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March 2010
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Esther Duflo,
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Hierarchical Cheap Talk (joint with Eduardo Azevedo and Yuichiro Kamada) -- Legislative Committees as Information Intermediaries: a Unified Theory of Committee Selection and Amendment Rules (joint with Eduardo Azevedo, Yuichiro Kamada, Yuki Takag)
Attila Ambrus,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Harvard University,
Friday, March 5th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Adwords Allocation via Online Maximization of Submodular Functions
Daniel Golovin,
Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Monday, March 8th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Optogenetics: Development and Application
Karl Deisseroth,
assistant professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Juggling Tasks
Nicola Persico,
professor of economics, and professor of law and society,
New York University,
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
NOTE: THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED: How to Save the Voting Rights Act from the Roberts Court
J. Morgan Kousser,
Professor of History and Social Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Deep Learning with Multiplicative Interactions
Geoffrey Hinton,
University of Toronto,
Friday, March 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
A Genetic Basis for the Evolution of Cooperation
Christoph Adami,
Faculty Associate in Computation and Neural Systems; Lecturer in Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
A Positive Theory of Income Taxation (When Parties Focus Upon Swing and Core Voters)
John Roemer,
Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics,
Yale University,
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Transfer at C. elegans Synapses
Anusha Narayan,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty and Recursive Models of Ambiguity Aversion
Tomasz Strzalecki,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Harvard University,
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Olfactory Object Recognition and Generalization in the Insect Brain
Kai Shen,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
12:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real-Effort Tournament
Pedro Rey Biel,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Visiting Assistant Professor, Rady School of Management (UCSD),
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
A Computational Substrate For Goal-Directed Behavior
Matthew Botvinick,
Princeton Neuroscience Institute,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Prefrontal Cortex and the Evaluation of Decision Costs: Anatomy of a Cognitive Miser
Matthew Botvinick,
Princeton Neuroscience Institute,
Monday, March 29th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Dana Angluin,
professor of computer science,
Yale University,