Calendar

Monday, November 9, 2009

Monday, November 9th, 2009

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Baxter B125

Exploratory Behavior During A Financial Forecasting Task Points To Simulated Annealing

Peter Bossaerts, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management and Professor of Finance, Caltech,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Broad 100

Multiple Forms of Valuation in the Human Brain

Klaus Wunderlich, graduate student in computation and neural systems, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

What Robotics and Control May Yet Learn from the Brain

Jean-Jacques Slotine, professor of mechanical engineering and information science, MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Baxter B125

Do Natural Resouces Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse

Stephen Haber, professor of political science, Stanford University,