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May 2024
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
4:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Stefan Wager,
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance
Chenzi Xu,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Stanford University Graduate School of Business,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Poetry's Forgotten Information Concepts
Lea Pao,
Assistant Professor of German Studies and Chair of Undergraduate Studies, German Studies, at Stanford University,
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: I, Human: Unlocking the Secret of Human Intelligence
Sneha R. Aenugu,
Caltech graduate student,
Social & Decision Neuroscience,
- Public Event
10:30am
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11:30am
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Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar
Online Event
Multimodal Imaging and Resting-State Global Brain Activity: Controversies, Hypotheses, and Discovery
Thomas T. Liu,
Director of the UCSD Center for Functional MRI and Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Buying from a Group
Elliot Lipnowski,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Columbia University,
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Green Capital Requirements
Marcus Opp,
Professor of Finance,
Stockholm School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Symmetries as Isomorphisms
Lu Chen,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
A reading from Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
Dr. Aomawa Shields,
Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
- Public Event
Friday, May 10th, 2024
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Choose Your Moments: Peer Review And Scientific Risk Taking
Josh Graff Zivin,
Professor; Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations; Director, Cowhey Center on Global Transformation; UC San Diego,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Risk Aversion and Insurance Propensity
Fabio Maccheroni,
Full Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Università Bocconi,
Thursday, May 16th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Model T
Joshua Hausman,
Associate Professor of Public Policy,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
John Brewer,
Faculty Associate,
History Department,
Harvard University and Eli and Edythe Broad Emeritus Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainability Series Lecture
Clean Electricity and the Path to Net Zero: Methods and Insights
Jesse D. Jenkins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment,
Princeton University,
Friday, May 17th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Games under the Tiered Deferred Acceptance Mechanism
Jiarui Xie,
Visiting Student,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Kathleen Rockland
Axons and Brain Architecture
Dr. Kathleen Rockland,
Research Professor,
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Model Based Revealed Preference
Peter P. Caradonna,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
What are cognitive costs?
Thomas F. Icard,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech; Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Stanford University,
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Machine Learning as a Tool for Discovery: Applications to Behavioral Economics and Other Inscrutable Sciences
Sendhil Mullainathan,
Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science,
University of Chicago Booth,
Thursday, May 30th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Serial Blackness: Curating Black Life in William Still's Underground Railroad (1872)
Derrick R. Spires,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Associate Professor of English and John and Patricia Cochran Scholar of Inclusive Excellence, University of Delware,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Controlling for Discrete Unmeasured Confounding in Nonlinear Causal Models
Patrick Burauel,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
From the Artisan Shop to the Mechanized Factory: Inanimate Power and the Transformation of American Manufacturing, 1820 to 1900
Robert A. Margo,
Professor of Economics,
Boston University,
Friday, May 31st, 2024
10:30am
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11:30am
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Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar
Online Event
The Future of fMRI: Challenges, Opportunities, and Ultimate Utility
Peter Bandettini,
NIH/NIMH,
12:00pm
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5:00pm
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