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Spring 2012-2013
Monday, April 1st, 2013
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
A Theory of Political and Economic Cycles
Pierre Yared,
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Business, Columbia University,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Recursive Stochastic Choice
Drew Fudenberg,
Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Harvard University,
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Decision Making in a Physical World of Bodies, Action and Objects
Scott Grafton,
Professor of Psychology,
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 5th, 2013
9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Authorship Dilemma: Alphabetical or Contribution?
Margareta Ackerman,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for the Mathematics of Information,
EAS,
Caltech,
Monday, April 8th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Accountability, Authority and Media
Cesar Martinelli,
Professor of Economics,
ITAM (Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico),
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Subjective Timing of Randomization and Ambiguity
Kota Saito,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Ontogenetic Changes in the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Motivation, Exploration and Learning: Insights from the Adolescent Brain
Adriana Galvan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
UCLA, Brain Research Institute,
Friday, April 12th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Price of Collusion in Series-Parallel Networks
Umang Bhaskar,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
What Entanglement Might be Telling US: Quantum Mechanics, Individuation, and Space-Time
Jenann Ismael,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Arizona,
Monday, April 15th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Imaging neural ensembles during learning
Takaki Komiyama,
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology/Neurosciences,
University California, San Diego,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The Tree of Life: Metaphor, Models, and Reality
Joel Velasco,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Revealed-Preference Theory of Sequential Rationality
Marciano Siniscalchi,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Multisensory Mechanisms of Body Self-Perception
Henrik Ehrsson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience ,
Karolinska Institutet,
Friday, April 19th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Empirical Implications of Rank in Bimatrix Games
Siddharth Barman,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematic of Information,
EAS,
Caltech,
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Bence Olveczky,
Assistant Professor,
Neuroscience,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Do Elected Councils Improve Governance Outcomes? Experimental Evidence on Local Institutions in Afghanistan (Joint with Andrew Beath and Fotini Christia)
Ruben Enikolopov,
Nordea Assistant Professor of Finance,
The New Economic School (NES),
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Preplay Commitment in First-price Auctions
Yunjian Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Cener for the Mathematics of Information,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Conflict and the Evolution of Societies
David K. Levine,
The John H. Biggs Distinguished Prof. of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Washington University in St. Louis ,
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The Neurophysiology of Decision-Making in the Foraging Rat
David Redish,
Department of Neuroscience,
University of Minnesota,
Friday, April 26th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
All Men Are Created Unequal -- A Wiser Wisdom of the Crowd
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
EAS,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Divided Majority and Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment
Laurent Bouton,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Boston University,
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
On Blame and Reciprocity: Theory and Experiments
Andrew Schotter,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Self-Control Failure and Its Repair in Addiction
Warren Bickel,
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
Aesthetic Misbehavior in Medieval Drama
Andrea Denny-Brown,
Associate Professor of English,
University of California, Riverside,
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Mechanics of Romantic Thinking: Point and Lever Circa 1800
Jocelyn Holland,
Associated Professor,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, May 6th, 2013
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Evaluating Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap: A Unified Econometric Approach with Microfoundations
Brian Knight,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Stochastic Choice and Hedging (joint project with Marina Agranov)
Pietro Ortoleva,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
11:00am
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12:30pm
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4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Decentralized Exchange
Marzena Rostek,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression
Steve Cole,
Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
UCLA School of Medicine,
Friday, May 10th, 2013
9:00am
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5/11
5:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
All Men Are Created Unequal -- A Wiser Wisdom of the Crowd
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
EAS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Leverage and Beliefs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Amsterdam Repo Market (joint w/ Hans-Joachim Voth)
Peter Koudijs,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Monday, May 13th, 2013
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural substrates of memory
Loren M. Frank,
Associate Professor,
UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience Department of Physiology,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Sunk Cost Fallacy in Driving the World's Costliest Cars
Teck-Hua Ho,
William Halford, Jr. Family Chair in Marketing,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Poverty and Self-Control
B. Douglas Bernheim,
Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in Economics,
Stanford University,
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Prenatal Exposure to Testosterone Reduces the Gender Gap in Financial Risk Taking
Henrik Cronqvist,
McMahon Family Chair in Corporate Finance and George R. Roberts Fellow; Associate Professor of Financial Economics,
Claremont McKenna College,
Robert Day School of Economics and Finance,
Friday, May 17th, 2013
9:00am
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5:45pm
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to build one
Michael D. Mauk,
Professor,
Department of Neuroscience,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Ideology and Nationalism in Basque Parliamentary Elections
Stephen Ansolabehere,
Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William and Myrtle Harris Seminar on Science and Civilization
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
Andrew Robinson,
Author and Journalist,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Truthful Equilibria in Dynamic Bayesian Games
Johannes Horner,
Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
Friday, May 24th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Individual Preferences for Privacy
Rachel Cummings,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
9:30am
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
9:30am
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