Calendar
Fall 2020-2021
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Constrained pseudo-market equilibrium
Federico Echenique,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives
- Internal Event
Monday, October 5th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Multiway Cluster Robust Double/Debiased Machine Learning
Yuya Sasaki,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Vanderbilt University,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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The Politics of News Personalization
Anqi Li,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Can America Have a Safe and Secure Presidential Election?
Online Event
Michael Alvarez,
Professor of Political and Computational Social Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Monday, October 12th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Peter Arcidiacono,
Professor of Economics,
Duke University,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Hard-to-Interpret Signals
Yoram Halevy,
Professor of Economics and Director of the Toronto Experimental Economics Lab (TEEL),
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto,
Thursday, October 15th, 2020
12:00pm
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
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Uncomfortable (Bodies in the Archive)
Dorit Cypis,
PeoplesLab,
Monique Thomas,
Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity,
- Internal Event
Monday, October 19th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE)
Colin F. Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience,
Caltech,
Erik Snowberg,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specification: Theory and Application
Jonathan Libgober,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Southern Califonia,
Monday, October 26th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Strategic Party Resource Allocation in US Congressional Elections
Shunto Kobayashi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Signaling with Private Monitoring
Gonzalo Cisternas,
Class of 1954 Career Development Associate Professor,
Applied Economics Group,
MIT Sloan School of Management.,
Friday, October 30th, 2020
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
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Histories of Eugenics: The Human Betterment Foundation and Beyond
Natalie Lira,
University of Illinois,
Ayah Nuriddin,
Johns Hopkins University,
Alexandra Minna Stern,
University of Michigan,
Sandy Rodriguez,
Independent Artist,
Virginia Espino,
UCLA,
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Beyond Cabdrivers: Labor Supply Reference Dependence of Rideshare Drivers
Tony Kukavica,
Undergraduate Student,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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How to Sell Hard Information
S. Nageeb Ali,
Professor of Economics,
Pennsylvania State University,
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Literary Dimensions Seminar
This seminar has been postponed.
Elaine Auyoung,
McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Associate Professor of English, and Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Sciences,
University of Minnesota,
Friday, November 6th, 2020
4:00pm
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Humanities Seminar
Online Event
Mammy, Hetty, Sarah, and an Old Healer Woman: Foremothers in The History of Mary Prince
Dana Murphy,
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Monday, November 9th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Topic to be announced
Nese Yildiz,
Associate Professor of Economics,
University of Rochester,
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Admissible Matchings in the School Choice Problem
Philip Reny,
The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Online Event
Ideal and Illusion: The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla
W. Bernard Carlson,
Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities; Chair, Engineering and Society Department; Professor of History, University of Virginia,
- Public Event
Friday, November 13th, 2020
11:00am
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3:30pm
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► CANCELED: T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium
This symposium has been canceled.
Monday, November 16th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Closed Form Estimators for a Class of Semiparametric Multinomial Choice Models
Dan Ackerberg,
Addison Baker Duncan Centennial Professor of Economics,
University of Texas, Austin,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Persuasion with Correlation Neglect
Inés Moreno de Barreda,
Associate Professor and Official Fellow,
St. Peter's College,
University of Oxford,
Friday, November 20th, 2020
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
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From Farm to Family: Agriculture, Race, and the Origins of Eugenics in Southern California
Narsiso Martinez,
Independent Artist,
Gabriel Rosenberg,
Duke University,
Yvette Saavedra,
University of Oregon,
Tiago Saraiva,
Drexel University,
Sarah Seekatz,
San Joaquin Delta College,
Monday, November 23rd, 2020
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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The OxyContin Reformulation Revisited: New Evidence from Improved Definitions of Markets and Substitutes
Shiyu Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, November 30th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Tug of War: Dynamic Outbidding Between Terrorist Groups
Michael Gibilisco,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Behavioral Neural Networks
Shaowei Ke,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Michigan,
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
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Attentional Foundations of Framing Effects
Ernst Fehr,
Professor of Economics and Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society,
University of Zurich,
Monday, December 7th, 2020
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Algorithm is Experiment: Machine Learning, Market Design, and Policy Eligibility Rules
Yusuke Narita,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics & Cowles Foundation,
Yale University,
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
12:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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This seminar has been postponed.
Konstantin Sonin,
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor,
Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, December 10th, 2020
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chen Institute Virtual Seminar CANCELED
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Bridging the Gap between Artificial and Human Intelligence: Feedback and Compositionality
Anima Anandkumar,
Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, December 11th, 2020
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Human, Scientist
Jennifer Jahner,
Professor of English (HSS),
Kriti Sharma,
Postdoctoral Scholar (GPS),
Charles Xu,
Graduate Student in Physics (PMA),
Maura Dykstra,
Assistant Professor of History (HSS),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Neuro Afternoon Meeting via Zoom
David Khan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
BBE,
Caltech,
Yue Xu,
Graduate Student,
Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Iman Wahle,
Scholar,
Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering,
Thursday, December 17th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions
Daphna Shohamy,
Professor,
Department of Psychology & Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute,
Columbia University,