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April 2010
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
An Alternative Approach to ML Estimation of Multinomial Choice Models of Voting
Alexey V. Zakharov,
Assistant Professor,
State University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Fiction and Scientific Modeling
Roman Frigg,
senior lecturer in philosophy,
London School of Economics,
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Oligopoly Pricing in Congested Markets
Emerson Melo,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Ancient Greek Atomism and the Mechanical Philosophy
Sylvia Berryman,
associate professor of philosophy,
University of British Columbia,
Monday, April 5th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
How to Save the Voting Rights Act from the Roberts Court
J. Morgan Kousser,
Professor of History and Social Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Screening with an Approximate Type Space
Kristof Madarasz,
assistant professor of managerial economics,
MES, STICERD,
London School of Economics,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Matching with Trade-offs: Revealed Preferences Over Competing Characteristics
Alfred Galichon,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Social Cognition and Decision Making Impairments in Psychopathy: The Roles of the Amygdala and vmPFC
James Blair,
National Institute of Mental Health,
Monday, April 12th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Genetics and Immunology of Narcolepsy and Hypocretin
Emmanuel Mignot,
professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Deliberately Incomplete Press Censorship
Peter Lornetzen,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Dynamic Incentive Accounts
Tomasz Sadzik,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Simplicity in the Copernican Revolution: Galileo, Descartes, and Newton
David B. Wilson,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Mental State Reasoning for Estabishing Innocence and Guilt
Liane Young,
postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences,
MIT,
Friday, April 16th, 2010
12:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Distance-dependent Kronecker Graphs for Modeling Social Networks
Elizabeth Bodine-Baron,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Monday, April 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Normalization Model of Attention
David Heeger,
professor of psychology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Comparing Several Models of Stochastic Choice Under Risk
Nathaniel T. Wilcox,
professor of economics,
Economic Science Institute,
Chapman University,
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
12:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Computing Market Equilibria versus How Markets Really Work
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments
Erik Snowberg,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of Dictatorships
Alexander Debs,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Yale University,
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
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Bray Theory Workshop
Combinatorial Voting
David Ahn,
Department of Economics,
University of California, Berkeley,
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Dynamics of Decision Making: Optimality, Human Performance and the Competing Accumulator Model
James L. McClelland,
professor of psychology,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 30th, 2010
12:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Why Aren't Choices Instantaneous?: Modeling How Looking Patterns Guide the Computation and Comparison of Utility
Ian Krajbich,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,