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Winter 2016-2017
Sunday, January 1st, 2017
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Monday, January 2nd, 2017
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Giving Effective Feedback on Student Writing: What Do Caltech Students Do with Professors' Comments on Their Writing?
Susanne Hall,
Campus Writing Coordinator in the Hixon Writing Center and Lecturer in Writing,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Rosemary Challis,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Ryan Cho,
Graduate Student,
Computation and Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technology,
J. Elliott Robinson, M.D.,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
4:00pm
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Job Market Talk: Ahrash Dianat
Equilibrium Selection in the Stable Marriage Problem: Experimental Evidence
Ahrash Dianat,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics at the Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL),
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Talk: Taisuke Imai
Estimating Time Preferences from Budget Set Choices Using Optimal Adaptive Design
Taisuke Imai,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Behavioral & Experimental Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, January 20th, 2017
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
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TO BE RESCHEDULED | Philosophy Job Candidate
Moral Responsibility & Implicit Bias
Dylan Murray,
PhD Candidate,
UC Berkeley ,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Machines and Vision
Daniel Landau,
Artist; Senior Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel; PhD Researcher,
Alto University Media Lab, Helsinki,
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Janet Vertesi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology,
Princeton University,
Friday, January 27th, 2017
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Iberian Voyages of Discovery and the Origin of Modern Science: A Geological Perspective
Walter Alvarez,
Professor of the Graduate School,
Earth and Planetary Science Department,
University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, February 6th, 2017
4:00pm
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Philosophy Job Candidate
Three Obstacles to the Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory
Michael Miller,
PhD Candidate,
Department of History and Philosophy,
University of Pittsburgh,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
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Philosophy Job Candidate
Equivalent and Inequivalent Formulations of Classical Mechanics
Thomas Barrett,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Philosophy,
Princeton University,
Monday, February 13th, 2017
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CNS Seminar
Organization and Control of Hippocampal Circuits
Ivan Soltesz,
James R. Doty Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Philosophy Job Candidate
Moral Responsibility & Implicit Bias
Dylan Murray,
PhD Candidate,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
12:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Vinny Augustine,
Graduate Student,
Computation and Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technology,
Sangjun Lee,
Graduate Student,
Neurobiology,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Job Market Talk: Tatiana Mayskaya
Dynamic Choice of Information Sources
Tatiana Mayskaya,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, February 17th, 2017
12:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Building a New Imperial State: Agency Problems and Separation of Powers in English North America
Sean Gailmard,
Professor,
Travers Department of Political Science,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Species Problem Problem and the No Solution Solution
Matt Haber,
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The End of the Modern Corporation: Deregulation and Ownership of Electric Utilities
Howard Rosenthal,
Professor of Politics,
New York University,
Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Polarization and Pandering in Common-value Elections
Joseph McMurray,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Brigham Young University ,
Monday, February 27th, 2017
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
The structure of the mechano-tactile input to the rat vibrissal system
Mitra J.Z. Hartmann,
Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,
Northwestern University,
6:00pm
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
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Finance Seminar: Nicolae Gârleanu, UC Berkeley
Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth
Nicolae Gârleanu,
Professor of Finance,
Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Yu Cheng, USC
Computational Aspects of Optimal Information Revelation
Yu Cheng,
Graduate Student,
CS Theory Group,
USC,
Monday, March 6th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Bayesian Estimation of the Heuristic Switching Model
Mikhail Anufriev,
Associate Professor,
Economics Discipline Group,
University of Technology, Sydney,
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro History Seminar
The Expenses of Sovereignty: Federal Finance, Dependence, and Allegiance in the Early U.S. Territories
Greg Ablavsky,
Assistant Professor of Law,
Stanford Law School,
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
12:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Risk Aversion as a Perceptual Bias
Michael Woodford,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
Friday, March 10th, 2017
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Optimal Schedules for Security Games
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience
Russell Poldrack,
Albert Ray Lang Professor ,
Psychology and (by Courtesy) Computer Science,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Yatang Li,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Kyu Hyun Lee,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
Dawna Bagherian,
Graduate Student,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Early Detection of Gravitational Waves: A Historical Account
Virginia Trimble,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Policy Diffusion and Crafted Political Talk
Fred Boehmke,
Director of Graduate Studies,
University of Iowa,
Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Rules and Commitment in Communication
Guillaume Frechette,
Professor, Department of Economics, New York University; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Thursday, March 16th, 2017
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience and Economics Seminar
Pairwise Attribute Normalization: A neuroeconomic theory of multi-attribute choice
Ryan Webb,
Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Visiting Associate, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,