Calendar
Spring 2009-2010
Monday, March 29th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Dana Angluin,
professor of computer science,
Yale University,
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
An Alternative Approach to ML Estimation of Multinomial Choice Models of Voting
Alexey V. Zakharov,
Assistant Professor,
State University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Fiction and Scientific Modeling
Roman Frigg,
senior lecturer in philosophy,
London School of Economics,
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Oligopoly Pricing in Congested Markets
Emerson Melo,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Ancient Greek Atomism and the Mechanical Philosophy
Sylvia Berryman,
associate professor of philosophy,
University of British Columbia,
Monday, April 5th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
How to Save the Voting Rights Act from the Roberts Court
J. Morgan Kousser,
Professor of History and Social Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Screening with an Approximate Type Space
Kristof Madarasz,
assistant professor of managerial economics,
MES, STICERD,
London School of Economics,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Matching with Trade-offs: Revealed Preferences Over Competing Characteristics
Alfred Galichon,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Social Cognition and Decision Making Impairments in Psychopathy: The Roles of the Amygdala and vmPFC
James Blair,
National Institute of Mental Health,
Monday, April 12th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Genetics and Immunology of Narcolepsy and Hypocretin
Emmanuel Mignot,
professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Deliberately Incomplete Press Censorship
Peter Lornetzen,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Dynamic Incentive Accounts
Tomasz Sadzik,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Simplicity in the Copernican Revolution: Galileo, Descartes, and Newton
David B. Wilson,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Mental State Reasoning for Estabishing Innocence and Guilt
Liane Young,
postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences,
MIT,
Friday, April 16th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Distance-dependent Kronecker Graphs for Modeling Social Networks
Elizabeth Bodine-Baron,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Monday, April 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Normalization Model of Attention
David Heeger,
professor of psychology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Comparing Several Models of Stochastic Choice Under Risk
Nathaniel T. Wilcox,
professor of economics,
Economic Science Institute,
Chapman University,
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Computing Market Equilibria versus How Markets Really Work
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments
Erik Snowberg,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of Dictatorships
Alexander Debs,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Yale University,
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Combinatorial Voting
David Ahn,
Department of Economics,
University of California, Berkeley,
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Dynamics of Decision Making: Optimality, Human Performance and the Competing Accumulator Model
James L. McClelland,
professor of psychology,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 30th, 2010
12:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Why Aren't Choices Instantaneous?: Modeling How Looking Patterns Guide the Computation and Comparison of Utility
Ian Krajbich,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Desire Constrained: Sexual Politics and the Miraculous in Fourteenth-Century Avignon
Katie E. Clark,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in History,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
How Does Life Settlement Affect the Primary Life Insurance Market? (with Edward Kung)
Hanming Fang,
Department of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Primate Vocal Communication: Linking Signalers and Receivers Through Coupled Oscillations
Asif A. Ghazanfar,
associate professor,
Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology,
Princeton University,
Friday, May 7th, 2010
9:00am
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Francis Bacon Conference
How the Cold War Transformed Science
Naomi Oreskes,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Dynamic Decision Models: Identification and Estimation
Matthew Shum,
Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Understanding the Neural Networks of Attention: a New Global Player in Inferotemporal Cortex?
Winrich Freiwald,
assistant professor of neural systems,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Understanding Machine Tool Development in the United States: Uniting Economic and Business History
Ross Thomson,
associate professor of economics,
University of Vermont,
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Exploiting Friends and Neighbors: An Instrumental Variable Approach to Estimating Coattail Effects
Marc Meredith,
Assistant Professor of Political Science ,
University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Expected Uncertain Utility and Multiple Sources
Wolfgang Pesendorfer,
Economics Department,
Princeton University,
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
What is a Clever Object?
Matthew C. Hunter,
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Art History,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Emotion and Attention in the Primate Amygdala: Neural and Autonomic Correlates
Katalin Gothard,
associate professor of physiology,
University of Arizona,
Friday, May 14th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits
David Yu Zhang,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
A Simple Optimal Power Flow Model with Energy Storage (with K. Mani Chandy, Ufuk Topcu and Huan Xu)
Steven Low,
Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Monday, May 17th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Probing the Natural Scene by Echolocation in Bats
Cynthia Moss,
professor of psychology,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Partial Identification and Confidence Sets for Functionals of the Joint Distribution of Potential Outcomes
Fan Yanqin,
professor of economics,
Vanderbilt University,
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Identification Regions in Models with Convex Predictions: Games, Individual Choice, and Incomplete Data
Francesca Molinari,
associate professor of economics,
Cornell University,
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Of Trolleys and Cheaters: Automatic and Controlled Processes in Moral Judgment
Joshua Greene,
assistant professor of psychology,
Harvard University,
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences
James Andreoni,
Professor of Economics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
War, Gin and Governmentality: the British Experience, 1748–1754
Nicholas Rogers,
professor of history,
York University, Canada,
Friday, May 21st, 2010
12:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Specification, Design and Verification of Embedded Control Systems: Application to an Autonomous Vehicle
Nok Wongpiromsarn,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Twilight of the Setter? Local School Finance in a Time of Institutional Change (joint work with Sean Corcoran, NYU and Thomas Romer, Princeton)
Howard Rosenthal,
Visiting Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neocortical Contributions to Individual Orienting Decisions in the Rat
Carlos Brody,
professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,
Friday, May 28th, 2010
9:00am
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5:00pm
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The Mellon Conference
The Mellon Conference 2010—The Temper of Evidence II
Mordechai Feingold,
professor of history,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Mechanism Design for Behavioral Agents
Mohamed Mostagir,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,