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November 2009
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Information Percolation in Segmented Markets
Gustavo Manso,
assistant professor of finance,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Coherence, Causation, and Confirmation: How the Causal Relations between Hypothesis and Evidence Matter
Richard Scheines,
professor of philosophy,
Machine Learning Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Reverse Electoral Business Cycles and the U.S. Housing Market
Brandice Canes-Wrone,
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University,
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Heterogeneous Reward Signals in Prefrontal Cortex
Jonathan Wallis,
assistant professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley ,
Friday, November 6th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Equilibrium in Financial Markets with Heterogeneous Agents
Jaksa Cvitanic,
professor of mathematical finance,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Revealing Network Neural Mechanism of Adaptive Social Behavior
Naotaka Fujii,
Laboratory for Adaptive Intelligence & BTCC Interactive Brain Communication Unit,
BSI, RIKEN,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
3:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Exploratory Behavior During A Financial Forecasting Task Points To Simulated Annealing
Peter Bossaerts,
William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management and Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Multiple Forms of Valuation in the Human Brain
Klaus Wunderlich,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
What Robotics and Control May Yet Learn from the Brain
Jean-Jacques Slotine,
professor of mechanical engineering and information science,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Do Natural Resouces Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse
Stephen Haber,
professor of political science,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Bargaining and Reputation: Experimental Evidence on Bargaining in the Presence of Irrational Types
Guillaume Frechette,
assistant professor of economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
A Regularization Approach to the Many Instruments Problem
Marine Carrasco,
associate professor of economics,
University of Montreal,
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Strategic Interaction and Networks
Rachel Kranton,
Professor of Economics,
Duke University,
Friday, November 13th, 2009
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows
John Kerrigan,
professor of English,
University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Building Babel: Rethinking the Evolution of Language
Fiona Cowie,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Case for Responsible Parties (co-authored with Dan Bernhardt and Francesco Squintani)
John Duggan,
Professor of Political Science and Economics,
Rochester University,
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Remembering Events Pasts: Conjunctions. Integration, and Errors in the Human MTL
Anthony Wagner,
associate professor of psychology,
Stanford University,
Friday, November 20th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
The Roles of Uncertainty and Randomness in Online Advertising
Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan,
Graduate Student,
EAS,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Value of Information in the Court. Get it Right, Get it Tight
Matias Iaryczower,
assistant professor of economics and political science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Anatomical, Physiological, and Pharmacological Properties Underlying Hippocampal Sensorimotor Integration
Brian Bland,
professor of psychology,
University of Calgary,