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May 2012
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Harnessing the Brain for Language and Music
Mark A. Changizi,
Director of Human Cognition,
2AI Labs,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop
James N. Green,
Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,
Friday, May 4th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets
Emerson Melo,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
History of Science and the Historiography of Astrology
Steven Vanden Broecke,
University of Ghent,
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Re-Election Through Division
Richard Van Weelden,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Homophily in Peer Groups
Mariagiovanna Baccara,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Washington University, St. Louis,
Friday, May 11th, 2012
9:00am
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6:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
How is Distributed Generation Stressing the Business Model of Electric Utilities?
Desmond Cai,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Rumor, Truths, and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation
Adam Berinsky,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Matching Information
Hector Chade,
Professor of Economics,
Arizona State University,
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Towards Hybrid Human-Machine Vision Systems: Image Annotation using Crowds, Experts and Machines
Peter Welinder,
graduate student,
Compuation & Neural Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Decoding and Predicting Human Decisions
John-Dylan Haynes,
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin,
Friday, May 18th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Communication with Multiple Senders and Multiple Dimensions: An Experiment
Alistair J. Wilson,
Assistant Professor,
Economics Department,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
In a Future Tense: Immigration Law, Counterfactual Histories, and Chinese Invasion
Edlie Wong,
Associate Professor of English ,
University of Maryland,
Monday, May 21st, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Incentive Compatibility, Efficiency and Network Centrality in Public Good Games
Matthew Elliott,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Neural Patterns Similarity and Visual Perception
Jonathan Harel,
Computation & Neural Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Integrative Moral Cognition
Joshua Greene,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Big Science, 19th Century Style: Terrestrial Physics and the British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole
Edward J. Larson,
University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law,
Pepperdine University,
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The Biography of a Gene: Intellectual Property, HIV-AIDS, and Race in the Age of Biocapitalism
Myles W. Jackson,
Joint Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
NYU-Poly and NYU-Gallatin,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Flexible Renegotiation and Persistent Private Information
Bruno Strulovici,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
An "as-is" Model of Economic Decision Making
Ian Krajbich,
Senior Postdoc in Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, and the Foundations of Human Social Behavi,
Department of Economics,
University of Zurich, Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research,
Friday, May 25th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Einstein-Picasso Question
Lewis Pyenson,
Professor of History,
Western Michigan University,
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship
Alexander Hirsch,
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Reputational Bargaining and Asymmetric Information
David Pearce,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,