Calendar
Winter 2014-2015
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
12:00pm
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Graduate Student Job Market Seminar
Voter Turnout and Communication: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Kirill Pogorelskiy,
Graduate Student,
HSS,
Caltech,
Monday, January 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural Signals for Memory and Space in the Primate Medial Temporal Lobe
Elizabeth Buffalo,
Associate Professor,
Physiology and Biophysics,
University of Washington School of Medicine,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, January 16th, 2015
10:00am
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11:30am
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MTI Working Group: Lindsay O'Neill
Burn This Letter: The Quirks of the Material Letter
Lindsay O'Neill,
History Department, USC,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Graduate Student Job Market Seminar
A Revealed Preference Measure of Stability in Social and Economic Networks
Khai Xiang Chiong,
Graduate Student,
HSS,
Caltech,
Monday, January 26th, 2015
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Analog and Stochastic Computation in Living Cells and Supercomputing Chips
Rahul Sarpeshkar,
Professor,
RLE,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial / History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Credit, Thanks, and Blame in Print: the Strategies of Conrad Gesner (1516-65)
Ann Blair,
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Automata
Joel Burdick,
Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Daniel Martinez,
Artist, UC Irvine,
Eddo Stern,
Artist, UCLA,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Job Candidate Seminar
Complicated Matters: Law, Commerce, and Collective Responsibility on Qing China's Southwestern Frontier (1750-1850)
Maura Dykstra,
2014-2015 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow,
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,
Harvard University,
Thursday, January 29th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
A Speculative Asset Pricing Model of Financial Instability
Lawrence Jin,
Ph.D. Candidate in Financial Economics, Yale School of Management,
Friday, January 30th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Job Candidate Seminar
China's War on Smuggling: Law, Sovereignty, and State Power, 1928-1937
Philip Thai,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History,
Northeastern University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Internal-External Liquidity Feedbacks
Francesca Zucchi,
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, Swiss Finance Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Knowledge Society as a Practical Utopia and its Hidden Impact on Higher Education
Liviu Matei,
Provost and Pro-Rector; Professor in the Department of Public Policy ,
Central European University,
Thursday, February 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
A Random-Field Approach to Inference in Large Models of Network Formation
Michael Leung,
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
Friday, February 6th, 2015
12:30pm
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2/7
8:00am
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All-UC Economic History Group/Caltech Conference
Unequal Chances and Unequal Outcomes in Economic History
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Detachable Pockets and Epistolary Narrative: Material Spaces of Interiority in Samuel Richardson's Pamela
Julie Park,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Expecting the Fed
Anna Cieslak,
Assistant Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
Friday, February 13th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Isaac and Diana's Doves: Newton's Transformation of Philalethan Alchemy
William R. Newman,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in History, Caltech,
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Boundedly Rational Backward Induction
Shaowei Ke,
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, Princeton University,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Stable Matching Under Forward-Induction Reasoning
Luciano Pomatto,
PhD Candidate,
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, February 19th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Hidden Rust Models
Benjamin Connault,
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, Princeton University,
Monday, February 23rd, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Towards Model-Based and Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation
Caleb Kemere,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Rice University,
Thursday, February 26th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED: Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Lisa Barrett,
University Distinguished Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Northeastern University,
Friday, February 27th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Wandering Scot: A Cultural Agent in Seventeenth Century Europe
Stefano Gattei,
Assistant Professor, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, March 2nd, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Collective computation in nonlinear networks and the grammar of evolvability
Jean-Jacques Slotine,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Informative Cheap Talk in Elections
Navin Kartik,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Remote Sensing
Scott Davidoff,
Human Interfaces Group, JPL,
Steve Rowell,
Artist, Curator, Researcher,
Jason Weems,
Art History Professor, UC Riverside,
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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NEW SPEAKER: Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The power of expectations: examples in visual perception and decision-making
Peggy Seriès,
Lecturer, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh,
Friday, March 6th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED!!! Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dead Letters on Galileo's Sunspots
Eileen Reeves,
Associate Member of the Program in the History of Science,
Princeton University,
Monday, March 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Learning of invariant representations in visual cortex: i-theory
Tomaso Poggio,
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, McGovern Institute, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Brain Science Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
On Not Being Someone Else: A Letter to My Sister
Andrew H. Miller,
Professor of English,
Indiana University,
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Luke Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
Intangible capital and the investment-q relation
Luke Taylor,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Broad Terms and Organizational Codes
Joel Sobel,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC San Diego,
Friday, March 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Price Contagion through Balance Sheet Linkages
Agostino Capponi,
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University,
Monday, March 16th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Optimal Sup-norm Rates, Adaptive Estimation, and Inference in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation
Timothy Christensen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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MTI Working Group Talk: Melissa Lo
Huntington Library, Seaver Classroom 3
'Proper Coordinates' and Dynamic Histories: Books, Scribbles, Things, and Ideas at the Huntington's Burndy Library
Melissa Lo, Assistant Curator of the Dibner Collections at the Huntington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Politics and Administration
Michael M. Ting,
Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs,
Department of Political Science,
Columbia University,
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Patience and the Wealth of Nations
Armin Falk,
Director, Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn,
Friday, March 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Neural Circuits for Elementary Motion Detection
Alexander Borst,
Director,
Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology,
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology,
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication
Kwabena Boahen,
Professor,
Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering,
Stanford,