Calendar
Spring 2024-2025
Monday, March 31st, 2025
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Eighteenth century color knowledge: clashes between physics, practice, and mathematics
Friedrich Steinle,
Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; President of the German Society for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology,
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
4:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
Beyond Conflict: Global Trade and Everyday Relations between China and the West, 1780-1860
Carl Kubler,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Direct Examination of Preferences for Wealth Integration
Alex Rees-Jones,
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy,
The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
"The Birth of Poetry From the Spirit of the Machine": Automatic Writing in the 1960s
Tobias Wilke,
Assistant Professor of German,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
What She Had: Women Managing Property and Confronting Financial Ruin in Mid-Qing China
Stephanie Painter,
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations,
Department of History,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Candidate Selection by Parties: Crime and Politics in India
Gergely Ujhelyi,
Professor of Economics,
University of Houston,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
The Anatomy of Honesty: Lying Aversion vs. Deception Aversion
Wooyoung Lim,
Associate Professor and Lee Heng Fellow,
Department of Economics,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Race & Ethnicity - Mortgage Markets in the 1930s
Price Fishback,
Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics,
University of Arizona,
Friday, April 4th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing
Alex Smolin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE),
Monday, April 7th, 2025
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
9:00am
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11:00am
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Panel
Online Event
Biotechnologies Beyond Conventional Containment
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
The Frigid Frontier: Weather Reporting and State Expansion in Early Modern Korea
Wenjiao Cai,
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
Georgetown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Disparities in Aid for Natural Disasters
Tatyana Deryugina,
Associate Professor of Finance,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
(Mis-)Understanding Quotas
Maria Kogelnik,
Postdoctoral Associate at the Economic Growth Center and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics,
Yale University,
Friday, April 11th, 2025
9:00am
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
4:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been postponed.
Claudio Ferraz,
Professor,
Vancouver School of Economics,
University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Optimal In-Kind Redistribution
Zi Yang Kang,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Toronto,
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
9:00am
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10:00am
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Unpacking the Implications of President Trump's Election Executive Orders
Justin Levitt,
Professor of Law and Gerald T. McLaughlin Fellow,
Loyola Law School,
Loyola Marymount University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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History Seminar
American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism
Keidrick Roy,
Junior Fellow,
Harvard Society of Fellows,
4:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Medieval Markets and Migration: Paris c. 1300
Nathan Sussman,
Full Professor, International Economics & Pictet Chair in Finance and Development,
Geneva Graduate Institute,
Friday, April 18th, 2025
10:00am
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11:15am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Structural Rationality, Strategic Reasoning, and Equilibrium
Marciano Siniscalchi,
Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Monday, April 21st, 2025
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading and Discussion
Jenny Factor,
Lecturer in Poetry,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
On Plausible Counterfactual Explanations in XAI
Jiji Zhang,
Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Declarations of Independents: Open-Ended Survey Responses and the Nature of Non-Identification
Paul Kellstedt,
Professor,
Department of Political Science, Bush School of Government and Public Service,
Texas A&M University,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
4:00pm
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Humanities Job Candidate
A Short History of (the Theory of) Everything
Alex Blum,
Research Group Leader,
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Repression and Autocratic Consolidation
Livio Di Lonardo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Social and Political Sciences,
Bocconi University,
Monday, April 28th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Essays on Political Accountability and Representation
Jacob Morrier,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Makes a World War? A Structural Analysis of Integration
Joseph Ruggiero,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
10:00am
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11:30am
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CTESS Seminar
Projective Thinking in Games
Kristóf Madarász,
Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy,
London School of Economics (LSE),
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition
Eddie Dekel,
Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
Social and economic inequality
Margherita Comola,
Associate Professor,
Paris School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing
Emmy Waldman,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation
Zhiguo He,
James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
4:00pm
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History Seminar
Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500)
Ned Schoolman,
Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
3:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2025
4:00pm
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Chen Institute Seminar: Nachum Ulanovsky
Neuroscience going wild: Neural coding in social groups of bats and in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island
Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky,
Professor of Brain Sciences and Head of the Center for Learning, Memory & Cognition,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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Social Science Talk
Empirical Analysis of Market Entry with Many Potential Entrants
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Quantifying Inefficiency
Yannai Gonczarowski,
Professor of Economics and of Computer Science,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
From Dust Worlds to Don DeLillo
Jocelyn Holland,
Professor of Comparative Literature,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk
Average Treatment Effects in Exchangeable Random Arrays
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal
Jean-Francois Houde,
Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair,
Department of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Using Organizational Flexibility: Inside the GmbH
Tim Guinnane,
Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
Monday, May 12th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Psychological Principles Underlying Bursty Power-law Activity in Human Behavior
Colin Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience,
Caltech,