Calendar
Winter 2013-2014
Monday, January 6th, 2014
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CNS Seminar
Dopamine, subjective value and decision making
Paul E. M. Phillips,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Pharmacology,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
JunÃpero Serra and the Spanish Craze
Richard L. Kagan,
Professor Emeritus,
Department of History,
Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
4:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar
Extractive Institutions and Gains from Trade: Evidence from Colonial French Africa
Federico Tadei,
Graduate Student,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Composable Mechanisms and Price of Anarchy in Auctions
Eva Tardos,
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science ,
Cornell University,
Monday, January 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Doing Good and Doing Evil: The Issue of Robustness
Philip Pettit,
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values,
Princeton University,
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Does the Orbitofrontal Cortex Signal Value?
Geoffrey Schoenbaum, MD, Phd,
Cellular Neurobiology Research Branch, Behavioral Neurophysiology Research Section,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Throwaway Society? A New Look at the History of Waste and Wasting in Modern and Contemporary History
Frank Trentmann,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech,
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology,
Birkbeck College, University of London,
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Mechanisms and Consequences of Individual Variation in Value Based Learning
Catherine Hartley,
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry,
Weill Medical College of Cornell University,
Friday, January 24th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Surveying and selling: Belief and Surplus Extraction in Auctions
Benjamin A Brooks,
Graduate Student,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, January 27th, 2014
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Friday, January 31st, 2014
2:30pm
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Social Sciences Event
Inferring Time-Varying Boundaries for Diffusion Models of Decision Making and Response Time
Shunan Zhang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Cognitive Science,
University of California, San Diego,
Monday, February 3rd, 2014
4:00pm
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Humanities Event
MTI Presentation: Playing with Fire: Lava, Politics and the Circulation of Vesuvian Minerals in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
John Brewer,
Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences; Professor of History and Literature,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
4:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Dynamic Delegation of Experimentation
Yingni Guo,
Graduate Student,
Department of Economics,
Yale Univeristy,
Thursday, February 6th, 2014
4:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design
Alexey Kushnir,
Senior Research Associate,
University of Zürich,
Friday, February 7th, 2014
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Humanities Job Candidate Seminar
Building Citizenship / Building the City: Connecting the Social Histories of New Deal Policy and Popular Participation in New York, 1933-1945
Mason Williams,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of History,
New-York Historical Society and Eugene Lang College, The New School,
Monday, February 10th, 2014
10:30am
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Cancelled CNS Seminar
Tomaso Poggio,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Galileo and Descartes on Copernicanism and the Cause of the Tides
Tad Schmaltz,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Measuring Freedom in Games
Hendrik Rommeswinkel,
Visiting Student Researcher in Philosophy and Economics,
Humanitites and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, February 14th, 2014
4:00pm
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Humanities Job Candidate Seminar
Louis Napoleon's Secret Service: Gradual Emancipation and the Origins of the Lemmon Slave Case (1852)
Sarah Levine-Gronningsater,
Graduate Student,
Department of History,
University of Chicago,
Friday, February 21st, 2014
4:00pm
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Humanities Job Candidate Seminar
Some Kind Of Justice: African Americans in Court from Slavery to Civil Rights
Melissa Milewski,
ACLS New Faculty Fellow,
Department of History,
Columbia University,
Monday, February 24th, 2014
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Memory search: relating cognitive theory and neural data
Michael Kahana,
Professor,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, February 28th, 2014
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Reclaiming a New World: Fen Drainage, Improvement, and Projectors in 17th-century England
Eric H. Ash,
Associate Professor of History, Wayne State University,
Dibner Research Fellow at the Huntington Library,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, March 3rd, 2014
4:00pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Program Working Group
Huntington Library
Alpine Skeletons: Marsden Hartley Silverpoints
James Glisson,
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Persuading Voters
Odilon Camara,
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
University of Southern California,
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Computational Heuristics in Planning
Quentin Huys,
University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich,
Friday, March 7th, 2014
7:30pm
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
Camilo Garcia-Jimeno,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Kepler's Disputation on Copernicus's Opinions, his Earliest (Somewhat) Scientific Work
Noel Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neuroimaging Genetic Biomarkers of Addiction
Elliot A. Stein,
National Institute of Drug Abuse,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
John Trevisa and Late Medieval Literary Encyclopedism
Emily Steiner,
Department of English,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, March 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Insider Trading and Multidimensional Private Information
Tomasz Sadzik,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection
Werner Troesken,
Department of Economics,
University of Pittsburgh,
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Should We Bother Teaching Economic Ethics?
James Konow,
Chair of Economics & Ethics, Kiel University,
Professor of Economics, Loyola Marymount University,
Friday, March 21st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
On the Hardness of Signaling
Shaddin Dughmi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
Monday, March 24th, 2014
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CNS Seminar
Computational Connectomics: Mapping and Modeling Complex Brain Networks
Olaf Sporns,
Professor,
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Watching a Renaissance Cartographer at Work: The Construction of Waldseemüller's Carta marina (1516)
Chet Van Duzer,
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC,