Calendar
Winter 2012-2013
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Exploration for Human Capital: Theory and Evidence from the MBA Labor Market
Camelia M. Kuhnen,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Asymmetric Learning from Financial Information
Camelia M. Kuhnen,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
Monday, January 14th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Lee E. Miller,
Professor in Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Neuroscience,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Market for OTC Credit Derivatives (joint with Andy Atkeson and Andrea Eisfeldt)
Pierre-Olivier Weill,
Associate Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Information Revelation in Competitions with Common and Private Values
Xu Tan,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Strategic Learning and the Topology of Social Networks (Joint work with Elchanan Mossel and Allan Sly)
Omer Tamuz,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Weizmann Institute, Israel,
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Optimal Stopping with Private Information (joint work with Thomas Kruse)
Phillip Strack,
Ph.D Candidate in Mathematics and Economics,
Bonn Graduate School of Economics,
Friday, January 25th, 2013
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, January 28th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Decision Making
David Freeman,
Ph.D.,
Neurobiology,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Bargaining with Asymmetric Information: an Empirical Study of Plea Negotiations
Bernardo S. da Silveira,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Earnest C. Watson Lecture
For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past
Tracy K. Dennison,
Professor of Social Science History,
Caltech,
Monday, February 4th, 2013
10:00am
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10:00am
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Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Nadine Dabby,
Computation and Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Model of Persuasion with Boundedly Rational Agents
Ariel Rubinstein,
Department of Economics,
University of Tel Aviv / New York University,
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Event
THE MATHEMATICS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Thinking Nature and Talking Counterfactuals
Judea Pearl,
Depts. of Computer Science and Statistics,
UCLA,
Monday, February 11th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Gabriel Kreiman,
Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Final Passages: Slave Trafficking from the Caribbean to North America
Gregory E. O'Malley,
Assistant Professor of History,
UC Santa Cruz,
Friday, February 15th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Model Gettier Cases and Metacognition
Jennifer Nagel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Toronto,
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Slavery's Scientific Management: Plantation Accounts in Antebellum America
Caitlin C. Rosenthal,
Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History,
Harvard Business School,
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Thomas Jefferson and the Meaning of Religious Freedom
John A. Ragosta,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Hamilton College,
Monday, February 25th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Individual Investors' Trading in Times of Crisis: Going it Alone or Giving Up?
Martin Weber,
Chair, Department of Business, Administration, Finance,
University of Mannheim,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Michael Mauk,
Professor in Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Neurobiology,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Friday, March 1st, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation
Paolo Pin,
Department of Political Economics,
University of Siena, Italy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Locating the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century: The Collections of R.-A. F. de Réaumur
Mary Terrall,
Professor of History,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Ancestry Matters: Socioeconomic Determinants of Descent Line Growth and Extinction in Qing (1644-1911) China (joint work with Xi Song and James Z. Lee)
Cameron Campbell,
Professor,
Department of Sociology,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Partial Ambiguity
Chew Soo Hong,
Department of Economics,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cell type specific computations in retina and cortex
Botond Roska,
Senior Group Leader,
FMI, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Topic to be Announced
Odilon Camara,
University of Southern California,
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Inference On Treatment Effects After Selection Amongst High-Dimensional Controls
Victor Chernozhukov,
Professor of Econometrics,
Department of Economics, Operations Research Center,
MIT,
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Ordering Ambiguous Acts
Sujoy Mukerji,
Department of Economics,
Oxford University,
Friday, March 8th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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This Seminar has been cancelled - Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Bohr's Invention of the Quantum Atom: A Fresh Look via Newly Available Material
John Heilbron,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
Monday, March 11th, 2013
4:00pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Jack Gallant,
Professor in Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Psychology,
University California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Institutional Choices and House of Commons Debate, 1832-1915 (joint with Andrew Eggers)
Arthur Spirling,
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences,
Department of Government,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Query Theory: A Process Account of Preference Construction
Elke Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business; Eric Johnson, Norman Eig Professor of Business,
Columbia Business School ,
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Seminar: Behavioral Social Neuroscience (BSN) Seminar and Bray Theory Workshop
Efficient Perceptual Coding and Reference-Dependent Choice
Michael Woodford,
Columbia University,
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
When Thoughts Become Actions - Imaging in Disorders of Consciousness
Adrian Owen,
Senior Scientist/Assistant Director,
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
University of Cambridge,
Friday, March 15th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Aspects of Mathematical Explanation
Marc Lange,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Monday, March 18th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Credibility of Confidence Sets in Nonstandard Econometric Problems (with Ulrich Muller)
Andriy Norets,
Assistant Professor,
Economics Department,
Princeton University,
Monday, March 25th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dissecting the Fabric of the Neocortex
Andreas Tolias,
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Department of Neuroscience,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
2:15pm
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2:15pm
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