
Lecturer in History, Trinity College, Cambridge

Monday, April 9, 2007
Noon, 128 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Why Cognitive Biases May Not Always Affect Asset Prices
(joint with Elena Asparouhova, Peter Bossaerts, William Zame)
Jon Eguia
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Asymmetric English Auctions Revisited
Juan Dubra
Visiting Associate Professor, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Professor, Universidad de Montevideo

Thursday, April 12, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Parietal-frontal Circuits for Decision Making
Richard Andersen
James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience
Caltech

Friday, April 13, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
American Transportation Politics in the Twentieth Century
Mark H. Rose
Department of History
Florida Atlantic University

Monday, April 16, 2007
Noon, 128 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Electricity Capacity Markets
David Young
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competitive Redistricting (joint with Faruk Gul)
Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Department of Economics
Princeton University

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Admissibility in Games
Amanda Friedenberg
Washington University, St. Louis

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
4:00 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium
William and Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lecture in Science and Civilization
Watson, Crick and the Mushroom Cloud
Soraya de Chadarevian
Department of History and the New Center for Society and Genetics
UCLA

Friday, April 20, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Networks and Market Makers in the First Emerging Market: Bank of England Shares, London 1720
Larry Neal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
London School of Economics and NBER

Friday, April 20, 2007
7:45 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Klassezamekunft - Class Reunion
Walo Deuber

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
William Jennings Bryan's Revenge: The Transformation of the Republican and Democratic Party Coalitions in the United States
Norman Schofield
Washington University, St. Louis

Thursday, April 26, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Identification and Estimation of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models without Additivity
Whitney Newey
Department of Economics
MIT

Friday, April 27, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Acknowledging the Unthinkable: Returning the Domestic Slave Trade to Its Central Role in the History of the United States
Steven Deyle
Associate Professor, Department of History
University of Houston

Monday, April 30, 2007
Noon, 128 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Data Categorization in Machine Learning
Amrit Pratap
Graduate Student
Computer Science, Caltech

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Citizens' Assembly Model
John Ferejohn
Department of Political Science
Stanford University

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Partially Specified Equilibrium
Ehud Lehrer
Professor of Mathematics
Tel Aviv University

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Intervention and Causal Inference in Rats
Aaron Blaisdell
UCLA Department of Psychology & UCLA Brain Research Institute

Friday, May 11, 2007
9:30 am - 5:30pm, 25 Baxter
Caltech Mini-Conference on Social Networks
May 11-12, 2007
Caltech Mini-Conference on Social Networks
Various Speakers

Monday, May 14, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
William and Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lecture in Science and Civilization
Robert Hooke in the Round: Ingenious Scientist, Newton's Nemesis, and a Most Disastrous Clerk
Lisa Jardine
Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Comparative Judicial Politics
Frances Rosenbluth
Department of Political Science
Yale University

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Do Stochastic Games Have "Reputational Values" ?
David Pearce
Professor of Economics
New York University

Friday, May 18, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
What Shaquille O'Neal Could Teach Anthony Downs:
Boxing Out in Multicandidate Elections
Morgan Llewellyn
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, May 18, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Literature and Visualization
Walo Deuber
Director

Friday, May 18, 2007
7:45 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Remembering Anna (Ricordare Anna), 2005
Walo Deuber

Monday, May 21, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Inventory and Adverse Selection Effects in a Limit Order Market
Michael Alton
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Wise Crowds or Wise Minorities? An Experimental Investigation
Christoph Brunner
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Interim Efficient Mechanism Design with Interdependent Valuations
Serkan Kucuksenel
Graduate Student
Caltech

Thursday, May 24, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Understanding without Explanation?
Peter Lipton
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge

Friday, May 25, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Learning the Dynamics in Stochastic Non Linear Ecological Models
Sharon I. O'Donnell
Instructor
Urban Economics, Baylor College of Medicine

Friday, May 25, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Detecting Regime Shifts
Min Jeong Kang
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Con-Men's Trick: Money in Complete Markets with Heterogeneous Beliefs
Ji Lee
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, June 1, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Coordination Games and Market Power
Noah Myung
Graduate Student
Caltech

Monday, June 4, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
A Model of the "Reasonable Man"
Alan Miller
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Expected Information (EI): An Environment Sensitive Measure for Information Mechanisms
Sera Linardi
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Partition-Dependence in Lab and Field Experiments and Field Markets
Colin F. Camerer
Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics
Caltech

Monday, June 11, 2007
Noon, 128 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Personal Influence: Social Context and Political Competition
Andrea Mattozzi
Assistant Professor of Economics
Caltech

Monday, June 25, 2007
Noon, 128 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Two Problems of Search
R. Preston McAfee
J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management
Caltech

Friday, June 29, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Limbo: Taking a Large-Scale Guessing Game to the Laboratory
Joseph Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics
Caltech

Monday, July 2, 2007
Noon, 128 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
The Impact of Changes in Federal Reserve Policy on Bond Yields
Mark B. Wise
John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics
Caltech, PMA

Monday, September 24, 2007
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Second Best Efficiency in Auctions (joint work with Angel Hernando-Veciana, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Fabio Michelucci
Visitor in Economics
Caltech

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Social Incentives in the Workplace (joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Imran Rasul (UCL))
Iwan Barankay
Associate Professor
University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Monday, October 1, 2007
Noon, 237 Bax
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Valuing Generic Entry into the Pharmaceutical Industry
Laura Panattoni
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar / Social Science Seminar
Evolving a moral faculty: domain-specificity, neural specialization, and universality
Marc D. Hauser
Harvard University

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
9:00 am, Treasure Room, Dabney
Lecture ("chalk talk")
The Evolution of the Language Faculty
Marc D. Hauser
Harvard University

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Relational Contracts with On-the-Job Search
Simon Board
Assistant Professor of Economics
UCLA

Monday, October 8, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Ideology or What? Legislative Behavior in Multiparty Presidential Settings
Cesar Zucco
Department of Political Science
Princeton University

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Who Abstains in Equilibrium?
Santiago Oliveros
Haas School of Business
U.C. Berkeley

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Two Concepts of Scientific Philosophy: Carnap and Reichenbach
Andre Carus
Affiliate Lecturer
University of Cambridge

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Government Spending
Erik Snowberg
Stanford University

Thursday, October 11, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
An Experimental Study of Detecting Regime Shifts
Min Jeong Kang
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, October 12, 2007
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
When Does the Future Really Start? (Non-monotonic time preference)
Kan Takeuchi
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics
Caltech

Friday, October 12, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Multiscale magnetic resonance imaging: New tools for identifying connectivity in the mammalian brain
J. Michael Tyszka
Director, Magnetic Resonance Physics
Caltech

Monday, October 15, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Learning and Visceral Temptation in Dynamic Savings Experiments
Alexander L. Brown
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Dynamics in an Evolving Partnership
David McAdams
Associate Professor
MIT Sloan

Friday, October 19, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Estimating Auction Models with Unknown Number of Bidders: A Misclassification Approach (joint w/ Yingyao Hu, Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Matthew Shum
Associate Professor
John Hopkins University

Monday, October 22, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Schelling Redux: An Evolutionary Dynamic Model of Residential Segregation
William H. Sandholm
Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin

Monday, October 22, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Endogenous Enforcement & Jurisdiction in International Adjudication
Leslie Johns
Department of Political Science
New York University

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians)
Gary King
Department of Government
Harvard University

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Conscience, Rights, and the 'Delirium of Democracy': Charles Brockden Brown's Inalienable Alien
Nancy Ruttenburg
Professor of Comparative Literature
New York University

Friday, October 26, 2007
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
In July (2000)
Fatih Akin
Writer and Director

Monday, October 29, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Categorization & the Psychology of Political Behavior
Nathan Collins
Department of Political Science
Stanford University

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization?
Nolan McCarty
Department of Political Science
Princeton University

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
A Unique Costly Contemplation Representation (joint with Haluk Ergin)
Todd Sarver
Assistant Professor of Economics
Northwestern University

Friday, November 2, 2007
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Vertical and Horizontal Differentiation with Entry under Alternative Electoral Systems( joint with Andrea Mattozzi)
Matias Iaryczower
Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science
Caltech

Monday, November 5, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar
Supermodular Bayesian Implementation: Learning and Incentive Design
Laurent Mathevet
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter (please note time change)
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Interpreted and Generated Signals
Scott Page
Department of Political Science and Economics
University of Michigan

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness/Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective
Luis Rayo
Associate Professor of Economics
The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
8:00 pm, Beckman Auditorium
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Issac Newton, Solomon's Kingdom, and the Origins of Civilization
Jed Z. Buchwald
Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History
Caltech

Thursday, November 8, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Endogeneity and Discrete Outcomes
Andrew Chesher
Professor of Economics
University College London

Friday, November 9, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
The Specter of the Telescope: Radical Instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke
Ofer Gal
University of Sydney

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Sustainable Reputations under Finite Memory
Andrea Wilson
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
New York University

Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Opportunity Costs and Response Rates: How Dopamine Helps us Choose How Hard to Work
Yael Niv
Princeton University

Friday, November 16, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Delegation of Social Behavior
Roberto A. Weber
Associate Professor of Economics & Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University

Monday, November 19, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Presentations
Contracts with Aftermarkets
Guido Maretto
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Rationalizable Voting
Tasos Kalandrakis
Department of Political Science
University of Rochester

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
The Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust
Steven Tadelis
Associate Professor
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Monday, November 26, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Many-to-One Matching with Complementarities and Peer Effects
Marek Pycia
Assistant Professor of Economics
Penn State University

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning
H. Peyton Young
James Meade Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Professor of Economics Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Archipelagic Macbeth
John Kerrigan
Professor of English
University of Cambridge

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement
Jerry Green
John Leverett Professor and David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
Harvard Business School

Thursday, November 29, 2007
4:00 pm, 201 E. Bridge
Harris Lecture joint with Physics (Physics Research Conference )
The Threat to the Planet: Dark and Bright Sides of Global Warming
James Hansen
NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Friday, November 30, 2007
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Credit Risk with Incomplete Information: Pricing, Experiments, and the Ideal Model
Agostino Capponi
Graduate Student
Caltech, Computer Science

Friday, November 30, 2007
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
The Tunnel (2001)
Roland Suso Richter

Monday, December 3, 2007
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Moral Hazard and Platform Reputation in Two-Sided Market Transactions
Guillaume Roger
Ph.D. Candidate
USC, Department of Economics

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Noon, 25 Baxter
Graduate Students - 3rd Year Representation
Money as a Rational Bubble in Economies with Short-Sale
Constraints
Jihong Lee
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Distributive and Ideological Policies in the U.S. House
Barry Weingast
Department of Political Science
Stanford University

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Uncertainty in Mechanism Design (with G. Lopomo and L. Rigotti)
Chris Shannon
Professor of Economics and Mathematics
UC Berkeley

Monday, December 10, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Volunteers and Reputation Signaling in the Lab and Field
Sera Linardi
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Practice Job Talk
Supermodular Bayesian Implementation: Learning
and Incentive Design
Laurent Mathevet
Graduate Student
Caltech

Monday, December 17, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Practice Job Talk
Learning and Visceral Temptation in Dynamic Savings Experiments
Alexander L. Brown
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th
Amendment and Representation in the U.S. Senate
Sean Gailmard
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, December 20, 2007
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Practice Job Talk
Endogneous Investment and Pricing Under Uncertainty
David Young
Graduate Student
Caltech

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Putting on the Brakes: The Neural Basis of Response Inhibition
Russell Poldrack
UCLA

Friday, January 11, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Scheduling for today's systems: Bridging theory and practice
Adam Wierman
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, EAS
Caltech

Friday, January 11, 2008
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
Marx, Mao, and Mathematics
Joseph Dauben
City University of New York

Monday, January 14, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Procedural Analysis of Choice Rules with Applications to Bounded Rationality
Yuval Salant
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Rent Seeking Behavior and Optimal Taxation of Pollution in Shallow Lakes
Stuart McDonald
Postdoctoral Scholar, Information Science & Technology
Caltech

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Group Strategy-Proof Cost Sharing
Ruben Juarez
Rice University

Thursday, January 17, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Turnover and Accountability of Appointed and Elected Judges
Claire Lim
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, January 18, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
A Behavioral Model for Mechanism Design: Individual Evolutionary Learning (with Jasmina Arifovic, Simon Fraser University)
John O. Ledyard
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences
Caltech

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling
Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum
Visiting Associates in Economics, Caltech
Vanderbilt University

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Voice and Text in Medieval Lyric
Seth Lerer
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Stanford University

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Market Interactions and Market Outcomes: A Choice-Based Approach (joint with Flavio M. Menezes)
John Quiggin
University of Queensland

Thursday, January 24, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Bounds on the Counterfactual Distribution of Revenues in Auctions with Reserve Prices
Xun Tang
Northwestern University

Friday, January 25, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Time Evolution of the Mutual Fund Size Distribution
Yonathan Schwarzkopf
Graduate Student, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Caltech

Friday, January 25, 2008
4:00 pm, Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
The Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish
Marshall Cohen
Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus
Caltech

Monday, January 28, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Voting and Experimentation
Bruno Strulovici
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Oxford University

Thursday, January 31, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Practice Job Talk
"Paragraph IV"' Litigation and the Value of Marketing Exclusivity in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Laura Panattoni
Graduate Student
Caltech

Friday, February 1, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Social Design: A New Approach to Search, Advertising and Recommendations
Yury M. Lifshits
Postdoctoral Scholar, CMI, EAS
Caltech

Friday, February 1, 2008
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Fallen (Austria 2006)
Barbara Albert
Written and Directed

Monday, February 4, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices
Matthew Rabin
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech
Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics

Thursday, February 7, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate
Neural Mechanisms for Choosing Between Immediate and Delayed Rewards
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED - Joseph W. Kable
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Neural Science, New York University

Monday, February 11, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Improving Coordination and Cooperation Through Competition
Noah Myung
Graduate Student
Caltech

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
7:30 pm, Dabney Lounge
Words Matter
Fiction writer Simi Bedford will read from and discuss her new novel, Not With Silver, published by Chatto & Windus, Fall of 2007
Simi Bedford

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
4:00 pm, 74 Jorgensen
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student/COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR
(joint with Engineering and Applied Science)
Computing Equilibria in Games
Constantinos Daskalakis
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

Friday, February 15, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Application Choices and College Rankings
Yuanchuan Lien
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics, HSS
Caltech

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student
Can Simple Markets Achieve Good Results?
Liad Blumrosen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Microsoft Research

Friday, February 22, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Characterizing Mechanism Design Over Discrete Domains
Ahuva Mu'Alem
Postdoctoral Scholar in SISL, EAS
Caltech

Monday, February 25, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Unscheduled Appointments
Alan Miller
Graduate Student
Caltech

Thursday, February 28, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Fall of the Roman Empire: Natural Scientific Approaches
Michael McCormick
Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History
Harvard University

Friday, February 29, 2008
8:00 am, 25 Baxter
Caltech Matching Conference: Theory, Experiments and Econometrics
SISL Mini-Conference on Matching
Various Speakers

Friday, February 29, 2008
4:00 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium
Science Writing Symposium
Words Matter Program
Jean-Lou Chameau, President, Caltech
Usha Lee McFarling, award-winning science journalist

Friday, February 29, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Three Applications of Means-Ends Epistemology
Oliver Schulte
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Friday, February 29, 2008
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
The Ninth Day (Germany 2004)
A Film by Volker Schloendorff

Thursday, March 6, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Statistical Treatment Choice Based on Asymmetric Minimax Regret Criteria
Aleksey Tetenov
Department of Economics
Northwestern University

Friday, March 7, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Credit Risk and Filtering: Theory and Computation
Agostino Capponi
Graduate Student, Computer Science, EAS
Caltech

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Congressional Rents
James Snyder
Professor, Department of Economics
MIT

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
Film Screening
Dark Matter
Chen Shi-Zheng, Director and Janet Yang, Producer

Monday, March 17, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
Recall Errors in Surveys
Stefan Hoderlein
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech
University of Mannheim

Thursday, March 20, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Empathy: A Neurophenomenological Approach
Evan Thompson
Professor of Philosophy
University of Toronto

Monday, March 24, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Computer Science and Mechanism Design: Two Case Studies
Vincent Conitzer
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Economics
Duke University

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Pivots Versus Signals in Elections
Adam Meirowitz
Department of Economics
Harvard University

Monday, March 31, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Brown Bag Seminar
The Neuroeconomics of Simple Consumer Decision-Making
Hilke Plassmann
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics
Caltech

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Statute Law or Case Law?
Leonardo Felli
Department of Economics
London School of Economics

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Absolute Ambiguity Aversion and Mean-Dispersion Preferences (joint with Simon Grant)
Benjamin Polak
Professor of Economics
Yale University

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Pistols! Treason! Murder!: A Multimedia Assassination
Jonathan Walker
International Research Fellow
University of Sydney, History Department

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force
Participation over a Century
Raquel Fernandez
Department of Economics
New York University

Thursday, April 10, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Single Unit Studies of Intertemporal Choice
Paul Glimcher
Professor of Neural Science, Economics and Psychology
Center for Neural Science, New York University

Friday, April 11, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Pricing in the Presence of Peering (joint work with Eui Woong Lee, et al.)
Lachlan Andrew
Senior Research Engineer, Computer Science
Caltech

Friday, April 11, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Electrolysis Before the Modern Ionic Theory: Underdetermination, Closure, and Pluralism
Hasok Chang
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University College London

Monday, April 14, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Scope of Cooperation: Values and Incentives
Guido Tabellini
Department of Economics
Bocconi University

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Vector Expected Utility: Theory and Applications
Marciano Siniscalchi
Associate Professor of Economics
Northwestern University

Friday, April 18, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
On Consistency in the Random Assignment Problem
Hatice Ozsoy
Postdoctoral Scholar in Social and Information Sciences Lab, Electrical Engineering
Caltech

Friday, April 18, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Moral Intuitions as Heuristics
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Professor of Philosophy
Dartmouth College

Friday, April 18, 2008
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Dunki-Schott - "Don Quixote" (1986)
Tobias Wyss
Director

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Noon, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Social Frame and Social Image
Tore Ellingsen
Ragnar Soderberg Professor of Economics
Stockholm School of Economics

Friday, April 25, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Distributed Welfare Games
Jason Marden
Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering
Caltech

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Gender Based Taxation
Alberto Alesina
Department of Economics
Harvard University

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
On the Existence of Monotone Pure Strategy Equilibria in Bayesian Games
Philip Reny
University of Chicago

Friday, May 2, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Randomness and Pseudorandomness: The Computational Perspective
Christopher M. Umans
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Science
Caltech

Monday, May 5, 2008
4:00 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium
William and Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lecture in Science and Civilization
Commemorating Darwin: 1809, 1859, 2009
Janet Browne
Aramont Professor of the History of Science
Harvard University

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Peace Agreements Without Commitment
Luis Corchon
Universidad Carlos III

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
American Pastorals: Philip Roth and the Mid-Century Discourse of Happiness
Mary Esteve
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor, Department of English, Concordia University

Thursday, May 8, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Brain, Mind and Society Seminar
Dissociation of Neural Signals Related to Expected and Unexpected Reward in Orbitofrontal Cortex, Basolateral Amygdala and Midbrain Dopamine Neurons
Matthew Roesch
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Friday, May 9, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
A Computer Science View of Nondeterminism and Games
K. Mani Chandy
Simon Ramo Professor and Professor of Computer Science
Caltech

Friday, May 9, 2008
4:00 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
James Schwartz

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Distributive Politics with Primaries
Michael Ting
Department of Political Science
Columbia University

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Sharing the Cost of a Capacity Network
Herve Moulin
George A. Peterkin Professor of Economics
Rice University

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Grace Nicholson: Pasadena's Merchant Princess
Kathleen Peck
independent Scholar, Reader at the Huntington Library

Friday, May 16, 2008
Noon, 237 Baxter
SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
The Case for Quantum Probability
Eran Shmaya
Postdoctoral Scholar, SISL
Caltech

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
Definable and Contractible Contracts
Balazs Szentes
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Chicago

Thursday, May 22, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Nonlinear Pricing in Yellow Pages
Quang Vuong

Thursday, May 22, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Origins of Morality - Empathy, Rules and Causal Reasoning
Alison Gopnik
Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley

Friday, May 23, 2008
7:30 pm, Baxter Lecture Hall
German Film Series
(All films in German with English language subtitles)
Corn in Parliament (2004), Dir.: Jean-Stephan Bron
Tobias Wyss
Director, Visiting Professor, CSULB

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:00 pm, 25 Baxter
Bray Theory Workshop
The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games:
Experimental Evidence
Guillaume Frechette
Assistant Professor
New York University

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:00 pm, Treasure Room, Dabney
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Transatlantic Islam: Carlyle, Emerson, Irving
Wai Chee Dimock
William Lampson Professor of