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May 2025
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
12:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
Social and economic inequality
Margherita Comola,
Associate Professor,
Paris School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing
Emmy Waldman,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation
Zhiguo He,
James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500)
Ned Schoolman,
Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chen Institute Seminar: Nachum Ulanovsky
Neuroscience going wild: Neural coding in social groups of bats and in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island
Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky,
Professor of Brain Sciences and Head of the Center for Learning, Memory & Cognition,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Talk
Empirical Analysis of Market Entry with Many Potential Entrants
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Quantifying Inefficiency
Yannai Gonczarowski,
Professor of Economics and of Computer Science,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
From Dust Worlds to Don DeLillo
Jocelyn Holland,
Professor of Comparative Literature,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk
Average Treatment Effects in Exchangeable Random Arrays
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal
Jean-Francois Houde,
Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair,
Department of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Using Organizational Flexibility: Inside the GmbH
Tim Guinnane,
Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
Monday, May 12th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Psychological Principles Underlying Bursty Power-law Activity in Human Behavior
Colin Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models
Shakeeb Khan,
Professor of Economics,
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences,
Boston College,
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Noam Yuchtman,
Drummond Professor of Political Economy,
Department of Economics,
University of Oxford and All Souls College,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Can Storytelling Save The World?
Attica Locke,
Author, Screenwriter, and Producer,
- Public Event
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar (cross-listed with the LCSSP series)
Healthcare AI and Machine Personhood
Sara Gerke,
Associate Professor of Law and Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar,
College of Law,
University of Illinois,
Boris Babic,
Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law,
University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Loss and Damage Today: How Climate Change is Impacting Output and Capital
James Rising,
Assistant Professor,
School of Marine Science and Policy,
University of Delaware,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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LCSSP Panel - Southern California Wildfires & Water Quality: Science Meets Policy
Southern California Wildfires & Water Quality: Science Meets Policy
- Public Event
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Utilizing Engineering to Sustain and Advance Democracy
Gretchen Macht,
Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Rhode Island & Executive Director of the Engineering for Democracy Instituteute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Mariagiovanna Baccara,
Professor of Economics,
Olin School of Business,
Washington University St. Louis,
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Behavioral Foundations of Model Misspecification
Aislinn Bohren,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar (cross-listed with the LCSSP series)
All Learning is Generative
Boris Babic,
Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law,
University of Hong Kong,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation on AI and Governance in Elections
Betsy Sinclair,
Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformations, the Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, and Chair of the Political Science Department,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Theory of Electoral Turnout Based on Free-Riding Aversion
Laurent Bouton,
Professor of Economics,
Georgetown University,
Thursday, May 29th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Human Energy: A Conversation about Art, Power, and Resource Extraction
Jessica Segall,
Lecturer in Visual Culture and Spring 2025 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Brian Jacobson,
Professor of Visual Culture,
Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 2025
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Rethinking Online Content Ecosystems through the Lens of Computational Economics
Haifeng Xu,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science,
University of Chicago,