Calendar
Fall 2010-2011
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
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Bray Theory Workshop
Uncertainty Equivalents: Linear Tests of the Independence Axiom
James Andreoni,
professor of economics,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Assessing Strategic Risk with fMRI
Giorgio Coricelli,
assistant professor of economics,
USC,
Friday, October 1st, 2010
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Genetic History and Migrations in Western Eurasia 500-1000
Patrick Geary,
professor of history,
UCLA,
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Dynamic Electoral Competition and Constitutional Design
Marco Battaglini,
professor of economics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Reason-Based Choice: A Bargaining Rationale for the Attraction and Compromise Effects
Kfir Eliaz,
associate professor of economics,
Brown University,
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neural Implementation of Foraging Decisions in Macaca Mulata
Benjamin Hayden,
postdoctoral fellow,
Duke University,
Friday, October 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Solving for Engineering Constraints in Product and Market Designs
Stephen Cunningham,
OpenX,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Does Kant have a Pre-Newtonian Conception of Force?: How the Balance Argument Works
Sheldon Smith,
associate professor of philosophy,
UCLA,
Monday, October 11th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure and Abstraction
Josh Tenebaum,
associate professor of cognitive science and computation,
MIT,
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
How Brains Think About Minds
Rebecca Saxe,
assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Attributes (joint paper with Diego Klabjan and Asher Wolinsky)
Wojciech Olszewski,
professor of economics,
Northwestern University,
Friday, October 15th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Heterogeneity, Mobility, and the Role of Local Institutions in Self-Organizing Communities
Andrea Robbett,
graduate student,
Caltech,
Monday, October 18th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar
Inefficiencies in Networked Makets
Matthew Elliot,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
On the Relative Robustness of the Size of Tests to Local Model Violations
Patrik Guggenberger,
associate professor of economics,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Correlated Genotypes in Friendship Networks
James H. Fowler,
professor,
School of Medicine and Division of Social Sciences,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Observational Learning and Demand for Search Goods
Thomas Wiseman,
associate professor of economics,
the University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neural Basis of Goal-Directed and Habitual Control in the Human Brain
John O'Doherty,
professor of psychology,
Caltech,
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
12:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
New Models and Methodologies for Group Decision Making, Rank Aggregation, Clustering and Data Mining
Dorit Hochbaum,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Early Kant's (Anti-)Newtonianism
Eric Watkins,
professor of philosophy and science studies,
UC San Diego,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Francisco Valero-Cuevas,
associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biokinesiology and physical the,
USC,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
How Does Knowledge Diffuse? The Case of Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States, 1880-1930
Shawn Kantor,
UC Merced,
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Congressional Development of the Institutional Presidency
Sean Gailmard,
Judith E. Gruber associate professor of political science,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit Banerjee,
professor of economics,
MIT,
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Outcome Expectancies and the Mysterious Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Reinforcement Learning
Geoffrey Schoenbaum,
professor,
departments of anatomy, and neurobiology and psychology,
University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Friday, October 29th, 2010
12:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
An Empirical Take on Computational Complexity in Economic Models
Adam Wierman,
assistant professor of computer science,
Caltech,
Monday, November 1st, 2010
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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
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Bray Theory Workshop
Interdependent Preferences and Strategic Distinguishability
Stephen Morris,
professor of economics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
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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
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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,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
12:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bray Theory Workshop
Time Preference: Experiments and Foundations
Jawward Noor,
assistant professor of economics,
Boston Univeristy,
4:00pm
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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
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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
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Queueing Games in Call Centers
Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan,
graduate student in computer science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Special Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Castos Rivadulla,
University of the District of Columbia,
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
4:00pm
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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
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The Humanities and Social Sciences Mellon Divisional Lecture
Modeling Causal Judgment
Christopher Hitchcock,
professor of philosophy,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Probabilistic Computations Despite Cognitive Limitations
Edward Vul,
assistant professor of psychology,
UC San Diego,
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Leibniz and His Followers on Action and Reaction: The Origin of Kant's Third Law of Mechanics
Marius Stan,
Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy,
Caltech,