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Newsletter 52: Sep 24, 2012

The Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School

Welcome to the Center for Decision Sciences' Weekly Newsletter. Below you can find a list of events of interest. 

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia
 
Monday, Sept 24
 
12.10-1.30, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch)
         Mark Baxter (Mount Sinai Medical Center)
         Title TBA
         http://neuroscience.mssm.edu/baxter/baxter_team.html
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/news/areatalks/lunch.html
 
2.30-4.00, 1101 IAB  (Economic Theory Workshop)
         Kalyan Chatterjee (PER visitor)
         Credibility and Strategic Learning in Networks
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221695
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Economic Theory Workshop:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/economictheory
 
 
2.40-4.00, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack)
         Professional development workshop
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Psych Dept Social Snack:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/news/areatalks/snack.html?mode=interactive&screen=view&dpRaGTbLww_save=true&dpRaGTbLww_comment=
 
Tuesday, Sept 25
 
12.30-1.45, Uris 332 (Management Division Seminar)
         Dave DeSteno (Northeastern)
         "Can I Trust You?  Unlocking the Cues to Trust at Zero-Acquaintance"
         http://www.socialemotions.org/
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Management Division Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/management/seminars
 
 
2:15-4:00, 307 Uris (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)
         Tarun Khanna (Harvard)
         "Visionary Leader and Followers: An Empirical Study of India's Public R&D Laboratories" (with Prithwiraj Choudhury)
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7221299
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on I.O., Organizations, and Strategy:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/industorg
 
 
4:15-5:45, 307 Uris (Money Macro Seminar)
         Jose Scheinkman (Princeton)
         Cream skimming in financial markets (with Patrick Bolton and Tano Santos)
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7311887
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Money Macro Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/money
 
 
Wednesday, Sept 26
 
12.00-1.30, Knox 509 (New Pathways for the Social Sciences Colloquium Series)
         Omar Lizardo (University of Notre Dame)
         Talk title TBA
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on New Pathways for the Social Sciences Colloquium Series:http://sociology.columbia.edu/colloquium-series-new-pathways-social-sciences
 
2.10-4.00, IAB 1011 (International Economics Workshop)
         Bob Staiger
         Trade Disputes and Settlement (with Giovanni Maggi)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on International Economics Workshop:http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/interecon
 
4.15-5.45, 1101 SIPA (Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar)
         Hyunchoel Kim
         Talk Title TBA
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on International Economics Workshop:http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/interecon
 
Thursday, Sept 27
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 330 (Finance Seminar)
         Yael Hochberg
         Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments (with Joshua Rauh)
         http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?&file_id=7311888
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Finance Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance
 
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU
 
Monday, Sept 24
 
4.15-5.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Applied Microeconomics Workshop)
         Presenter: Martin Browning (Oxford University)
         “Income and consumption: a micro semi-structural analysis”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on  the Applied Microeconomics Workshop:
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.applied
 
Tuesday, Sept 25
 
12.30-2.00, Room 771, 6 Washington Place (Social Psychology Brown Bags)
         Presenter: David Winter (University of Michigan)
         " Taming Power: Should We? Can We? How?"
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Social Psychology Brown Bags:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/events/colloquia.html#social
 
Thursday, Sept 27
 
12.30-1.30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (CESS Experimental Economics seminar)
         Muriel Niederle (Stanford University )
         Paper: (joint with Dan Fragiadakis, Asen Ivanov, Dan Knoepfle) “Identifying Predictable Players”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the CESS Experimental Economics seminar:
http://cess.nyu.edu/seminars/fall-2012/
 
Weblink of the week
 
Start your new relationship with data together with Roger Peng and 30000 other students
 
On September 24 Coursera,  an education technology company committed to making education freely available to any person who seeks it, is launching their online course “Computing for Data Analysis” by Professor Roger D. Peng of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
 
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