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January 2012
Friday, January 6th, 2012
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Epidemics, Graphs and Eigenvalues
Subhonmesh Bose,
Graduate Student,
Caltech, Electrical Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
How to Destroy Probabilities and Lives by Trying to Make Things Safer
Adam Elga,
Department of Philosophy,
Princeton University,
Monday, January 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Learning Hierarchies of Invariant Features
Yann LeCun,
Professor,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Neural Science,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Gender Differences in Productivity Responses to Performance Rankings: Evidence From a Randomized Workplace Experiment
Iwan Barankay,
Associate Professor,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania ,
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Rational Herding in Microloan Markets
Juanjuan Zhang,
Associate Professor of Marketing,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Probabilistic Models of Sensorimotor Control and Decision Making
Daniel Wolpert,
rofessor,
Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Causation and Probability-Raising
Luke Glynn,
McDonnell Postdoctoral Scholar in Philosophy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Developing Shared Knowledge
Hongyi Li,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, January 20th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Vignettes - A Computer Scientist Exploring the Interface With The Social Sciences
Katrina Ligett,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Economics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Productivity and Credibility in Industry Equilibrium
Michael Powell,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, January 27th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices (joint with B. Douglas Bernheim, Colin Camerer, and Antonio Rangel)
Alec Smith,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of Feynman Diagrams
Adrian Wuthrich,
Center for Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interaction of Planning Areas in Cerebral Cortex
R. Chess Stetson,
Computation & Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technolgoy,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Fiction Reading
Fiction Reading
Mat Johnson,
Novelist; Creative Writing Program Professor,
The University of Houston,