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Monday, November 1st, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Collective Action with Uncertain Payoffs: Coordination, Public Signals & Punishment Dilemmas
Mehdi Shadmehr, University of Illinois,
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Interdependent Preferences and Strategic Distinguishability
Stephen Morris, professor of economics, Princeton University,
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar

Professors in Prison: Privation, Publicity, and the Care of the Self
Kristine Haugen, Assistant Professor of English, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

A General Model of Temporal Discounting Based on Two Value Systems
Samuel McClure, assistant professor of psychology, Stanford University,
Friday, November 5th, 2010
12:00pm 1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar

Pricing in Online Advertising Marketplace
Nilanjan Roy, graduate student in humanities and social sciences, Caltech,
Monday, November 8th, 2010
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar

Wealth and Death in Paris 1807–1937
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor in Business Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts
Benjamin Handel, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Local Gossip and Inter-generational Family Transfers: Comparative Political Economy of Insurance Provision
Yuki Takagi, Department of Government, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Revealed Political Power
Roger Lagunoff, professor of economics, Georgetown University,
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Improving Efficiency in Matching Markets with Regional Caps: The Case of the Japan Residency Matching Program
Fuhito Kojima, assistant professor of economics, Stanford University,
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

The Role of the Hippocampus in Generalization: Theoretical Issues and a Proposed Model
Dharshan Kumaran, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London,
Friday, November 12th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Walther Rathenau's Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul
Shulamit Volkov, professor of modern history, Tel Aviv University,
Monday, November 15th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Turnout and Political Polarization: How Encouraging Voting Changes Political Outcomes
Justin Valasek, graduate student in economics, Duke University ,
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

On Dynamic Compromise
T. Renee Bowen, assistant professor of economics, Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Time Preference: Experiments and Foundations
Jawward Noor, assistant professor of economics, Boston Univeristy,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Immanuel Velikovsky and the Pseudoscience Wars: The Great Collision of 1950
Michael Gordin, professor of history, Princeton University,
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar

Using Cognition to Regulate Emotion: From Basic Mechanisms to Mechanistic Breakdowns
Kevin Ochsner, associate professor of psychology, Columbia University,
Friday, November 19th, 2010
12:00pm 1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar

Queueing Games in Call Centers
Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, graduate student in computer science, Caltech,
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Digital Democratization: Suffrage Expansion and the Decline of Political Machines in Brazil
F. Daniel Hidalgo, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
4:00pm 5:00pm
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The Humanities and Social Sciences Mellon Divisional Lecture

Modeling Causal Judgment
Christopher Hitchcock, professor of philosophy, Caltech,