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November 2018
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
8:00am
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11/2
5:00pm
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Friday, November 2nd, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar
Information Design in Service Systems and Markets
Krishnamurthy Iyer,
Assistant Professor,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE),
Cornell University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with Unobserved Choices
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Tampering with Information
Odilon Camara,
Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 8th, 2018
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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** CANCELED ** T&C Chen Center for Brain-Machine Interface Distinguished Lecture Series.
"Dynamic Sensorimotor Control and Brain-Machine Interface"
He Cui,
Principal Investigator and Lab Head ,
Laboratory of Neural Mechanism of Motor Control ,
Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T & C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture
Toward a Normative Account of the Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Control: Shared vs. Separated Representations and Interactive vs. Independent Parallelism
Jonathan Cohen,
Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor,
Princeton University,
Friday, November 9th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
A neuroeconomic measure of social avoidance
Johannes Schultz,
Assistant Professor,
Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
"The Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Visuomotor Task Learning in Hippocampus and Parietal Cortex"
Christian Klaes,
Emmy Noether Group Leader,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany,
Saturday, November 10th, 2018
2:00pm
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11/11
3:00pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Towards a Global History of Biodiversity
Daniel Lewis,
Lecturer in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology, The Huntington Library,
Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
11:30am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Road to Efficiency Through Communication and Commitment
Joao Ramos,
Assistant Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading
Eavan Boland,
Irish Poet and Author; Professor and Director of Creative Writing Program, English Department, Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Estimation with Aggregate Shocks
Jinyong Hahn,
Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, November 16th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Random versus Directed Search with Constrained Capacity
Tewodros (Teddy) Mekonnen,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech ,
Monday, November 19th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chen Distinguished Visitor Series - Raj Rao from University of Washington
The Bayesian Brain: From Predictive Coding to Decision Making
Raj Rao,
C. J. and Elizabeth Hwang Professor and co-Director of the NSF Center for Neurotechnology,
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, November 20th, 2018
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chen Distinguished Visitor Series - Raj Rao from University of Washington
Raj Rao,
C. J. and Elizabeth Hwang Professor and co-Director of the NSF Center for Neurotechnology,
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Viral-Like Intercellular Communication in the Nervous System"
Jason Shepherd,
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Ophthalmology & Visual Science,
University of Utah, School of Medicine,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 26th, 2018
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Solving the Common-Pool Resource Problem Using Markets? A Study of the Surface Water Trading and Groundwater Depletion in CA
Hao Zhao,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Experts and Financial Ties: Evidence from FDA Advisory Committees
Fanny Camara,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Selective Processing of Need-Relevant Cues: a Dialogue Between Hypothalamus and Cortex"
Mark Andermann,
Assistant Professor,
Neuroscience,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Hard Problem of Intertheoretic Comparisons
Jennifer Carr,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Theory of Recursive Aggregation with Applications
Hamed Hamze Bajgiran,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 29th, 2018
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors
Alex Imas,
William S. Dietrich II Assistant Professor in Behavioral Economics,
Social and Decision Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Historical Foundations of Free Market Fundamentalism
Naomi Oreskes,
Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University,