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December 2009
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Strategic Manipulation in Representative Institutions
Elizabeth Maggie Penn,
Associate Professor of Government,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Friday, December 4th, 2009
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interactions between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 during Slow-wave Sleep
Ming Gu,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Did Darwin Write the Origin of Species Backwards?
Elliott Sober,
professor of philosophy,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Monday, December 7th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Mapping Intelligence in the Brain: A Large-scale Lesion Analysis of IQ
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Next Generation Large-Scale Chronically Implantable Precision Motorized Microdrive Arrays for Freely Behaving Animals
Jun Yamamoto,
professor of brain cognitive science,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Modeling and Representing: An Artefactual Approach to Model-based Representation
Tarja Knuuttila,
visiting associate in philosophy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Identification and Estimation of Level-k Auctions
Ben Gillen,
PhD candidate in economics,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Candidate Strategy and Voter Choice
Michael Tomz,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Maps, Connections and In-vivo Imaging in the Monkey Brain
Kadharbatcha Saleem,
researcher,
National Institute of Mental Health,
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Connectivity of the Primate Brain from Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Dirk Neumann,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neuroeconomics of Social Learning and Decision Making
Michael Platt,
professor of neurobiology and evolutionary anthropology,
Duke University,
Friday, December 11th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Methodology of Exchange Design
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, December 14th, 2009
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Generic Reinforcement Learning Agents
Marcus Hutter,
professor,
Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering,
Australian National University,
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
4:00pm
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Mellon Divisional Lecture
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Strategic Thinking
Colin F. Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics,
Caltech,