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Winter 2017-2018
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
11:30am
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Ting Hao Huang,
Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Tarciso Velho,
Visiting Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences Job Candidate Seminar
Asymmetric Information, Reputation, and Welfare in Online Credit Markets
Yi Xin,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning
Philipp Strack,
Assistant Professor,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, January 12th, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED - Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This talk has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 24, 2018.
Kirill Evdokimov,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Alexander Lipton, StrongHold Labs & MIT
Modern Monetary Circuit Theory and Stability of Financial Ecosystem
Alexander Lipton,
Founder and CEO, StrongHold Labs; Connection Science Fellow, MIT,
Friday, January 19th, 2018
10:00am
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences Job Candidate Seminar
Identification with Latent Choice Sets: The Case of the Head Start Impact Study
Vishal Kamat,
PhD Candidate,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic Epistemic Risk
Boris Babic,
Weisman Postdoctoral Scholar Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences Job Candidate Seminar
Multidimensional heterogeneity and matching in a frictional labor market
Joanne Tan,
PhD Candidate,
Sciences-Po Paris,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Inference in Instrumental Variables Analysis with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Kirill Evdokimov,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton University,
Friday, January 26th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Fitzcarraldo
Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles
Monday, January 29th, 2018
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Games and Art
Nonny de la Peña,
Founder & CEO,
Emblematic ,
Johnnemann Nordhagen,
Founder of Dim Bulb Games; Co-founder of Fullbright ,
Brian Schrank,
Professor of Game Development, Theory and Design,
Depaul University ,
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED | William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series
This talk has been cancelled.
Wim Decock,
Research Professor of Legal History, Universities of Leuven and Liège; Associate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History; Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Predicting and Understanding Initial Play
Drew Fudenberg,
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics,
MIT,
Monday, February 5th, 2018
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from the UK
Kirill Pogorelskiy,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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American History Job Candidate Seminar
Crime Capital: Public Safety, Urban Development, and Black Politics in Post-Civil Rights Atlanta
Danielle Wiggins,
PhD Candidate,
Department of History,
Emory University,
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, February 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Paul Hyams, Cornell University
House, Hand, and the Wolf's Head: Anglo-Saxon England and the Western Legal Tradition
Paul Hyams,
Professor Emeritus of History,
Cornell University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Map and Territory
Maayan Amir,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Ruti Sela,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Robert Simmon,
Senior Data Visualization Engineer,
Planet ,
Nicolas Wey-Gomez,
Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Dr. Bradley Dickerson,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Dr. Ysabel Giraldo,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Dr. Kate Leitch,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Between the Sun and the Earth: The Recent History of Heliophysics and Space Weather
Gregory Good,
Historian of Earth Science and Director of the Center for History of Physics,
American Institute of Physics,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America
Christine Filippone,
Associate Professor,
Millersville University ,
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Die Letzte Brücke
Movie screening for German 130b & 132b // In German with English subtitles
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Causal Inference through the Method of Direct Estimation
Marc Ratkovic,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Politics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Hillary Mushkin & Cavan Concannon
Tracing Lines Across the Sea: Mapping the Mediterranean
Hillary Mushkin,
Research Professor of Art and Design in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Cavan Concannon,
Assistant Professor of Religion,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Cognitive Empathy in Conflict Situations
Christoph Kuzmics,
Professor of Microeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Graz; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Thursday, March 1st, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Robert Engle, New York University
How Much SRISK is Too Much?
Robert Engle,
Michael Armellino Professor of Finance,
Stern School of Business,
New York University,
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Joint Linde Institute/SISL and Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar: Konrad Menzel, NYU
Many-Player Asymptotics for Estimating Models of Network Formation
Konrad Menzel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
Jesse Shapiro,
George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Shared Knowledge and Competition for Attention in Information Markets
Simone Galperti,
Assistant Professor of Economics, UCSD; Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University,
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Media Before Gutenberg
Ingrid Nelson,
Associate Professor of English,
Amherst College,
Monday, March 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Dr. James DiCarlo,
Peter de Florez Professor and Department Head,
Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring the solar system: Who has done it, how, and why?
Peter Westwick,
Lecturer in History, Caltech; Research Professor of History, USC; Director, Aerospace History Project, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Carey Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Sofia Sakellaridi,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Michelle Armenta,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Stein's paradox and group rationality
Jan-Willem Romeijn,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy,
University of Groningen - Netherlands,
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
'Famous Farriers I have known:' Farriery Manuals and Vernacular Expertise in Renaissance Italy
Karl Appuhn,
Associate Professor of History and Italian,
New York University,
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The Anatomy of Beliefs: Insights from Social Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry
Xiaosi Gu,
Assistant Professor,
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
University of Texas at Dallas,
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Additive-Belief-Based Preferences
David Dillenberger,
Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure),
University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
7:30pm
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Friday, March 23rd, 2018
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, March 26th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, March 29th, 2018
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, March 30th, 2018