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October 2010
Friday, October 1st, 2010
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Social Science History Seminar
Genetic History and Migrations in Western Eurasia 500-1000
Patrick Geary,
professor of history,
UCLA,
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Dynamic Electoral Competition and Constitutional Design
Marco Battaglini,
professor of economics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Reason-Based Choice: A Bargaining Rationale for the Attraction and Compromise Effects
Kfir Eliaz,
associate professor of economics,
Brown University,
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neural Implementation of Foraging Decisions in Macaca Mulata
Benjamin Hayden,
postdoctoral fellow,
Duke University,
Friday, October 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Solving for Engineering Constraints in Product and Market Designs
Stephen Cunningham,
OpenX,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Does Kant have a Pre-Newtonian Conception of Force?: How the Balance Argument Works
Sheldon Smith,
associate professor of philosophy,
UCLA,
Monday, October 11th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure and Abstraction
Josh Tenebaum,
associate professor of cognitive science and computation,
MIT,
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
How Brains Think About Minds
Rebecca Saxe,
assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Attributes (joint paper with Diego Klabjan and Asher Wolinsky)
Wojciech Olszewski,
professor of economics,
Northwestern University,
Friday, October 15th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Heterogeneity, Mobility, and the Role of Local Institutions in Self-Organizing Communities
Andrea Robbett,
graduate student,
Caltech,
Monday, October 18th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar
Inefficiencies in Networked Makets
Matthew Elliot,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
On the Relative Robustness of the Size of Tests to Local Model Violations
Patrik Guggenberger,
associate professor of economics,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Correlated Genotypes in Friendship Networks
James H. Fowler,
professor,
School of Medicine and Division of Social Sciences,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Observational Learning and Demand for Search Goods
Thomas Wiseman,
associate professor of economics,
the University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neural Basis of Goal-Directed and Habitual Control in the Human Brain
John O'Doherty,
professor of psychology,
Caltech,
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
New Models and Methodologies for Group Decision Making, Rank Aggregation, Clustering and Data Mining
Dorit Hochbaum,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Early Kant's (Anti-)Newtonianism
Eric Watkins,
professor of philosophy and science studies,
UC San Diego,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Francisco Valero-Cuevas,
associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biokinesiology and physical the,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
How Does Knowledge Diffuse? The Case of Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States, 1880-1930
Shawn Kantor,
UC Merced,
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Congressional Development of the Institutional Presidency
Sean Gailmard,
Judith E. Gruber associate professor of political science,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit Banerjee,
professor of economics,
MIT,
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Outcome Expectancies and the Mysterious Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Reinforcement Learning
Geoffrey Schoenbaum,
professor,
departments of anatomy, and neurobiology and psychology,
University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Friday, October 29th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
An Empirical Take on Computational Complexity in Economic Models
Adam Wierman,
assistant professor of computer science,
Caltech,