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April 2015
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
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Bray Theory Workshop
Stochastic Dominance Analysis without the Independence Axiom
Simone Cerreia Vioglio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Universita Bocconi, Milan, Italy,
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Commitment and (In)Efficiency: a Bargaining Experiment (joint with Matt Elliott)
Marina Agranov, Assistant Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech ,
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Allocation in tender auctions with several stakeholders where quality aspects matter
Thomas Greve,
Research Associate, Microeconomic Theory, University of Cambridge,
Monday, April 6th, 2015
4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
South Sea Dreams: Pacific Exploration in Spanish Histories of the Americas, 1500-1550
Ricardo Padrón,
Associate Professor of Spanish,
Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese,
University of Virginia,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Evolution of Modern Militaries
Jon Bendor,
Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Political Economics and Organizations,
Stanford Graduate School of Business, School of Humanities and Sciences,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar / Bray Theory Workshop
Biases and Implicit Knowledge
Tom Cunningham,
Assistant Professor,
IIES,
Stockholm University; Visiting Associate, Caltech,
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Cohabitation versus Marriage: Marriage Matching with Peer Effects (Co-authored with Aloysius Siow)
Ismael Mourifié,
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto,
Friday, April 10th, 2015
9:00am
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Saturday, April 11th, 2015
8:00am
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Monday, April 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Designing Dynamic Contests
Mohamed Mostagir,
Stephen M. Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Wayne Ferson, USC
How Many Good and Bad Fund Managers Are there, Really?
Wayne Ferson, Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
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Bray Theory Workshop
Common Value Auctions with Costly Entry
Juuso Välimäki,
Professor of Economics, Helsinki School of Economics,
Visiting Professor,
Yale University,
Thursday, April 16th, 2015
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Identifiability conditions for causal models
Frederick Eberhardt, Professor of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech ,
Friday, April 17th, 2015
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Picture Multiple: Figuring, Thinking, and Knowing in Descartes's Essais (1637)
Melissa Lo, Assistant Curator of the Dibner Collections at the Huntington,
Monday, April 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
On the Long Run Volatility of Stocks
Carlos Carvalho,
Associate Professor of Statistics,
McCombs School of Business,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competing for Loyalty: The Dynamics of Political Support
Matias Iaryczower,
Assistant Professor of Politics,
Department of Politics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
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Bray Theory Workshop
Dynamic Rational Inattention
Philipp Sadowski,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Strategic Network Formation with Many Agents
Konrad Menzel,
New York University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Man and Machine: Reports from the Front Lines of Exploration
Jeff J. Marlow,
PhD Candidate, Geobiology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, April 24th, 2015
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Monday, April 27th, 2015
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CNS Seminar
Manifolds, maps, and reinforcement learning
Sam Gershman,
Postdoctoral fellow,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Inequality and Social Comparisons
Elizabeth Maggie Penn,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Worrying about Weeds: Exotic Plants and Biological Invasions in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Paolo Squatriti,
Associate Professor of Italian,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
"At the Intersection of Art and Science" - A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Gross
Joyce Carol Oates,
Author,
Charles Gross,
Neuroscientist,
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Reverse Mechanism Design
Nima Haghpanah,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
MIT,