Upcoming Events for Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26 8:00 am - 4/27 5:00 pm	SoCal Structural Econometrics Conference Baxter Lecture Hall Topics and speakers to be announced

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Accountability under Polarization Horacio Larreguy, Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM),

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium Stefan Wager, Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business,

Thursday, May 2, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Finance Seminar Baxter B125 Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance Chenzi Xu, Assistant Professor of Finance, Stanford University Graduate School of Business,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Literary Dimensions Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Poetry's Forgotten Information Concepts Lea Pao, Assistant Professor, Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, Stanford University- School of Humanities,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Literary Dimensions Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced. Lea Pao,

Friday, May 3, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Science Journey: I, Human: Unlocking the Secret of Human Intelligence Beckman Auditorium Sneha R. Aenugu, Caltech graduate student, Social & Decision Neuroscience,
10:30 am - 11:30 am	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,

Thursday, May 9, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Finance Seminar Baxter B125 Green Capital Requirements Marcus Opp, Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Lu Chen, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, USC,
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium 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,

Thursday, May 16, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Joshua Hausman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) 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,

Thursday, May 23, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Thomas F. Icard, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech; Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Stanford University,

Tuesday, May 28, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Sendhil Mullainathan, Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth,

Thursday, May 30, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 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 31, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar Online Event The Future of fMRI: Challenges, Opportunities, and Ultimate Utility Peter Bandettini, NIH/NIMH,
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Visual Culture Program Event Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Futures of Visual Activism Symposium

Tuesday, June 4, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar Location to be announced Topic to be announced Patrick Burauel, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall Topic to be announced. Roger Myerson, David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies in the Harris School of Public Policy, Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago,

Thursday, June 13, 2024
9:00 am - 4:00 pm	HSS Graduate Students' Third-Year Presentations Location to be announced Topics and speakers to be announced
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar Online Event Topic to be announced Christian Ruff, Professor of Neuroeconomics and Decision Neuroscience, Department of Economics, University of Zurich,

Friday, June 21, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar Online Event Photoacoustic, Light-Speed, and Quantum Imaging Lihong Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering; Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair; Executive Officer for Medical Engineering, Caltech,

Monday, July 15, 2024
7/15 8:00 am - 7/17 5:00 pm	Medieval History Workshop Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Thursday, July 25, 2024
8:00 am - 7:00 pm	SoCal Political Economy and Institutions Workshop Baxter B125 Topic to be announced

Friday, September 13, 2024
9/13 8:00 am - 9/14 5:00 pm	Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Workshop Baxter Lecture Hall Navigating the New Frontier: The Political and Economic Implications of AI