Calendar
Fall 2023-2024
Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Scenario Sampling for Large Supermodular Games
Bryan Graham,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, September 29th, 2023
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Monday, October 2nd, 2023
4:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
A Data-Driven Approach to Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon
Tamma Carleton,
Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics, Climate Change,
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, October 5th, 2023
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Implicit Government Guarantees
Andrew J. Sinclair,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
Friday, October 6th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Monday, October 9th, 2023
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Possibilities: On Weaving Science into Fiction
Yael Goldstein-Love,
Novelist,
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Connecting Common Ratio and Common Consequence Preferences
Charles Sprenger,
Professor of Economics; Executive Officer for the Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
The Effects of Peremptory Challenges on Jury Diversity and Conviction Rates
Joanna Huey,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Disappearing Without a Trace: The Arrows of Time in Kent's Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem
Emily Adlam,
Assistant Professor,
Schmid College of Science and Technology,
Chapman University,
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 12th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
Attitudes toward Automation and the Demand for Policies Addressing Job Loss: The Effects of Information about Trade-Offs
Beatrice Magistro,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Deciphering Suboptimal Updating: Complexity, Structure, and Sequencing
Marina Agranov,
Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Difference-in-Differences with Interference: A Finite Population Perspective
Ruonan Xu,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
School of Art and Sciences,
Rutgers,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, October 20th, 2023
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, October 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Learning About Informativeness
Wanying (Kate) Huang,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Adapting to Misspecification
Tim Armstrong,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
USC,
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Rationalizable Information Design
Olivier Gossner,
Professor, London School of Economics; Senior Researcher, CNRS; Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Mild Government Failure
Shang-Jin Wei,
N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics,
Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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Visual Culture Seminar
Water and Equitable Sustainability in the California Central Valley
Angela Islas,
Water Project Manager,
CivicWell,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Elicitability
Nicolas Lambert,
Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure),
USC,
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Robust Estimation of Risk Preferences
Aldo Lucia,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been postponed.
John Norton,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century South
Elizabeth Cascio,
Professor of History,
Dartmouth College,
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Privacy Preserving Signal
Kai Hao Yang,
Assistant Professor,
School of Management,
Yale University,
5:00pm
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11/4
8:00pm
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Monday, November 6th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Dynamic Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders: Evidence from the Online Advertising Market
Shunto Kobayashi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Spending Constraints: Why City Discretionary Funding Doesn't Reach Needy Neighborhoods
Julia Payson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
UCLA,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Cognitive Hierarchies in Multi-Stage Games of Incomplete Information: Theory and Experiment
Po-Hsuan Lin,
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
Knowing Your Lemon Before You Dump It" joint work with Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
Alessandro Pavan,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023
4:00pm
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CSSPP/HPS Seminar
What's So Special about Genetic Information, Anyway?
Ozan Gurcan,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Science, Society, and Public Policy,
Caltech,
Friday, November 10th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Stable Matching as Transportation
Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
Monday, November 13th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Can network ties help improve women's aspiration towards entrepreneurship?
Juni Singh,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Social Sciences of Sustainability,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
4:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins,
Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor,
Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department, Wisconsin School of Business,
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Evaluating Instrument Validity using the Principle of Independent Mechanisms
Patrick F. Burauel,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Panel Event
Publishing Your Science: A Roundtable Conversation
Friday, November 17th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
Publication Ethics: A Conversation with Jennifer Wright from Cambridge University Press
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
When the Greeks Ceased to be Greek: John Milton and Early Modern Greece
Tomos Evans,
Hellenic Research Fellow at California State University, Sacramento, and an Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute,