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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Catholic Cosmopolis: Rethinking Orientalism in Early Modern Rome
Daniel Stolzenberg, Department of History, UC Davis,
Monday, November 5th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Collective Self-Control
Alessandro Lizzeri, Professor of Economics, New York University,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study (joint with Thomas Palfrey)
Marina Agranov, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Agency Models with Frequent Actions
Tomasz Sadzik, Assistant Professor, UCLA,
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Optical, Molecular and Cellular Tools to Observe, Perturb, and Re-engineer Brain Circuits
Vivian Gradinaru, Professor/Visiting Associate, Biology, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Elicitation (and Evaluation) of Statistical Forecasts
Nicolas S. Lambert, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Friday, November 9th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Real Time Markets: Success or Disaster?
John Ledyard, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, Caltech,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Everything you always wanted to know about Locust Olfaction
Sina Tootoonian, CNS,
Monday, November 12th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Visual Place Learning in Drosophila
Michael Reiser, Ph.D, Janella Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Statistical Analysis of Results from Laboratory Studies in Experimental Economics: A Critique of Current Practice
Donald Green, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University,
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar

Giving Effective Feedback on Student Writing
Susanne Hall, Campus Writing Coordinator in the Hixon Writing Center & Lecturer in Writing, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Limited Willpower
Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Goofball Panic: Bureaucratic Rationality, Economic Interest, and Irrational Sentiment in Postwar American Drug Regulation
Nicolas Rasmussen, Professor in the School of History & Philosophy, University of New South Wales,
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Prefrontal Contributions to Decision-Making: Insights from Brain-injured Patients
Lesley Fellows, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosugery, McGill University,
Friday, November 16th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Average Testing and Pareto Efficiency
Yakov Babichenko, Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech,
Monday, November 19th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

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Uri Hasson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Leah Platt Boustan, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UCLA,
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

The Physicist Max von Laue: "Knight Without Fear or Fault"
Dieter Hoffman, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
Monday, November 26th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Cortical circuits underlying olfaction
jeffrey Isaacson, Associate Professor, University California, San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Demand for Bad Policy When Voters Do Not Understand Equilibrium Effects (with Ernesto Dal Bó and Erik Eyster)
Pedro Dal Bo, Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University,
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Confidence and Overconfidence and Political Economy (joint with Pietro Ortoleva)
Erik Snowberg, Professor of Economics and Political Science, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Robust Incentive Contracting
Gabriel Carroll, Graduate Student, MIT,
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Learning to Simulate and Predict the Other
Hiroyuki Nakahara, Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, Brain Research Institute, Institute of Chemical and Physical Research (RIKEN),
Friday, November 30th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Efficiency Loss in Cournot Oligopolies
Yunjian Xu, Postdoctoral Scholar in Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar

Political Parties and the Politics of Market Access in the Aftermath of Britain's Glorious Revolution
Dan Bogart, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine,
7:30pm 9:00pm
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German Film

The Foster Boy – der Verdingbub
Markus Imboden, Director,