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April 2016
Friday, April 1st, 2016
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital
Michael Ewens,
Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Climate, Geography, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Institutions
Stephen Haber,
A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Political Science,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Hongjun Yan, Rutgers Business School
Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
4:00pm
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Friday, April 8th, 2016
9:30am
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Monday, April 11th, 2016
12:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
History Dependence in Networks of Close Relationships: Theory and Applications
James Rauch, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision: Real versus Formal Authority
George Georgiadis,
Assistant Professor of Strategy,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Charles Nathanson, Northwestern University
An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
Charles Nathanson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Northwestern University,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Harris Lecture: John P.A. Ioannidis
Empirical research on research and the reproducibility crisis
John P.A. Ioannidis,
C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention, Professor of Health Research and Policy,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 14th, 2016
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Hot Hand Fallacy Fallacy
Joshua Miller,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Bocconi University,
Friday, April 15th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Kevin Leyton Brown
Modeling Human Play in Unrepeated Games
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, April 18th, 2016
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Optimal Dynamic Matching
Leeat Yariv,
Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Agency Problems in Campaign Finance
Gregory Martin, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Emory University,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Bounded Cognition in Intertemporal Choice
Jawwad Noor, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
How single neuron biophysics influences network function
Adrienne Fairhall,
University of Washington,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Priors and constraints in human structure learning
Anne Collins,
Assistant Professor of Research,
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences,
Brown University,
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Assessing Scientific Theories
Stephan Hartmann,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Alexander von Humboldt Professor,
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, April 25th, 2016
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Candidate Entry and Political Polarization: Theory and Experiments
Jens Grosser,
Visiting Associate in Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Perception as an inference problem
Bruno Olshausen,
Professor,
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Formal Behavioralism
Daniel Diermeier, Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy and Emmett Dedmon Professor of Public Administration, University of Chicago,
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue
Topic to be Announced
Huseyin Gulen,
Associate Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: John Cochrane, Stanford University
A new approach to monetary policy
John Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Cold War Geographies and the Making of the Indian Space Program
Asif Siddiqi,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
On Changing False Beliefs: Two Cases from Experimental Economics and Their Economic Implications
Vernon L. Smith,
George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics,
Chapman University,
Friday, April 29th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
Procrastination with Variable Present Bias
Nicole Immorlica, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England,