Calendar
Fall 2019-2020
Thursday, September 5th, 2019
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, September 26th, 2019
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Persuasive Images in Early Modern Scientific Books
Sachiko Kusukawa,
Professor of History of Science,
University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Getting Settled in Your New Home: The Costs of Moving on Voter Turnout
Seo-young Silvia Kim,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 4th, 2019
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Walter Gonzalez,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Luis Sanchez,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Immortality Projects: Science and Art of Being Ephemeral
Natalie Andrew,
Professional Biologist and Visual Artist,
Brian Knep,
Media Artist,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Bridge Too Far?: Examining Bridging Assumptions in Common-Space Estimations
Jeffery A. Jenkins,
Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law,
Sol Price School of Public Policy,
USC,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Designing Research for Practical Social Innovation
Sera Linardi,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
Giovanni Compiani,
Assistant Professor,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Policy Announcement Design
Semyon Malamud,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Swiss Finance Institute,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Nothing is real, but thank God it's epistemic
Mario Hubert,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 11th, 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
Dynamic Information Design with Diminishing Sensitivity Over News
Kevin He,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
How Green Was My Night Soil
David Howell,
Professor of Japanese History and Chair,
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Information acquisition and strategic investment timing
Erik Madsen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Strategy and Technology of Conflict
Sandeep Baliga,
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences,
Northwestern University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
The Airing of Grievances: Are the Humanities Bullshit?
Gabriel Rosenberg,
Assistant Professor in Women's Studies,
Duke University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 18th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies
Federico Echenique,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Fast, "Robust", and Approximately Correct: Estimating Mixed Demand Systems
Bernard Salanie,
Professor and Chair,
Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Contestation and Representation: Community, Conflict, and History in Los Angeles
Lizeth Ramirez,
Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures,
UCLA,
Dalena Sanderson-Hunter,
Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures,
UCLA,
Devin Fitzgerald,
Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing,
UCLA,
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Steady-State Equilibria in Anonymous Repeated Games
Alex Wolitzky,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Heterogeneity and Asset Prices: A Different Approach
Stavros Panageas,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Anderson School of Management,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Understanding "why": The role of causality in cognition
Tobias Gerstenberg,
Assistant Professor in Psychology,
Stanford University,
Friday, October 25th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Common-Value versus Common-Probability Auctions
Kathleen Ngangoue,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics and Center for Experimental Social Science,
New York University,
Monday, October 28th, 2019
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Jupiter
Candice Hansen-Koharcheck,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Sequential Decision Making in the U.S. Supreme Court
Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Affirmative Action in India
Bumin Yenmez,
Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure),
Boston College,
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Financial Education and Access to Savings Accounts: Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from Ugandan Youth Clubs
Julian Jamison,
Professor of Economics and Director of Research (Economics),
Business School,
University of Exeter,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 1st, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELED | Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
This seminar has been rescheduled for Friday, February 28.
Jian Cao,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Data Science and Election Integrity,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Transforming the Italian Landscape in the Middle Ages: Humans, Climate, and the Environment
Ned Schoolman,
Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
University of Nevada, Reno,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film Screening: Frantz
Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German and French with English subtitles
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Fallacy of Calibrationism
Yoaav Isaacs,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Baylor University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Test design under falsification
Vasiliki Skreta,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Texas at Austin,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Mistakes and Overconfidence in Detecting Lies
Marta Serra-Garcia,
Assistant Professor of Economics & Strategic Management,
Rady School of Management,
UC San Diego,
Friday, November 8th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
What matters in tie-breaking rules? How competition guides design
Afshin Nikzad,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
An Ordinary Arab Ship, and Its Stories of Early Globalism
Geraldine Heng,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Perceval Professor in Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture,
Department of English,
University of Texas at Austin,
Saturday, November 9th, 2019
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Off Campus
Drawing the Invisible 100-Mile U.S. Border
Ed Gomez,
Curator of the MexiCali Biennial; Artist; Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Cal State San Bernardino,
Ian Philabaum,
Program Director, Innovation Law Lab,
Arcela Nunez-Alvarez,
Research Director, National Latino Research Center (NLRC), Cal State San Marcos,
Hillary Mushkin,
Artist and Research Professor of Art and Design,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Monday, November 11th, 2019
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Dr. Roozbeh Kiani,
Assistant Professor,
Neural Science and Psychology,
New York University,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
11:30am
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1:00pm
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