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November 2010
Monday, November 1st, 2010
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Collective Action with Uncertain Payoffs: Coordination, Public Signals & Punishment Dilemmas
Mehdi Shadmehr,
University of Illinois,
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Interdependent Preferences and Strategic Distinguishability
Stephen Morris,
professor of economics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Professors in Prison: Privation, Publicity, and the Care of the Self
Kristine Haugen,
Assistant Professor of English,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
A General Model of Temporal Discounting Based on Two Value Systems
Samuel McClure,
assistant professor of psychology,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Pricing in Online Advertising Marketplace
Nilanjan Roy,
graduate student in humanities and social sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, November 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar
Wealth and Death in Paris 1807–1937
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,
Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor in Business Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts
Benjamin Handel,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Local Gossip and Inter-generational Family Transfers: Comparative Political Economy of Insurance Provision
Yuki Takagi,
Department of Government,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Revealed Political Power
Roger Lagunoff,
professor of economics,
Georgetown University,
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Improving Efficiency in Matching Markets with Regional Caps: The Case of the Japan Residency Matching Program
Fuhito Kojima,
assistant professor of economics,
Stanford University,
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
The Role of the Hippocampus in Generalization: Theoretical Issues and a Proposed Model
Dharshan Kumaran,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London,
Friday, November 12th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Walther Rathenau's Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul
Shulamit Volkov,
professor of modern history,
Tel Aviv University,
Monday, November 15th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Turnout and Political Polarization: How Encouraging Voting Changes Political Outcomes
Justin Valasek,
graduate student in economics,
Duke University ,
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
On Dynamic Compromise
T. Renee Bowen,
assistant professor of economics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Time Preference: Experiments and Foundations
Jawward Noor,
assistant professor of economics,
Boston Univeristy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Pseudoscience Wars: The Great Collision of 1950
Michael Gordin,
professor of history,
Princeton University,
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Using Cognition to Regulate Emotion: From Basic Mechanisms to Mechanistic Breakdowns
Kevin Ochsner,
associate professor of psychology,
Columbia University,
Friday, November 19th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Queueing Games in Call Centers
Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan,
graduate student in computer science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Castos Rivadulla,
University of the District of Columbia,
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Digital Democratization: Suffrage Expansion and the Decline of Political Machines in Brazil
F. Daniel Hidalgo,
Department of Political Science,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
4:00pm
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The Humanities and Social Sciences Mellon Divisional Lecture
Modeling Causal Judgment
Christopher Hitchcock,
professor of philosophy,
Caltech,