Seminars of Interest at Columbia

Monday, February 3rd

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm - Schermerhorn Hall 200B
Psychology Seminar: First Year Talks

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm - Uris 329
Finance: PhD Student Seminar


Tuesday, February 4th

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm - Uris 331
Macroeconomics Lunch Group - David Argente 

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm - Uris 332
Management Seminar - Peter Cappelli 
Gender difference in speed of advancement: An empirical examination of top executives in the Fortune 100 firms


Thursday, February 6th

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm - Warren Hall 207
Finance Seminar - Yueran Ma

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm - Uris 329
Microeconomics Faculty Lunch

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm - Uris 301
Marketing Seminar - Lauren Block (Baruch)


Other Seminars of Interest


Thursday, February 6th

12:30 pm - NYU - 6 Washington Place, Room 121
Cognition and Perception Colloquium: Sam Ling (Boston University)
How does normalization regulate visual competition?


Friday, February 7th

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - NYU - 6 Washington Place, Room 465
Concats Seminar: Zach Davis (NYU)


Article of the Week

What Brain Science Can Tell Us About Environmental Decision-Making
Dr. Nik Sawe, head of the Stanford Environmental Decision-Making and Neuroscience Lab, uses fMRI studies to gain insight into how individuals value the environment. He and colleague Brian Knutson found, for example, that thinking about how pollution would damage a valued environmental feature activates a part of the brain associated with disgust. In turn, this feeling of disgust predicted how much participants would donate to save that environmental feature.  Pro-environment groups can leverage these findings to run more lucrative fundraising campaigns.



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