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Spring 2018-2019
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identifying the Discount Factor in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Jaap Abbring,
Professor of Econometrics,
University of Tilburg,
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Recommendations with Feedback
Gustavo Manso,
Professor of Finance and William A. and Betty H. Hasler Chair in New Enterprise Development,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 8th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Ken Nakayama,
Edgar Pierce Professor Emeritus,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Social Science Seminar for Students
Behavioral Political Economy Experiments
Pedro Dal Bo,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Taka Suegami,
Visitor,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Daw- An Wu,
Lab Manager,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation
Simon Hutteger,
Professor of Philosophy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Informational roles of pre-election polls
Jinhee Jo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Kyung Hee University,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Persuasion Meets Delegation
Anton Kolotilin,
Associate Professor,
UNSW Business School,
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Social Science Seminar for Students
Experiments on Infinitely Repeated Games
Pedro Dal Bo,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 12th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Strategy Choice In The Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma
Pedro Dal Bo,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
Monday, April 15th, 2019
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Ordinary and Extraordinary Germans: Complicity and Resistance during WWII
Jessica Shattuck,
American author,
- Public Event
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Searching for Approval
Ali Hortacsu,
Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Correlated Large Contests
Juuso Välimäki,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Aalto University,
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 19th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing
Jonathan Libgober,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Natural Features: Artists, Architects, and Scientists Imagine Space
Lize Mogel,
Artist and Counter-Cartographer,
Jeff Stuart,
Mission Design & Navigation Systems Engineer,
JPL,
Dilip da Cunha,
Architect and Planner; Co-Director, Risk and Resilience Master in Design Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Adjunct Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University,
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Maps, Monsters, and Natural History in the Age of Exploration
Surekha Davies,
Cultural Historian and InterAmericas Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises
Francesco Trebbi,
Professor of Economics,
Vancouver School of Economics,
University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Optimal Incentives under Moral Hazard: From Theory to Practice
George Georgiadis,
Associate Professor of Strategy,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 26th, 2019
9:00am
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4/27
5:00pm
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Looking Back as We Move Forward: The Past, Present, and Future of the History of Science
A Conference in Honor of Jed Z. Buchwald
11:00am
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, April 29th, 2019
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Visual Culture Program - "Encoded Textiles"
Encoded Textiles: Engineering and Craftwork
Abdoulaye Konaté,
Artist; Founding General Director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédia Balla Fasseké Kouyaté in Bamako, Mali,
Daniela Rosner,
Assistant Professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering and Co-Director of the TAT Lab,
University of Washington,
- Public Event
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States
Milan Svolik,
Professor of Political Science,
Department of Political Science,
Yale University,
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Marlene Cohen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience and Associate Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition,,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Tea Party Movement: Evidence from Nationwide Campaign Finance and Real Estate Transactions
Zhao Li,
PhD Candidate in Political Economics,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
8:00am
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5/4
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German Film: So weit die Füsse tragen
Movie screening for German 130c & 132c // In German with English subtitles
Monday, May 6th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice
Jean-Robert Tyran,
Professor of Economics, Director of the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics, and Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs,
University of Vienna,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Interferon Tournament: Credit Markets and Economies of Honor in the First Age of Biotech
Nicolas Rasmussen,
Professor, Programs in History and Environment & Society,
School of Humanities and Languages,
University of New South Wales,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Political Economy of Discrimination
Torun Dewan,
Professor of Political Science,
London School of Economics & Political Science,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Attention and Selection Effects
Colin Stewart,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto,
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 10th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Intertemporal Consumption With Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis
Songfa Zhong,
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore; 2018-2019 NUS Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,
Monday, May 13th, 2019
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Ivan de Araujo,
Professor,
The Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
A Crash History of Drones
Katherine Chandler,
Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics,
School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been cancelled.
Camilo Garcia-Jimeno,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Causal Simulation
Thomas Icard,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Premodern roots of modern subjectivity
Gabriel Motzkin,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
An Impossibility Theorem for Wealth in Heterogeneous-agent Models with Limited Heterogeneity
Alexis Toda,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC San Diego,