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October 2011
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Entry under Subsidy: the Competitive U.S. Local Telephone Industry
Mo Xaio,
University of Arizona,
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Believing and Time: A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making
Michael Shadlen,
Professor and HHMI Investigator,
Department of Physiology and Biophysics,
University of Washington,
Monday, October 10th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Sensory Processing in a Small Brain
Rachel Wilson,
Associate Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Dynamic Political Distortions Under Alternative Constitutional Settings
Carlo Prato,
Graduate Student,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Visual Number Form Area in the Human Inferior Temporal Cortex: An Intracranial Electrocorticography and Electrical Brain Stimulation Study in Conscious Human Subjects
Josef Parvizi,
Assistant Professor,
Neurology & Neurological Sciences,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Future of Federally Funded Surveys & Why Most of What We Know about Public Opinion could be Wrong: A Randomized Test of Mode of Interview
Lynn Vavreck,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Turnout Matters: Evidence from Compulsory Voting in Australia
Anthony Fowler,
Graduate Student,
Department of Government,
Harvard University,
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The Neurodynamics of Automatic Behavior
F. Gregory Ashby,
Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
'Throw That Junk!': The Art of the Movie in Citizen Kane
Jeffrey Knapp,
Chancellor's Professor of English,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 14th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Real-Time Demand Response in Smart Grid with Uncertain Renewable Energy
Libin Jiang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, October 17th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Inferring Strategic Voting
Kei Kawai,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Euler's Attack on Post-Leibnizian Dynamics
Marius Stan,
Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Effective Affirmative Action in School Choice
Isa E. Hafalir,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon,
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Forcing Consent: Information and Power in Non-Democratic Elections
Arturas Rozenas,
Graduate Student,
Duke University,
Friday, October 21st, 2011
4:00pm
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Income and Representation in the United States Congress
Christopher N. Tausanovitch,
Graduate Student,
Department of Poltical Science,
Stanford University,
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Humanities Conference
Reid's Account of Perception as a Two-Stage Process
Marina Folescu,
PhD Candidate,
University of Southern California,
Monday, October 24th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Debt Policy Under Constraints Between Philip II, the Cortes and Genoese Bankers
Christophe Chamley,
Department of Economics,
Boston University,
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
Why Printing Precedes Manuscript
Peter Stallybrass,
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professer in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania,
R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, Huntington Library,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
*This seminar has been cancelled* Tying Your Enemys Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Tommaso Nannicini,
Bocconi University,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contagion and Uninvadability in Social Networks with Bilingual Option (joint with Daisuke Oyama)
Satoru Takahashi,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Molecular Genetics of Economic Decision Making
Chew Soo Hong,
Lab for Behavioral & Biological Economics & the Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore,
Richard P Ebstein,
Lab for Behavioral & Biological Economics & the Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore,
Friday, October 28th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamic Oligopoly Games under Asymmetric Costs
Andrew Ledvina,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Mathematical Finance,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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