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Spring 2020-2021
Monday, March 29th, 2021
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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The Impact of Privacy Measures on Online Advertising Markets
Shunto Kobayashi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Optimal Auctions: Non-Expected Utility and Constant Risk Aversion
Benny Moldovanu,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Universität Bonn,
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
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Peril, Prudence and Planning as Risk, Avoidance and Worry
Peter Dayan,
Professor of Informatics, University of Tübingen; Director of the Department of Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
University of Tübingen,
Monday, April 5th, 2021
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search
Charles Hodgson,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Antonio Penta,
ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Affiliated Professor, Barcelona GSE,
Friday, April 9th, 2021
12:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Online Event
Decolonizing Deep History
Pratik Chakrabarti,
Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester; Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM),
- Public Event
Monday, April 12th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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This seminar has been canceled.
Anastasia Buyalskaya,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability
Adam Tauman Kalai,
Senior Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research,
Ehud Kalai,
James J. O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
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Rich Rocks, the Climate Crisis, and the Tech Imperium
Sophia Kalantzakos,
Visiting Fellow in the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology (2020-2021), Caltech; Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy, New York University,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
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Choosing, fast and slow: Implications of prioritized-sampling models for understanding automaticity and control
Cendri Hutcherson,
Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Decision Neuroscience,
University of Toronto,
Friday, April 16th, 2021
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
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Speculative Worlds: Imagining Past and Future Science
Aimee Bahng,
Pomona College,
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata,
University of San Francisco,
Silvia Moreno-Garcia,
Novelist,
Enid Baxter Ryce,
Cal State Monterey Bay,
Banu Subramaniam,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Lisa Weasel,
Portland State University,
Monday, April 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games
Xiaomin Li,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Efficiency with Political Power Dynamics and Costly Policy Change
Hülya Eraslan,
Ralph O'Connor Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
12:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
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Poetry Reading
Kazim Ali,
Professor of Literature, Creative Writing,
UC San Diego,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent
Itai Ashlagi,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Sunlight to Everything: Catalyzing a Sustainable Future
Online Event
Jonas Peters,
Bren Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Monday, April 26th, 2021
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Approximating Choice Data by Discrete Choice Models (with Yusuke Narita)
Kota Saito,
Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot?
Tom Clark,
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science,
Emory University,
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money (with Julien Combe, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimerk and Olivier Tercieux)
Mohammad Akbarpour,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
10:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
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Race and the brain: Insights from the neural systems of emotion and decisions
Elizabeth Phelps,
Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
12:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
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Poetry Reading
Alberto Ríos,
Writer and Poet,
- Public Event
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Rational Anabolic Persuasion
Ran Spiegler,
Professor of Economics,
Tel Aviv University & University College London,
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
12:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
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More than one sensorial modality to do mainstream science in astronomy?
Dr. Wanda Díaz-Merced,
Astronomer,
Monday, May 10th, 2021
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation
Michael Ewens,
Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Monitoring Teams
Marina Halac,
Professor of Economics and Director of Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 13th, 2021
10:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
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Neural codes in early sensory areas maximize fitness
Todd Hare,
Associate Professor of Neuroeconomics and Human Development,
University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
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Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
Hanna Rose Shell,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech (returning 2022); Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, University of Colorado-Boulder,
Monday, May 17th, 2021
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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The Law of Large Numbers for Large Stable Matchings
Jacob Schwartz,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Haifa,
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
12:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
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Poetry Reading
Adrienne Su,
Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence,
Dickinson College,
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12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market
Karam Kang,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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This seminar has been canceled.
Konstantin Sonin,
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
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Fighting the First Wave
Peter Baldwin,
Global Distinguished Professor, NYU; Professor of History, UCLA,
- Public Event
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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The Wisdom of the Crowd and Higher-Order Beliefs
Mallesh Pai,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
10:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
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Frontal circuit specialisations for decision making
Laurence Hunt,
Wellcome/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow,
Department of Psychiatry,
University of Oxford,
Friday, May 28th, 2021
12:00pm
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Two Approaches to Iterated Reasoning in Games
Amanda Friedenberg,
Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies,
University of Arizona,
Monday, June 7th, 2021
12:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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This seminar has been canceled.
Elena Manresa,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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The permissible and the forbidden
Ariel Rubinstein,
Professor of Economics,
Tel Aviv University and New York University,
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
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Deciding to stop deciding: A cortical-subcortical circuit for forming and terminating a decision
Michael Shadlen,
Professor of Neuroscience and Principal Investigator at Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,