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Spring 2013-2014
Monday, March 31st, 2014
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Moral Hazard in Dynamic Risk Management (Joint with D. Possamai and N. Touzi)
Jaksa Cvitanic,
Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11
Ethan Kaplan,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Maryland,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Plague, Pollution and the Poor in late Renaissance Florence
John Henderson,
Department of History,
Birkbeck College,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Identification of Multidimensional Hedonic Models
Lars Nesheim,
Senior Research Economist,
University College London,
Friday, April 4th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Auctions with Dynamic Costly Information Acquisition
Hamid Nazerzadeh,
Assistant Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
University of Southern California,
Monday, April 7th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The Right to Be Let Alone: Late Modernist Painting's Phenomenally Private Self
Christa Robbins,
Mellon Caltech-Huntington Postdoctoral Instructor in Art History,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Demand for Crash Insurance, Intermediary Constraints, and Stock Return Predictability (joint with Hui Chen and Sophie Ni)
Scott Joslin,
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
USC Marshall School of Business,
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Recovery and Application of Greek Mathematics in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period
Noel M. Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Achieving Target Equilibria in Network Routing Games without Knowing the Latency Functions
Umang Bhaskar,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, April 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Program Working Group
Auditory Atmospherics: Noise, Environment, and Infrastructure in L.A.
Marina Peterson,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Right Type of Legislator (joint with Andrea Mattozzi)
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Circuits underlying cortical decisions
Anthony Zador,
Professor,
Biology,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Ethnic Inequality
Alberto Alesina,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Challengers as Monitors: Implications for the Incumbency Advantage and Voter Welfare
Scott Ashworth,
University of Chicago,
Friday, April 18th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Welfare-Maximizing Assignment of Agents to Hierarchical Positions (joint with Isa Hafalir)
Antonio Miralles,
Assistant Professor,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, April 21st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Collusion through Communication in Auctions (joint with Leeat Yariv)
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled - CNS Seminar
Neural circuits for sensing directional motion
Andrew Huberman,
Assistant Professor,
University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, April 24th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Gossip, Centrality, and Diffusion in Social Networks
Matthew Jackson,
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 25th, 2014
8:00am
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4/26
12:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Conformity and the Certificate of Discharge: Bankruptcy in Early Modern England
Ann M. Carlos,
Professor and Associate Dean for Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences,
Department of Economics,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Mars with Curiosity: Mapping, Trekking, Discovery
John P. Grotzinger,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 28th, 2014
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Counterfactual Inference in High-Dimensional Demand Systems
Benjamin (Ben) Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
The Organization of the Labor Market with Communication and Cognitive Skills
Aloysius Siow,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Ethnic Inequality
Alberto Alesina,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Resale-Driven Winner's Curse
Charles Z. Zheng,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of Western Ontario,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity
Jochen Braun,
Professor of Cognitive Biology,
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, German,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Cars and Civilization
Jesse H. Ausubel, Rockefeller University; Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Vienna University of Technology and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,
Thursday, May 1st, 2014
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Orbitofrontal Cortex: Beyond Value
Jonathan D. Wallis,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
9:30am
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5:00pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Workshop
BUILDING STORIES: Intersections of Writing and Architecture
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Design, Laboratory Testing, and Implementation of Large Constrained Auctions: The Victoria, Australia, Gaming Machine Auction
Charles R. Plott,
William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
Monday, May 5th, 2014
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Critical Citizenship in the Anglo-African Magazine, 1859-1860
Derrick R. Spires,
Mellon Caltech-Huntington Postdoctoral Instructor in English,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contractual Chains and Modes of Contractual Linkages
Joel Watson,
Professor of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, May 8th, 2014
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
How Multiple Forms of Learning Guide Decisions
Daphna Shohamy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Seminar
A Skilful Speaker and Agitator of the Communist Intellectual Type': How Jacob Bronowski's Wartime Security Service (MI5) File Overshadowed His Career
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for ‎Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
Friday, May 9th, 2014
9:00am
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5/10
5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for ‎Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Art of Optimizing via Simulations: Empirical Dynamic Programming
Rahul Jain,
Associate Professor, Kenneth C. Dahlberg Early Career Chair,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Monday, May 12th, 2014
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Measuring Fraud in Aid
Jean Ensminger,
Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar
Talking Sex in Early Modern England: Or, What Do Words Tell Us About the History of Sexuality?
Valerie Traub,
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Cancelled - CNS Seminar
Cancelled
Nicole Rust,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Dynamic Agenda Setting (joint with Ying Chen)
Hulya Eraslan,
Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
A Model of Choice and its Predictions
Aldo Rustichini,
University of Minnesota,
Friday, May 16th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Stability and Robustness of Dynamical Network Flows
Ketan Savla,
Assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Natural Kinds as Categorical Bottlenecks
Laura Franklin-Hall,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
New York University,
Monday, May 19th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Decentralized Bargaining: Efficiency and the Core
Matthew Elliott,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining (joint with B. Douglas Bernheim and Xiaochen Fan)
S. Nageeb Ali,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Becoming Earthlings: Citizen-Observers in Nineteenth-Century Geoscience
Deborah Coen,
Associate Professor of History,
Barnard College, Columbia University,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Ostracism
S. Nageeb Ali,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,