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April 2012
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Effect of Negotiations on Bargaining in Legislatures
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Getting Easter Wrong in the Fifteenth Century, and What Is To Be Done
Noel Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Learning, Representation and Generalization of Uncertainty
Konrad Kording,
Associate Professor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Physiology,
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Afterlife of Isaac Newton: Accidents of the Archive and the History of Science
Sarah Dry,
Independent Scholar,
Monday, April 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Control of Visual Spatial Attention by Prefrontal Cortex
Tirin Moore,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurobiology and HHMI,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Substituting the End for the Whole: Why Voters Respond Primarily to the Election-Year Economy
Gabriel Lenz,
Assistant Professor of Political Behavior, American Politics,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Large-Market Rational Expectations Equibrium Model
Xavier Vives,
Professor of Economics and Finance,
IESE,
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linde Institute Distinguished Seminar
Foundations of Economic Performance A Practitioners View
Gene Huang,
Chief Economist and Vice President,
FedEx,
Friday, April 13th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Analysing Alkaloids, Analysis Mania: What Liebig's 1830 Laboratory Notebook Can Tell Us About the Practice of Organic Analysis
Catherine Jackson,
Chemical Heritage Foundation,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
Dan Silverman,
Associate Professor,
University of Michigan,
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Mechanisms of Inter-Temporal Decision-Making: Trait and State Effects
Jan Peters,
Institute for Systems Neuroscience,
University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf,
Friday, April 20th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Robustness in Network Formation Game
Khai Xiang Chiong,
Graduate Student,
HSS,
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Religious Practice and Political Trust in India: Exploring the Causal Role of an Attribute
Jasjeet Sekhon,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Many-to-Many Matching Design
Alessandro Pavan,
Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Control, Learning and Exploration in Human Decision-Making
Etienne Koechlin,
Director, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, France,
Friday, April 27th, 2012
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Power of Revealed Preference Tests: Ex-Post Evaluation of Experimental Design
Benjamin Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,