Upcoming Events for Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Tuesday, April 16, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Best Complete Approximations of Preference Relations Efe Ok, Professor of Economics, New York University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Thomas Gray as reader and writer of the natural world Scott Mandelbrote, Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge,

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution Scott Gehlbach, Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor, Department of Political Science, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,

Thursday, April 18, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Which Lenders Offered Mortgage Loans to Blacks, Immigrants, and Native White During the Great Depression? Price Fishback, Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics, University of Arizona,

Friday, April 19, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 127 Quantum Advantage in Bayesian Games Igal Milchtaich, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University,

Monday, April 22, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Visual Culture Program Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Scaling Observations Devin Griffiths, University of Southern California, Anna Henchman, Boston University, Omar Nasim, University of Regensburg, Anne Sullivan, University of California, Riverside,

Tuesday, April 23, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing Yao Luo, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Optimal Bailouts in Diversified Financial Networks Rakesh Vohra, George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, Department of Economics and the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,

Thursday, April 25, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Financial Scarring and the Failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank Vellore Arthi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC Irvine,

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
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 26, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor Caltech Postdocs Launch Dr. Hanxun Jin, EAS, Dr. Alessandro Liberatore, JPL,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 127 Price & Choose Matias Nunez, CNRS researcher and Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,

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) 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,

Thursday, May 9, 2024
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,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Finance Seminar Baxter B125 Green Capital Requirements Marcus Opp, Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics,
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	Visual Culture Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) The Art Worlds of Los Angeles: Artists, power brokers, collectors, impresarios and publics, from Duchamp to Broad John Brewer, Faculty Associate, History Department, Harvard University and Eli and Edythe Broad Emeritus Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

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
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

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

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