Calendar
Fall 2024-2025
Monday, September 30th, 2024
11:00am
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation with Registrar of Voters Bob Page: Processing vote-by-mail ballots, operating vote centers, and managing election misinformation and disinformation in Orange County, California
Bob Page,
Registrar of Voters for Orange County, California,
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town
Kyle Meng,
Associate Professor,
Bren School of Environmental Management and the Department of Economics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Nonparametric Estimation of Selection Models: A Functional Contraction Approach
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation with Election Technology Providers about the Industry's Preparations and Readiness to Support Election 2024
Friday, October 4th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Model Uncertainty, Disagreement, and Over-Precision: Theory and Evidence
Ned Augenblick,
Associate Professor,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When to Decide: Timing of Choice in Parallel Search
Can Urgun,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Implicit Government Guarantees
Andrew Sinclair,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
Friday, October 11th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Nonparametric Estimation of Selection Models
Fan Wu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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10/12
5:00pm
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Visual Culture Symposium
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Plugged In: Art and Electric Light
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation with Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse OIiver, Chief Election Official of the State of New Mexico
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Optimal Mechanisms for Demand Response: An Indifference Set Approach
Stefan Wager,
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Panel
Online Event
Impact of Loper Bright on the Regulation of Biotechnology
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Happens When Voters Can Delegate Their Votes? Evidence from Liquid Democracy Online
Andrew Hall,
Davies Family Professor, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University,
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Endogenous Financial Networks and Systemic Risk: A Demand System Approach
Romain Ranciere,
Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife; Professor of Finance & Business Economics, USC Marshall; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
An Organizational Theory of State Capacity
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of the Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations,
Eccles School of Business,
The University of Utah,
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Multidimensional Screening with Rich Consumer Data
Mira Frick,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
Friday, October 25th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, October 28th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience Seminar: Dr. James Jeanne
Mechanisms of parallel processing in the brain
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Conducting elections in the largest U.S. election jurisdiction
Dean Logan,
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Do Rational Beliefs Make You Happy? An Experiment on How to be a Spectator
Andrew Schotter,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Guy Talk: Catalyzing Peer Effects on IPV through Virtual Support Groups for Men
Erica Field,
Professor of Economics,
Duke University,
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
What is a machine in the European Middle Ages? Cognition, mechanics, and cosmology in medieval philosophy
Jonathan Morton,
Associate Professor,
Tulane University,
Friday, November 1st, 2024
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Structured Deliberation
Dmitri Gallow,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
Monday, November 4th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Trade, Industrialization, and Regional Disparities: Evidence from China during the Warlord Era
Kexin Feng,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Market Power and Insurance Coverage
Daniel Gottlieb,
Arkley Chair in Risk Management and Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
USC,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Re-Cap and Discussion of Election Day by Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Co-Directors R. Michael Alvarez and Charles Stewart, III
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Mathematical Writings of Antoine Parent
John F. Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Inertial Updating with General Information
Gerelt Tserenjigmid,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UC Santa Cruz,
Thursday, November 7th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Incentivizing Information Acquisition
Fan Wu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
An Entrepreneurial Journey on the Road Less Traveled
Stuart Weitzman,
American shoe designer and the founder of the luxury shoe company Stuart Weitzman,
Friday, November 8th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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POSTPONED: Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
This seminar has been postponed.
Manuel Mueller-Frank,
Professor of Economics,
IESE Business School,
University of Navarra,
Monday, November 11th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Network and Timing Effects in Social Learning
Wade Hann-Caruthers,
Postdoc,
Game Theory Group,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Collective action in heterogeneous societies: the role of strategic uncertainty
Dimitri Landa,
Professor of Politics and Director of the MA Pre-PhD program,
New York University,
Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
When Is It Hard to Make Ends Meet?
Jialan Wang,
Visiting Associate in Finance,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Matching with Pre-Existing Binding Agreements: The Agreeable Core
Peter Doe,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, November 18th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Failing to Plan or Planning to Fail: A Study on Commitment Failure
Polina Detkova,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Another AI is Possible
Catherine D'Ignazio,
Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab,
MIT,