Calendar
Spring 2021-2022
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Informationally Robust Bilateral Trade
Songzi Du,
Associate Professor of Economics,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identity-Based Elections
Helios Herrera,
Professor of Economics,
University of Warwick,
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Treasury Richness
Francis Longstaff,
Distinguished Professor of Finance and Allstate Chair in Insurance, Anderson School of Management,
UCLA,
Monday, April 4th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
The Origins of Legal Literature in Europe: From the Big Bang to the Formation of Multiple Galaxies
Emanuele Conte,
Professor of Legal History and Department Director of Legal History and Theory,
at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre,
Friday, April 8th, 2022
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6:30pm
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bilateral trade under no subsidies and stochastic mechanisms; Multi-trader pairwise exchange with minimal subsidies
Jernej Copic,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Does Harold Zurcher Have Time Separable Preferences?
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture: The Rhetoric of Chance in Times of Pandemic
Online and In-Person Event
Jennifer A. Jahner,
Professor of English,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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8:15pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
Art in Data: From Self-Tracking to Mass Migration
Stephen Cartwright,
Artist,
Friday, April 15th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Trimming extreme reports in preference aggregation
Matias Nuñez,
CNRS researcher at CREST and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique,
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
All Along the Watchtower: Defense Lines and the Origins of Russian Serfdom
Andrea Matranga,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Chapman University,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Comparative Statics of Persuasion
Ludvig Sinander,
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics,
University of Oxford,
Thursday, April 21st, 2022
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Tail Risk in Production Networks
Ian Dew-Becker,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
Monday, April 25th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chen Institute Women in Neuroscience (CWiN) Seminar: Bing Brunton, Moore Distinguished Scholar
Agile movement and embodied intelligence: Computational and comparative considerations
Bing Brunton,
Associate Professor, H. Stewart Parker Endowed Faculty Fellow,
University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm
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Chen Institute for Neuroscience Seminar: Anne Churchland CANCELED
Decision and movement signals in distinct classes of excitatory pyramidal cells
5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
The Sentimental Science of Modern Selfhood
Lisa Mendelman,
Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities,
Menlo College,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What History Can Tell Us About How to Assess the State of Voting Rights and How to Amend the Voting Rights Act
J. Morgan Kousser,
Professor of History and Social Science, Emeritus,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
The Shrinkage Adjusted Sharpe Ratio: An Improved Method for Mutual Fund Selection
Richard Roll,
Linde Institute Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
Friday, April 29th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Optimal allocations with capacity constrained verification
Albin Erlanson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Essex,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Organisms in the University
Bradley Bolman,
Historian of Science,
University of Chicago,
Victoria Lee,
History Assistant Professor,
Ohio University,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan,
Ph.D. candidate in Economics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
"UnRavelled"
Jake Broder,
Playwright, Actor, Composer,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
4:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Yunmi Kong,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Managing the Limits of Visualization
James Elkins,
E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory, and Criticism,
School of the Art Institute, Chicago,
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Engineering Fidelity: Early Radio and the Trautonium in Berlin in the 1920s and '30s
Myles W. Jackson,
Ph.D., Ernst & Elisabeth Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science, Institute for Advanced Study,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
UnRavelled: Understanding Dementia through Art and Science
Jake Broder,
Playwright, Actor, Composer,
Friday, May 6th, 2022
10:00am
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12:30pm
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Ethical Orientations for Collegiality, Mentoring, and Teaching
Online Event
Dr. Koritha Mitchell,
Professional development expert who centers equity and justice,
Monday, May 9th, 2022
4:00pm
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Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Seminar
Inhibitory engrams and the flexible control of cognition.
Mani Ramaswami,
Professor of Neurogenetics and Director, Trinity Institute of Neurosciences (TCIN),
Trinity College Dublin,
5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition
Congyi Zhou,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
New York University,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Partisan Traps
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita,
Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
The Impact of ETF Index Inclusion on Stock Prices
John Duffy,
Professor of Economics,
UC Irvine,
Friday, May 13th, 2022
11:00am
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Saturday, May 14th, 2022
10:00am
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2:30pm
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability
Tara Slough,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
New York University,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Recursive Differencing for Estimating Semiparametric Models
Roger Klein,
Professor of Economics,
Rutgers University,
Chan Shen,
Associate Professor,
Penn State,
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Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Friday, May 20th, 2022
2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The University in Space
Lisa Messeri,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University,
Eun-Joo Ahn,
Graduate Student, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, May 23rd, 2022
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
The Discovery of Character: Reimagining "Literature and Science" circa 1800
James Chandler,
William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago,