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California Institute of Technology
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HSS Seminars for January 2008

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Russell Poldrack, UCLA
Putting on the Brakes: The Neural Basis of Response Inhibition
Date: Jan 09, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Brain, Mind and Society Seminar

Adam Wierman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, EAS, Caltech
Scheduling for today's systems: Bridging theory and practice
Date: Jan 11, 2008 12:00 PM
Location: 237 Baxter
Series: SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar

Joseph Dauben, City University of New York
Marx, Mao, and Mathematics
Date: Jan 11, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Series: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)

Yuval Salant, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Procedural Analysis of Choice Rules with Applications to Bounded Rationality
Date: Jan 14, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student

Stuart McDonald, Postdoctoral Scholar, Information Science & Technology, Caltech
Rent Seeking Behavior and Optimal Taxation of Pollution in Shallow Lakes
Date: Jan 15, 2008 12:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Brown Bag Seminar

Ruben Juarez, Rice University
Group Strategy-Proof Cost Sharing
Date: Jan 16, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student

Claire Lim, University of Pennsylvania
Turnover and Accountability of Appointed and Elected Judges
Date: Jan 17, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student

John O. Ledyard, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, Caltech
A Behavioral Model for Mechanism Design: Individual Evolutionary Learning (with Jasmina Arifovic, Simon Fraser University)
Date: Jan 18, 2008 12:00 PM
Location: 237 Baxter
Series: SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar

Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum, Visiting Associates in Economics, Caltech, Vanderbilt University
Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling
Date: Jan 22, 2008 12:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Brown Bag Seminar

Seth Lerer, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
Voice and Text in Medieval Lyric
Date: Jan 23, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: Treasure Room, Dabney
Series: William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

John Quiggin, University of Queensland
Market Interactions and Market Outcomes: A Choice-Based Approach (joint with Flavio M. Menezes)
Date: Jan 24, 2008 12:00 PM
Location: 237 Baxter
Series: SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar

Xun Tang, Northwestern University
Bounds on the Counterfactual Distribution of Revenues in Auctions with Reserve Prices
Date: Jan 24, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student

Yonathan Schwarzkopf, Graduate Student, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech
Time Evolution of the Mutual Fund Size Distribution
Date: Jan 25, 2008 12:00 PM
Location: 237 Baxter
Series: SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar

Marshall Cohen, Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, Caltech
The Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish
Date: Jan 25, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Series: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)

Bruno Strulovici, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oxford University
Voting and Experimentation
Date: Jan 28, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Social Science Job Candidate/Grad. Student

Laura Panattoni, Graduate Student, Caltech
"Paragraph IV"' Litigation and the Value of Marketing Exclusivity in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Date: Jan 31, 2008 04:00 PM
Location: 25 Baxter
Series: Practice Job Talk