Calendar
Winter 2025-2026
Friday, January 9th, 2026
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event
Off Campus
Film Screening | The Gold Rush (1925), Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Random Utility with Aggregation
Kota Saito,
Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Inside the 2025 Caltech Election Integrity Project Conferences: Research, Risks, and Real-World Implications
Betsy Sinclair,
Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, Chair of Political Science, and Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformations,
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU),
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Friday, January 16th, 2026
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event
Off Campus
Film Screening | Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017), Directed by Bill Morrison
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, January 23rd, 2026
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event
Off Campus
Film Screening | The Hidden Fortress (1958), Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Extreme Equilibria: The Benefits of Correlation
Leeat Yariv,
Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Beyond the Hype: A Research Driven Look at Claims About New Voting Technology
Michael Specter,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity & Privacy,
Georgia Tech,
Delaney Gomen,
PhD Student in Computer Science,
Georgia Tech,
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions & Visual Culture Program Seminar
From Text to Media
Anna Shechtman,
Assistant Professor of Literatures in English,
Cornell University,
Friday, January 30th, 2026
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event
Off Campus
Film Screening | Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Directed by Werner Herzog
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Chen Institute Director's Seminar: Dr. Maryam Shanechi
AI-driven neurotechnology for neural decoding and modulation
Maryam M. Shanechi,
Alexander A. Sawchuk Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Neuroscience,
USC,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan,
Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics,
MIT,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Trust and Confidence in Elections in Rural America
Cameron Wimpy,
Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Government, Law & Policy,
Arkansas State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Temperature Shocks and Climate Change: A Conceptual Analysis
Christian Traeger,
Professor of Economics,
University of Oslo,
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
From Predictive Algorithms to Automatic Generation of Anomalies
Ashesh Rambachan,
Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
Connected Histories of Money and Labor in Early America
Katie Moore,
Associate Professor,
Department of History,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
For Want of a Bale: Equine Energy in the American Civil War
Ariel Ron,
Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era and Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
Southern Methodist University,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: History Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Emilie Connolly,
Assistant Professor of History,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Stefano Fusi
The geometry of abstraction: from cognitive to spatial maps
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours
Online Event
Bridging the Gap: Supporting Election Stakeholders at the Intersection of Administration, Technology, and Security
Mike Moser,
Founder of Moser Solutions LLC,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Doubly Robust Inference in Causal Latent Factor Models
Alberto Abadie,
Professor of Economics,
MIT,
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Margaret Cavendish's Dialogue Poetics
Tanya Schmidt Morstein,
Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in English,
Caltech,
Friday, March 6th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Reduced Forms: Feasibility, Extremality, Optimality
Ilia Krasikov,
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Arizona State University; Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research,
Monday, March 9th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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HPS/LCSSP Seminar
Defining and Detecting Discrimination: A New Way Forward
Issa Kohler-Hausmann,
Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data
Guillaume Fréchette,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reducing Lost Votes by Mail: Evidence on Vote Curing from Pennsylvania
Marc Meredith,
Professor of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, March 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Topic to be announced
Eden Saig,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, March 16th, 2026