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Thursday, May 1st, 2014
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Orbitofrontal Cortex: Beyond Value
Jonathan D. Wallis,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
9:30am
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5:00pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Workshop
BUILDING STORIES: Intersections of Writing and Architecture
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Design, Laboratory Testing, and Implementation of Large Constrained Auctions: The Victoria, Australia, Gaming Machine Auction
Charles R. Plott,
William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
Monday, May 5th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Critical Citizenship in the Anglo-African Magazine, 1859-1860
Derrick R. Spires,
Mellon Caltech-Huntington Postdoctoral Instructor in English,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contractual Chains and Modes of Contractual Linkages
Joel Watson,
Professor of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, May 8th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
How Multiple Forms of Learning Guide Decisions
Daphna Shohamy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Seminar
A Skilful Speaker and Agitator of the Communist Intellectual Type': How Jacob Bronowski's Wartime Security Service (MI5) File Overshadowed His Career
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for ‎Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
Friday, May 9th, 2014
9:00am
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5/10
5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for ‎Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Art of Optimizing via Simulations: Empirical Dynamic Programming
Rahul Jain,
Associate Professor, Kenneth C. Dahlberg Early Career Chair,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Monday, May 12th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Measuring Fraud in Aid
Jean Ensminger,
Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar
Talking Sex in Early Modern England: Or, What Do Words Tell Us About the History of Sexuality?
Valerie Traub,
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled - CNS Seminar
Cancelled
Nicole Rust,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Dynamic Agenda Setting (joint with Ying Chen)
Hulya Eraslan,
Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
A Model of Choice and its Predictions
Aldo Rustichini,
University of Minnesota,
Friday, May 16th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Stability and Robustness of Dynamical Network Flows
Ketan Savla,
Assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Natural Kinds as Categorical Bottlenecks
Laura Franklin-Hall,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
New York University,
Monday, May 19th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Decentralized Bargaining: Efficiency and the Core
Matthew Elliott,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining (joint with B. Douglas Bernheim and Xiaochen Fan)
S. Nageeb Ali,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Becoming Earthlings: Citizen-Observers in Nineteenth-Century Geoscience
Deborah Coen,
Associate Professor of History,
Barnard College, Columbia University,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Ostracism
S. Nageeb Ali,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Public Experiments
Steve Kurtz,
Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Studies,
University of Buffalo,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Affective Dynamics: Motivations, Goals, and Trajectories
Wil Cunningham,
University of Toronto,
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Underbidding and Experience and USFS Timber Auctions
Benjamin Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 29th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Value of Network Information (joint with Andrea Galeotti)
Itay Fainmesser,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
On the Evolution of Reward Signals: A Computational Just-So Story
Andrew G. Barto,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Friday, May 30th, 2014
10:30am
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3:00pm
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HSS Graduate Students' Third-Year Presentations
Presentations: 10:30am - 12:00pm; 1:30pm - 3:00pm
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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