Calendar
Winter 2018-2019
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Sangjin Yoo,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Anupama Lakshaman,
Graduate Student,
Bioengineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 10th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
"Outlier Blindness": Efficient Coding Generates an Inability to Represent Extreme Values
Elise Payzan-LeNestour,
Associate Professor,
School of Banking and Finance,
University of New South Wales, Sydney,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Language-based Games
Joseph Halpern,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Professor, Computer Science Department, Cornell University,
Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 17th, 2019
5:50pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Bank Failures
Chenzi Xu,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Harvard University,
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series
A Broken Promise? The Origin of Post-Cold War NATO Expansion
Mary Sarotte,
Research Associate in Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Associate in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, January 25th, 2019
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Es war einmal in Deutschland
Movie screening for German 130b & 132b // In German with English subtitles
Saturday, January 26th, 2019
8:30am
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5:40pm
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Monday, January 28th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Preferences for the Resolution of Uncertainty and the Timing of Information
Kirby Nielsen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Mechanisms Underlying Complex Behaviors"
Mauro Costa-Mattioli,
Professor,
Neuroscience,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Building Brain Observatories for Large-Scale Cellular Surveys"
Christok Koch,
Chief Scientist & President,
Allen Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Demand Analysis with Many Prices
Whitney Newey,
Ford Professor of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 31st, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
How Do People Choose Between Biased Information Sources? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Sevgi Yuksel,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UC Santa Barbara ,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, February 4th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Family Background and Career Outcomes for Exam Degree Holders in the Qing (1644-1911)
Cameron Campbell,
Professor and Acting Head,
Division of Social Science,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ,
Thursday, February 7th, 2019
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
"Watch Your Back!" Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, and the Gromer Case
Zachary Leader,
Professor of English Literature,
University of Roehampton,
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Yon Jong,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
Dong-Wook Kim,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Seminar
The Legible Image: Translating Pictorial Knowledge in Early Colonial Mexico
Daniela Bleichmar,
Professor of Art History and History and Associate Provost for Faculty and Student Initiatives in the Arts and Humanities,
University of Southern California,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 21st, 2019
11:40am
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1:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, February 22nd, 2019
11:00am
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3:30pm
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Monday, February 25th, 2019
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World
Scott Chimileski,
Microbiologist, Photographer, and Author,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar-CANCELLED
Cancelled
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, February 26th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Do Art and Science Share a Common Foundation?
Landon Ross,
Los Angeles-based Artist,
Scott Chimileski,
Microbiologist, Photographer, and Author,
Harvard Medical School,
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Seminar
The Global Spoliation of German Steel or How Architecture Went Open Source
Peter Christensen,
Assistant Professor of Art History,
University of Rochester,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2019
Monday, March 4th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Seminar
The Forgotten Founder of Quantum Mechanics: The Science and Politics of Physicist Pascual Jordan
Ryan Dahn,
Visiting Scholar,
Department of History and Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Visiting Newton's Atelier Before the "Principia," 1679-1684
Michael Nauenberg,
Professor of Physics, Emeritus,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Estimation of Peer Effects in Endogenous Social Networks: Control Function Approach
Hyungsik Roger Moon,
Professor in Economics,
USC,
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Thomas Jefferson's Networks of Knowledge
Barbara Oberg,
Senior Research Scholar,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Collective Hold-Up
Santiago Oliveros,
Professor of Economics,
University of Essex,