Calendar
Fall 2025-2026
Thursday, September 18th, 2025
10:30am
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Friday, September 19th, 2025
12:00pm
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T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center Seminar: Nancy Kanwisher
Intuitive Physical Reasoning in the Human Brain
Nancy Kanwisher,
Investigator, McGovern Institute, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
MIT,
Thursday, September 25th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Monday, September 29th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Naturalistic Paradigms and Real Rewards for Unveiling Neurocognitive Mechanisms in Decision-Making and Addiction
Woo-Young Ahn,
Professor in the Department of Psychology and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences,
Seoul National University,
Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Trust but Verify? Experimental Evidence on Disclosure, Deception and Punishment in the Data Economy
Ginger Jin,
Professor of Economics,
University of Maryland,
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation on Election Technology with Ben Adida, PhD, Executive Director of VotingWorks
Ben Adida,
Founder and Executive Director,
VotingWorks,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A General Framework for Estimating Preferences Using Response Time Data
Federico Echenique,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, October 6th, 2025
8:00am
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10/7
5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Talking across the Aisle
Peter Schwardmann,
Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data
Phil Haile,
Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Launch of the Linde Center BioPolicy Initiative
Biology as a Cultural, Political, & Strategic Domain
Drew Endy,
Hoover Institution Science and Senior Fellow and Martin Family Fellow in Undergraduate Education for Bioengineering at Stanford University,
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
9:00am
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10/17
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
Ran Abramitzky,
Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economic,
Stanford University,
Friday, October 17th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bias and Accuracy in Jury Selection
Amna Salam,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
UC San Diego,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
10:30am
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project
Online Event
State Redistricting Impacts Around the Nation
Jonathan N. Katz,
Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Foreign Sponsor's Dilemma
Xiaoyan (Christy) Qiu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Monday, November 3rd, 2025
7:00pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project
Online Event
The Votes are in: A Post-Election Day Discussion on the Results' Implications
Christian Grose,
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy,
USC,
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Productivity and Knowledge Transfer: Evidence from Prisoner Employment
Michela Giorcelli,
Associate Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Promise and puzzles of neuroforecasting
Brian Knutson,
Professor of Psychology,
Stanford University,
Monday, November 10th, 2025
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Writers in Residence Program
When We Were Real
Daryl Gregory,
American science fiction, fantasy and comic book author,
- Public Event
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
What is Color?
Delanie J. Linden,
Anne Rothenberg Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Visual Culture,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Neural Nets as a Model of "Knowing How"
Kenny Easwaran,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of California, Irvine,
Saturday, November 15th, 2025
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Competing for Attention: Quality Provision in Digital Markets
Odilon Camara,
Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Mini-Symposium
Emerging approaches for studying human cognition in health and disease
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Experiments on Monotonicity and Complexity
John Rehbeck,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Ohio State University,
Thursday, November 20th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience Seminar
How flies learn to engage with objects and one another
Friday, November 21st, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Strategically robust game theory via optimal transport
Nicolas Lanzetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Tax Preferences and Housing Affordability: Explorations using a Life-Cycle Model
Michael Keane,
Professor of Economics,
Carey Business School,
John Hopkins University,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Ballots Beyond Borders: A Conversation on Military & Overseas Voting
Casandra Hockenberry,
Program Manager,
Overseas Voting Initiative; The Council of State Governments,
Paul Lux,
Supervisor of Elections,
Okaloosa County, Florida; Member, Overseas Voting Initiative Working Group,
Hilary Rudy,
Deputy State Elections Director,
Colorado Secretary of State's Office; Member, Overseas Voting Initiative Working Group,
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Labor Market Conflict and Technical Change: The Impact of the Legalization of Unions on the Industrial Revolution
Jeremiah Dittmar,
Associate Professor of Economics,
The London School of Economics & Political Science,
Friday, December 5th, 2025
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, December 6th, 2025
Monday, December 8th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Seminar
Chaos and Coherence in the New Administrative Law
Daniel B. Rodriguez,
Harold Washington Professor of Law,
Pritzker School of Law,
Northwestern University,
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
Ernesto Dal Bo,
Phillip Girgich Professor of Business,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S.
Ellora Derenoncourt,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,