Calendar
Fall 2013-2014
Friday, September 6th, 2013
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Monday, September 30th, 2013
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Equilibrium as a Steady State in Games with Uncertainty
Jernej Copic,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
A Test for Weakly Separable Preferences
John Quah,
Oxford University,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Stable Matching with Incomplete Information
Andrew Postlewaite,
Harry P. Kamen Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance,
Department of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, October 4th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Equilibria Via Samples and Testing Equilibrium Behavior
Yakov Babichenko,
Wally Baer and Jeri Weiss Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A Tale of Two Vigne: Galileo, the Telescope and Roman Elites, 1611
Thomas F. Mayer,
Augustana College,
Monday, October 7th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Firm Founding on Innovation (with Christian Fons-Rosen)
Michael Ewens,
Assistant Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship,
Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Fighting rather than Bargaining
James Fearon,
Stanford University,
Thursday, October 10th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Value Computation and Value Modulation: A Dual-process Theory of Self-Control
Isabelle Brocas,
University of Southern California,
Visiting Associate, Caltech,
Friday, October 11th, 2013
9:30am
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10/12
4:00pm
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Humanities Conference
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Worlds of Learning: Early Modern Debates over Taxonomies of Knowledge
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Competition in Persuasion
Emir Kamenica,
Professor of Economics,
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business,
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Economics of Faith: Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs
Ernesto Dal Bo,
Phillips Girgich Associate Professor of Business,
Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, October 18th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Project Design with Limited Commitment and Teams
George Georgiadis,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Business, Economics, and Management,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Sunday, October 20th, 2013
2:00pm
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Monday, October 21st, 2013
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
The evolutionary origins of human cognition viewed from the study of chimpanzees
Tetsuro Matsuzawa,
Professor,
Kyoto University,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Francesco Trebbi,
University of British Columbia,
Monday, October 28th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Ranking Experts by an Ignorant Planner: Universal Mechanisms, Entropy Scoring and Implementation (joint with D. Prelec, S. Radas and H. Sikic)
Jaksa Cvitanic,
Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty
Amanda Friedenberg,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Arizona State University,
Friday, November 1st, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Network Improvement Problem for Equilibrium Routing
Umang Bhaskar,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, November 4th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Unfree Labour: Did Indenture Reduce labour supply to Tea Plantations in Assam?
Bishnupriya Gupta,
Associate Professor in Economics,
University of Warwick,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Preferential Voting and the Selection of Party Leaders: Evidence from Sweden
Olle Folke,
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images Program Event
Genre as Artifact: Text and Image in American Autobiography from Benjamin Franklin to Ulysses S. Grant
Christopher Hunter,
Assistant Professor of English,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Optical stimulation of distinct cell assemblies generates a new artificial associative-memory
Kaoru Inokuchi,
Professor,
University of Toyama,
Monday, November 11th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games
Jeremy Fox,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Empirical Implications of Privacy-Aware Choice
Rachel Cummings,
PhD Student,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Beeps
Jeffrey C. Ely,
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
1:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Spatiotemporal patterns of sub-threshold oscillatory activity in the inferior convexity of the macaque prefrontal cortex
Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos,
Ph.D.,
Biological Cybernetics,
Max Planck Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Guns and Roses: Exports and Electoral Violence in Kenya
Ameet Morjaria,
Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science,
Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard's Center for International Development,
Friday, November 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Market Equilibrium: Complementary Pivot Algorithms and How They Led to a New Class of Utility Functions
Vijay Vazirani,
School of Computer Science,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
A Neuro-Computational Account of Economic Choices
Philippe Domenech, MD. PhD.,
Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
NOA's Einstein / Einstein's NOA
Thomas Ryckman,
Professor of Philosophy,
Stanford University,
Monday, November 18th, 2013
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
From the jungle to telemedicine: towards integration and translation in cognitive neurosciences
Ricardo Gil da Costa,
SALK Institute,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions (with Thierry Verdier, Paris School of Economics)
Alberto Bisin,
New York University,
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Efficiency and Information Aggregation in Auctions with Heterogeneous Agents
Sevgi Yuksei,
PhD Student,
New York University,
Thursday, November 21st, 2013
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Decision-Making in Perception and Action
Angela Yu,
UC San Diego,
Friday, November 22nd, 2013
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Complexity of Nash Equilibria as Revealed by Data
Siddharth Barman,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Representing Order Information in Elementary Geometry: Diagrams vs. Axioms
John Mumma,
Philosophy Department,
California State University of San Bernardino,
Monday, November 25th, 2013
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Savage in the Market
Kota Saito,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Federico Echenique,
Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
The cross-linguistic prevalence of SOV and SVO word orders reflects the sequential and hierarchical representation of action in Broca's area
David Kemmerer,
Professor,
SLHS Department,
Purdue University,
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Insider Trading and Multidimensional Private Information
Tomasz Sadzik,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Simple Prices for Complex Markets
Nicole Immorlica,
Assistant Professor,
Theoretical Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Mis-allocation of Political Capital
Frederico Finan,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Intermediation in Networks
Mihai Manea,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Adaptive Inference in a Dynamic World
Joshua Gold,
University of Pennsylvania,