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March 2011
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India
Rohini Pande,
professor of public policy,
Harvard University,
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Asset
M. Keith Chen,
associate professor of economics,
Yale School of Management,
Friday, March 4th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Mechanism Design Under a Budget
Yaron Singer,
graduate student in computer science,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Persuasion and the Effective Power of Majority
Catherine Hafer,
associate professor of politics,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Apples of Our Eyes: Art, Intellectual Property and American Fruits
Daniel J. Kevles,
J. O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus,
Caltech, and professor of history, Yale University,
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Restatement of the Theory of Monopoly with Applications to Merger Analysis
Glen Weyl,
junior fellow,
Harvard Society of Fellows,
Friday, March 11th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Mumro Memorial Seminar
What Can We Learn from Analogy in Mathematics?
Paul Bartha,
associate professor of philosophy,
University of British Columbia,
Monday, March 14th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Reggie Edgerton,
professor of integrative biology and physiology,
UCLA,
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Rational and Irrational Bubbles: An Experiment
Sébastien Pouget,
professor of finance,
University of Toulouse,
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality
Xavier Gabix,
New York University,
Friday, March 18th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Reenchanting the Reformation
Margreta de Grazia,
professor of the humanities,
the University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, March 21st, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Inference of Signs of Interaction Effects in Simultaneous Games with Incomplete Information
Aureo de Paula,
Department of Economics,
the University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, March 28th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Topic to be announced.
Robert Nowak,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Approximate Mechanism Design Without Money
Ariel Procaccia,
research fellow,
Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS),
Harvard University,
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Kosher Pork
Allan Drazen,
professor of economics,
University of Maryland,