Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Monday, October 8th, 2012
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Expectations as Reference Points? From Theoretical Appeal to Empirical Problems
Lorenz Goette,
Professor of Business and Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of Lausanne,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Do Political Blogs Matter? Corruption in State-controlled Companies, Blog Postings, and DDoS Attacks
Maria Petrova,
UBS Assistant Professor of Economics, New Economic School, Moscow,
Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Ctr. for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Canonical Model of Choice with Initial Endowments (joint with Yusufcan Masatlioglu)
Ahmet Efe Ok,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Predictive Coding in Balanced Spiking Neural Networks
Sophie Deneve,
Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences cognitives,
Ecole Normale Superieure,
Friday, October 12th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets
Emerson Melo,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Monday, October 15th, 2012
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
How Better Information Can Garble Experts' Advice (joint with Ben Golub and Andrei Kirilenko)
Matthew Elliott,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Gridlock and Delegation in a Changing World
Steve Callander,
Associate Professor of Political Economy,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Yeon-Koo Che,
Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory,
Columbia University,
Friday, October 19th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Fractional Matching Markets
Vikram Manjunath,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Universite de Montreal,
7:00pm
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Galen in the Seventeenth Century
Gideon Manning,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring
Takuo Sugaya,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton University,
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Forging together Cognitive and Decision Science Principles to Build Decision Field Theory
Jerome R. Busemeyer,
Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences Cognitive Science Program,
Indiana University, Cognitive Science Program,
Friday, October 26th, 2012
9:30am
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From Stage to Screen: Filming Shakespeare's Plays
John Wyver,
Writer and Producer / Senior Research Fellow,
University of Westminster,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Projects and Team Dynamics
George Georgiadis,
Graduate Student,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
Monday, October 29th, 2012
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Sailing the Waters Edge: Where Domestic Politics Meets Foreign Policy
Dustin Tingley,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Information Aggregation in the Field: an Application to Sales Forecasting
Benjamin J. Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Bayesian inference and Non-Bayesian Prediction and Choice: Foundations and An Application to Entry Games with Multiple Equilibria
Larry G. Epstein,
Department of Economics,
Boston University,
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Catholic Cosmopolis: Rethinking Orientalism in Early Modern Rome
Daniel Stolzenberg,
Department of History,
UC Davis,
Monday, November 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Collective Self-Control
Alessandro Lizzeri,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study (joint with Thomas Palfrey)
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Optical, Molecular and Cellular Tools to Observe, Perturb, and Re-engineer Brain Circuits
Vivian Gradinaru,
Professor/Visiting Associate, Biology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Elicitation (and Evaluation) of Statistical Forecasts
Nicolas S. Lambert,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Friday, November 9th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Real Time Markets: Success or Disaster?
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Visual Place Learning in Drosophila
Michael Reiser,
Ph.D,
Janella Farm Research Campus,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Statistical Analysis of Results from Laboratory Studies in Experimental Economics: A Critique of Current Practice
Donald Green,
Professor of Political Science,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Giving Effective Feedback on Student Writing
Susanne Hall,
Campus Writing Coordinator in the Hixon Writing Center & Lecturer in Writing,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Limited Willpower
Yusufcan Masatlioglu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Goofball Panic: Bureaucratic Rationality, Economic Interest, and Irrational Sentiment in Postwar American Drug Regulation
Nicolas Rasmussen,
Professor in the School of History & Philosophy,
University of New South Wales,
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Prefrontal Contributions to Decision-Making: Insights from Brain-injured Patients
Lesley Fellows,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurology & Neurosugery,
McGill University,
Friday, November 16th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Average Testing and Pareto Efficiency
Yakov Babichenko,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
Monday, November 19th, 2012
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Uri Hasson,
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Leah Platt Boustan,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
UCLA,
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Physicist Max von Laue: "Knight Without Fear or Fault"
Dieter Hoffman,
Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
Monday, November 26th, 2012
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cortical circuits underlying olfaction
jeffrey Isaacson,
Associate Professor,
University California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Demand for Bad Policy When Voters Do Not Understand Equilibrium Effects (with Ernesto Dal Bó and Erik Eyster)
Pedro Dal Bo,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Confidence and Overconfidence and Political Economy (joint with Pietro Ortoleva)
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Learning to Simulate and Predict the Other
Hiroyuki Nakahara,
Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience,
Brain Research Institute, Institute of Chemical and Physical Research (RIKEN),
Friday, November 30th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Efficiency Loss in Cournot Oligopolies
Yunjian Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Political Parties and the Politics of Market Access in the Aftermath of Britain's Glorious Revolution
Dan Bogart,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of California-Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, December 3rd, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Understanding Ethnic Cooperation: Evidence from Experiments in Kenya
Edward Miguel,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Humanities Event
Life in the Gutter: White Space as Narrative Space
Reif Larsen,
Novelist & Essayist,
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar
Estimating an Equilibrium Model of Limit Order Markets
Thomas Ruchti,
Graduate Student,
HSS,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Combining Human Knowledge
Michael Lee,
Department of Cognitive Sciences,
UC Irvine, School of Social Sciences,
Friday, December 7th, 2012
4:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
Tipping Points: Reflections on the American and Irish Revolutions
Timothy Breen,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,