Subject: CDS Weekly newsletter
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia
Monday, September 27 2.40-3.55, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack) Lara Kammrath (Wilfrid Laurier University) “The Limits of Love: How love often fails to help individuals regulate their behavior in relationships” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
2.30-4.00, IAB 1101 (Economic Theory Workshop) Dale Stahl (University of Texas at Austin) “Between-Game Rule Learning in Dissimilar Symmetric Normal-Form Games” (with Ernan Haruvy) iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
12.30-2.00, Uris 141 (Management Division Seminar: NOTE that time and place is changed) Tiziana Casciaro (University of Toronto) “The Co-Evolution of Instrumental and Affective Content in Intraorganizational Task-Related Networks” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Tuesday, September 28
12:30-2:00, Uris 307 (Marketing Division Seminar) Bart de Langhe (Erasmus University) “Price as a Cue for Quality: Cue-Outcome
Learning under Homo- and Heteroscedastic Outcome Uncertainty” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
2:15-3:45, Uris 306 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy) John Rust (University of Maryland) “A Dynamic Model of Leap-Frogging Investments and Bertrand Price Competition” (with Joseph Harrington, Fedor Iskhakov and Bertel Schjerning) iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Wednesday, September 29
12:00-1:30 , Knox Hall 509 (New Pathways for the Social Sciences Colloquium Series) Glenn C. Loury (Brown University) “The Challenge of Mass Incarceration” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
4:10-5:45, Schermerhorn 501 (Psychology Department Colloquia Series) Alexander Todorov (Princeton University) “Using Data-driven Methods to Model Social Perception and Explore its Neural Basis” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
4:15-5:45, IAB 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar) Alice Henriques (PhD Student) “Does Social Security Claiming Respond to Incentives? Considering Husbands’ Benefits Separately from His Wives” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Thursday, September 30
10:00-11:30, the Sergievsky Center Conference Room on the 19th floor of the Presbyterian Hospital Building (Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar) Stephanie Cosentino (CUMC Sergievsky Center) “Metacognition and decision making in Alzheimer's disease” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
Wednesday, September 29
4:00-5:30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop) Ignacio Esponda (NYU Stern) “Information Aggregation, Learning, and Non-strategic Behavior in Voting Environments” iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
Weblink of the week
An economist and a Nobel Laureate economists claim they have found the perfect salary for happiness. http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/07/the-perfect-salary-for-happiness-75000-a-year/
Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford, claim to find a hidden cost of falling in love and that Facebook friends are a form of mate advertising. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11321282
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8006645/Facebook-friends-are-mating-display.html
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