Calendar
Spring 2011-2012
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Effect of Negotiations on Bargaining in Legislatures
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Getting Easter Wrong in the Fifteenth Century, and What Is To Be Done
Noel Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Learning, Representation and Generalization of Uncertainty
Konrad Kording,
Associate Professor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Physiology,
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Afterlife of Isaac Newton: Accidents of the Archive and the History of Science
Sarah Dry,
Independent Scholar,
Monday, April 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Control of Visual Spatial Attention by Prefrontal Cortex
Tirin Moore,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurobiology and HHMI,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Substituting the End for the Whole: Why Voters Respond Primarily to the Election-Year Economy
Gabriel Lenz,
Assistant Professor of Political Behavior, American Politics,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Large-Market Rational Expectations Equibrium Model
Xavier Vives,
Professor of Economics and Finance,
IESE,
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linde Institute Distinguished Seminar
Foundations of Economic Performance – A Practitioner’s View
Gene Huang,
Chief Economist and Vice President,
FedEx,
Friday, April 13th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Analysing Alkaloids, Analysis Mania: What Liebig's 1830 Laboratory Notebook Can Tell Us About the Practice of Organic Analysis
Catherine Jackson,
Chemical Heritage Foundation,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
Dan Silverman,
Associate Professor,
University of Michigan,
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Mechanisms of Inter-Temporal Decision-Making: Trait and State Effects
Jan Peters,
Institute for Systems Neuroscience,
University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf,
Friday, April 20th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Robustness in Network Formation Game
Khai Xiang Chiong,
Graduate Student,
HSS,
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Religious Practice and Political Trust in India: Exploring the Causal Role of an Attribute
Jasjeet Sekhon,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Many-to-Many Matching Design
Alessandro Pavan,
Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Control, Learning and Exploration in Human Decision-Making
Etienne Koechlin,
Director, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, France,
Friday, April 27th, 2012
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Power of Revealed Preference Tests: Ex-Post Evaluation of Experimental Design
Benjamin Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Harnessing the Brain for Language and Music
Mark A. Changizi,
Director of Human Cognition,
2AI Labs,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop
James N. Green,
Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,
Friday, May 4th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Bargaining and Power in Networked 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
History of Science and the Historiography of Astrology
Steven Vanden Broecke,
University of Ghent,
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Re-Election Through Division
Richard Van Weelden,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Homophily in Peer Groups
Mariagiovanna Baccara,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Washington University, St. Louis,
Friday, May 11th, 2012
9:00am
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
How is Distributed Generation Stressing the Business Model of Electric Utilities?
Desmond Cai,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Rumor, Truths, and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation
Adam Berinsky,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Matching Information
Hector Chade,
Professor of Economics,
Arizona State University,
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Towards Hybrid Human-Machine Vision Systems: Image Annotation using Crowds, Experts and Machines
Peter Welinder,
graduate student,
Compuation & Neural Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Decoding and Predicting Human Decisions
John-Dylan Haynes,
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin,
Friday, May 18th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Communication with Multiple Senders and Multiple Dimensions: An Experiment
Alistair J. Wilson,
Assistant Professor,
Economics Department,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
In a Future Tense: Immigration Law, Counterfactual Histories, and Chinese Invasion
Edlie Wong,
Associate Professor of English ,
University of Maryland,
Monday, May 21st, 2012
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Incentive Compatibility, Efficiency and Network Centrality in Public Good Games
Matthew Elliott,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Neural Patterns Similarity and Visual Perception
Jonathan Harel,
Computation & Neural Systems,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Integrative Moral Cognition
Joshua Greene,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Big Science, 19th Century Style: Terrestrial Physics and the British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole
Edward J. Larson,
University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law,
Pepperdine University,
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The Biography of a Gene: Intellectual Property, HIV-AIDS, and Race in the Age of Biocapitalism
Myles W. Jackson,
Joint Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
NYU-Poly and NYU-Gallatin,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Flexible Renegotiation and Persistent Private Information
Bruno Strulovici,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
An "as-is" Model of Economic Decision Making
Ian Krajbich,
Senior Postdoc in Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, and the Foundations of Human Social Behavi,
Department of Economics,
University of Zurich, Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research,
Friday, May 25th, 2012
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Einstein-Picasso Question
Lewis Pyenson,
Professor of History,
Western Michigan University,
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship
Alexander Hirsch,
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Reputational Bargaining and Asymmetric Information
David Pearce,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
Friday, June 1st, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Diffusion of Network Goods: A Two-Sided Interaction Approach
Euncheol Shin,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Polarization-based Navigation in Drosophila
Peter Weir,
Computation & Neural Systems,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
*NOTE: THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED* Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in the Northern Labor and Housing Markets
Leah Platt Boustan,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, June 4th, 2012
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cortical inhibition and visual processing
Massimo Scanziani,
Professor,
Biology,
University of California, San Diego,