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Fall 2019-2020
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Experts and Financial Ties: Evidence from FDA Advisory Committees
Fanny Camara,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of Research (Economics),
Dornsife, College of Leters, Arts and Science,
USC,
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Structural Model of a Multitasking Salesforce: Job Task Allocation and Incentive Plan Design
Kosuke Uetake,
Associate Professor of Marketing,
School of Management,
Yale University,
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Conflicting Priorities: A Theory of Covenants and Collateral
Giorgia Piacentino,
Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business,
Columbia Business School,
Columbia University,
Friday, November 15th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Transparency and Demand Management in Platforms for Networked Markets
Adam Wierman,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology,
Caltech,
Monday, November 18th, 2019
10:30am
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11:30am
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Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Otters and Others: Ted Hughes to Alice Oswald
John Kerrigan,
Professor of English,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Acquisition of/Stochastic Evidence
Barton Lipman,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Boston University,
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Two experiments on time preferences and repeated game
Jeongbin Kim,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Simon Says: How Norton Simon transformed a failing art museum into a cultural powerhouse
Andrea Thabet,
Lecturer in American History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Equitable Voting Rules
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Kernel Estimation for Dyadic Data
James Powell,
George Break and Helen Schnacke Break Distinguished Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Heads of the Colored People
Nafissa Thompson-Spires,
American Author and Associate Professor of English at Cornell University,
- Public Event
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Spiritual Mobilization: Re-selling market fundamentalism to America's clergy during the New Deal
Erik M. Conway,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Who Gets Placed Where and Why? An Empirical Framework for Foster Care Placement
Alejandro Robinson-Cortés,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been postponed to Thursday, January 9, 2020.
Vadim V. Martynov,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, December 6th, 2019
11:00am
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3:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film Screening: Three Penny Opera
Film screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
Brian Knight,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Bundled Payments
Liran Einav,
Professor of Economics,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 12th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Decision weights based on visual salience
Devdeepta Bose,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychology and Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions
Jessica A. Wachter,
Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, Professor of Finance,
Wharton School of Business,
University of Pennsylvania,
- Public Event
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, December 13th, 2019
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"The Ins and Outs of Hippocampal Replay"
David Foster,
Associate Professor,
Psychology,
UC Berkeley,