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Winter 2015-2016
Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
12:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Long Cai's Lab Presenting
Justin Lomont,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Sheel Shah,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics ,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 7th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cognitive Neuroscience Job Candidate Seminar
Ecological approaches to social and affective neuroscience
Dean Mobbs,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Columbia University,
Monday, January 11th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Arithmetic and neural circuits underlying dopamine reward prediction errors
Naoshige Uchida,
Professor,
Center for Brain Science / Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Candidate Seminar
Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms
Shengwu Li,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
Thursday, January 14th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Candidate Seminar
A Theory of Stability in Dynamic Matching Markets
Laura Doval,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Friday, January 15th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Philosophy Job Candidate
Toward an Understanding of Parochial Observables
Benjamin Feintzeig,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
University of California, Irvine,
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Philosophy Job Candidate
Kin Selection and the Evolution of Altruism in Human Populations
Hannah Rubin,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, January 21st, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Alia creatura, ut ukofb: Riddles, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutics of Faith in Early Medieval England
Ben Saltzman,
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Medieval British Literature,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, January 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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Economics Job Candidate Seminar
Gradual Adjustment and Equilibrium Uniqueness under Noisy Monitoring
Ryota Iijima,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Gesture Recognition
Pamela Z,
Composer/Performer/Media Artist,
Morteza Gharib,
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories; Vice Provost,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 28th, 2016
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
Between the Archives and the Athenaeum: Caltech as Living History
Daniel J. Kevles,
Stanley Woodward Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University; J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus,
Friday, January 29th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Philosophy Job Candidate
Classical Black Holes Are Hot
Erik Curiel,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
Monday, February 1st, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Studying social interactions and their neural modulation in primates
Ziv Williams,
Associate Professor,
MGH,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Candidate Seminar
Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study
Tobias Salz,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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MTI Talk: Catherine Hess
Giambologna (1529-1608): The first modern sculptor?
Catherine Hess,
Chief Curator of European Art,
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens,
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Thad Lindsay,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Peter Weir,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Irene Kim,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Genre and the Longue Durée
Lauren Goodlad,
Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, February 4th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication in Flies
Mala Murthy,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton Neuroscience Institute,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Persistence of Power: Dynamic Multilateral Bargaining
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
9:00am
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2/23
5:00pm
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Einstein Seminar: Hanoch Gutfreund
The Genesis of General Relativity: Documented and Visualized
Hanoch Gutfreund,
Andre Aisenstadt Chair in Theoretical Physics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality Since 1700
Peter Lindert,
Distinguished Professor of Economics,
University of California, Davis,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, February 22nd, 2016
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural coding of space and time in entorhinal cortex
Michael Hasselmo,
Director,
Center for Systems Neuroscience,
Boston Univeristy,
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
5:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
Body of Evidence: Tracing Photographic Identity in Victorian Law and Popular Culture
Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History and Science in Society, Wesleyan University,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Information Systems and Culture
Ricardo Dominguez,
Artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts,
UCSD,
Keller Easterling,
Writer, Architect, and Professor in the Yale School of Architecture,
K. Mani Chandy,
Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Mechanics as Classical Physics
Chip Sebens, Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in the History and Philosophy of Physics, Caltech,
Friday, February 26th, 2016
9:00am
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 29th, 2016
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Average Luce Model
Kota Saito,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
12:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Shijia Chen,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Daniel A. Lee,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Larry Abbott - Special Seminar in Computational Neuroscience
Sense from Randomness in Neural Circuits
Larry Abbott,
William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience,
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Stability, Strategy-proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms
Alexander Westkamp, Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University,
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
A Bayesian Approach to Internal Models: Of Ferret and Men
Máté Lengyel,
Reader in Computational Neuroscience,
Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
Friday, March 4th, 2016
12:00pm
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Monday, March 7th, 2016
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Results of Pure Replication of Economics Lab Experiments and their Peer-Predictability
Colin Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine
Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
David Hirshleifer,
Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics,
University of California, Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neural Mechanisms in the Amygdala for Innate, Learned and Regulated Emotional Behavior
Daniel Salzman,
Professor,
Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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3/12
5:00pm
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General Relativity at One Hundred: The Sixth Biennial Bacon Conference
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Friday, March 11th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Robert Kleinberg, Cornell
Inference-Based Privacy Guarantees for Differentially Private Mechanisms, or: The Physics of Differential Privacy
Robert Kleinberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University,
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Field Theory and the Limits of Knowledge
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
Friday, March 18th, 2016
9:00am
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