Calendar
Winter 2022-2023
Monday, January 9th, 2023
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Economics Job Talk
Simplicity and Risk; Bulls and Binaries
Indira Puri,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
MIT,
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Design-based Estimation Theory for Complex Experiments
Haoge Chang,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Yale University,
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
The geometry of consumer preference aggregation
Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
What Plato Can Teach Us About Livestreaming the Police; or, Five Theses on Legal Performance and Spectatorship
Julie Stone Peters,
H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University,
Friday, January 13th, 2023
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar Series: Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules | Dr. Hans Renata (Rice University)
Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules
Dr. Hans Renata,
Associate Professor,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Economics Job Talk
Non-Price Competition and Risk Selection Through Hospital Networks
Natalia Serna,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
4:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation? Evidence from the Coastal Barrier Resources System
Hannah Druckenmiller,
Fellow, Resources for the Future; Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
4:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Asset Pricing with Higher Order Beliefs
Kaushik Vasudevan,
PhD Candidate in Financial Economics,
Yale School of Management,
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
4:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Gerrymandering when Turnout Rates Differ
Allison Stashko,
Assistant Professor,
David Eccles School of Business,
University of Utah,
Friday, January 20th, 2023
4:00pm
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Humanities Talk
Functional Generalization: From Rhodopsin to Autism
Caleb Dewey,
Graduate Student,
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences,
University of Arizona,
Thursday, January 26th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
This seminar has been rescheduled to February 13, 2023.
Jennifer A. Jahner,
Professor of English,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Humanities Talk
Modeling Injustice in Epistemic Networks
Jingyi Wu,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science (LPS),
UC Irvine,
Friday, January 27th, 2023
Saturday, January 28th, 2023
8:30am
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
12:00pm
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12:55pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk
Data Science Applications to the Video Game Industry
Jonathan Lane,
Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning at Activision Publishing,
Activision,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
4:00pm
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Humanities Talk
Reframing Epistemic Partiality: Acceptance and the Cognitive Work of Friendship
Laura Soter,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Philosophy,
Duke University,
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
ARTIST TALK WITH KEARRA GOPEE
Kearra Gopee,
Anti-disciplinary Visual Artist,
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders
Luigi Zingales,
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thursday, February 9th, 2023
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists?: A Critique of Pure Reason Avant la Lettre
Dmitri Levitin,
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
Monday, February 13th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Conscience as Craft: Michael of Northgate's Experimental Temper
Jennifer A. Jahner,
Professor of English,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows
Mahyar Kargar,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Gies College of Business,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Artistic Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Helfand,
Artist, Designer, and Writer (Winter 2020 Artist in Residence),
Joanne Jang,
Product Lead,
DALL·E,
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Posterior Implementability in an N-Person Decision Problem
Axel Niemeyer,
PhD student in Economics,
University of Bonn,
Friday, February 17th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Eight Decades of Living with Nuclear Technology
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Evolution of the Chinese Firm: Contracts, Hierarchical Management, and Corporate Personality in Shanxi Merchant Enterprises
Matthew Lowenstein,
Hoover Fellow,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Almost Inhuman
Caitlin Berrigan,
Winter 2023 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Christof Koch
Building and Operating Brain Observatories – What Have We Learned?
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Tanit Talismans: Image and Gender in a 10th Century Arabic Grimoire
Margaret E. Gaida,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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HSS Graduate Students Third-Year Presentations
A Repulsive Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics in Polarized Communities
Claudia Kann,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
ARTIST TALK WITH ERIN JOHNSON
Erin Johnson,
Filmmaker, visual artist, and Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Pinocchio's Ancestry: a Social and Cultural History of Automata in the North Italian Renaissance
Cristiano Zanetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the History of Science,
Caltech,
Friday, February 24th, 2023
9:30am
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2/25
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Image Machines/Computation's Womb
Sarah Pourciau,
Assistant Professor of German,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Uncover How Players Choose Mixed Strategies
Michihiro Kandori,
Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Economics,
University of Tokyo,
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium
Thomas R. Palfrey, III,
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
9:00am
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Back to The Problem of Space
Joshua T. Eisenthal,
Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Monday, March 6th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Screening with Persuasion
Stephen Morris,
Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
MIT,
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
Frederico Finan,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, March 10th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Recommending to Strategic Users: Avoiding the Perils of Strategy-Oblivious Recommendation Algorithms
Chara Podimata,
FODSI Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley and The Simons Institute,
Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Do Insurers Do Differently Than One Another? Managed Competition and Value Added
Ben Handel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Berkeley,