Calendar
Fall 2022-2023
Friday, September 30th, 2022
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reputation and Capture: Limits of the Administrative Presidency
Lindsey Gailmard,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 5th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Estimating Social Network Models with Missing Links
Arthur Lewbel,
Barbara A. and Patrick E. Roche Professor of Economics,
Boston College,
Monday, October 10th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises
Cesi Cruz,
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar Series: Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin
Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin,
Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research, Departments of Psychology & Neuroscience at Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Distributions of Posterior Quantiles and Economic Applications
Kai Hao Yang,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Yale School of Management.,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:45pm
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Watson Lecture: The Brain Hates Losing (and Other News from Neuroeconomics)
Online and In-Person Event
Colin Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, October 14th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Diffusion of new products on networks
Gadi Fibich,
Professor of Applied Mathematics,
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Tel Aviv University,
Monday, October 17th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
My Electric Genealogy
Sarah Kanouse,
Artist and Associate Professor at Northeastern University,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Neurobiology and Computation & Neural Systems seminar.
"Neural structure, function, and dynamics in C. elegans "
Andrew Leifer,
Assistant Professor,
Physics & Neuroscience,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Simplicity, Risk, and Financial Choice
Indira Puri,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
MIT,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED: Chen Institute for Neuroscience Seminar: Dr. Mayank Mehta
From virtual reality to reality: How neurons create space from time
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Blackwell Correlated Equilibrium
Doron Ravid,
Assistant Professor,
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Monday, October 24th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Culturing Nature's Order: A History of Exemplary Microbes and Manufactured Milieus
Charles A. Kollmer,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in History of Biology,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
Xavier Vives,
Professor of Economics and Finance,
IESE Business School,
University of Navarra,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Microsoft Research New England,
Friday, October 28th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Mentors and Recombinators: Multi-Dimensional Social Learning
Yuval Heller,
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University; Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego,
Monday, October 31st, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
(Real) Wages in the Middle Ages: The Economic Implications of In-Kind Payment on Medieval English Demesnes, 1250-1450
Jordan Claridge,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economic History,
London School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Placing People at the Centre of a Just Transition
Dr. Ramit Debnath,
Inaugural CambridgeZero Fellow,
University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
The Great Depression as a global crisis, 1927-37: What do we know?
Stefan Link,
Associate Professor of History,
Dartmouth College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Multi-Dimensional Screening: Buyer-Optimal Learning And Informational Robustness
Anne-Katrin Roesler,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Toronto,
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Innovation Adoption by Committee: Evidence from the FDA
Nathan Canen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Houston,
Friday, November 4th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Auditability in Allocation Problems
Aram Grigoryan,
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets
Giulia Brancaccio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics, Stern School of Business,
New York University,
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Costly monitoring in signaling games
Tommaso Denti,
Assistant Professor and Salvatore Faculty Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Cornell University,
Monday, November 14th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar Series
The Edge of Understanding: Science in a Bordered World
Yangyang Cheng,
Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center,
Yale Law School,
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Gerrymandering the Swing Voters
Allison Stashko,
Assistant Professor,
David Eccles School of Business,
University of Utah,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Calculating the Length of Life in the Sixteenth Century: Arabic Astrology and Humanist Reforms
Margaret E. Gaida,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
The complexity of economic decisions: theory and evidence
Xavier Gabaix,
Pershing Square Professor of Economics and Finance,
Harvard University,
Thursday, November 17th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Finance and Climate Resilience: Evidence from the 1950s Drought
Rodney Ramcharan,
Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
Monday, November 21st, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The geometry of consumer preference aggregation
Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reference Dependence and Goal Motivation: Evidence From Online Chess
Jeff Zeidel,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Air Pollution and School Absences in New York City
Daniel Guth,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Securities Ratings and Information Provision
Eric Hilt,
Professor of Economics,
Wellesley College,
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Plurality Veto: A Simple Voting Rule Achieving Optimal Metric Distortion
Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya,
Research Assistant,
USC,
Monday, December 5th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Power over One's Body: Childbirth Activism in Divided Germany
Jennifer Rodgers,
Research Assistant Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech; Einstein Papers Project,
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Marcos Nazareth Gallo,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Prizes and effort in contests with private information
Sumit Goel,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,