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Newsletter 87: Nov 4, 2013

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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, November 4
 
12.00-1.30, Schermerhorn 200B (Psych Department Cognitive Lunch)
         Kerri Johnson (UCLA)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on Psych Dept Cognitive Lunch:
https://lists.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/cognitive_lunch
 
12.00-1.00, IAB 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Colloquium)
         Ajin Lee (Columbia)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Applied Microeconomics Colloquium:
http://econ.columbia.edu/seminar-schedule
 
Wednesday, November 6
 
12.00-1.00, 1102 IAB (Industrial Organization Colloquium)
         Lina Lu (Columbia)
         “Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Constrained Factor Models”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Industrial Organization Colloquium:
http://jagiellonia.econ.columbia.edu/colloquia/industorg/
 
2.10-4.00, 1101 IAB (International Economics Workshop)
         Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth)
         “Two-sided Heterogeneity and Trade” (with Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the International Economics Workshop:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/interecon
 
4.15-5.45, 1101 IAB (Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar)
         Thomas Le Barbanchon (NYU)
         “Do Minority Candidates Benefit from Anonymous Job Applications? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment” (with Luc Behaghel and Bruno Crepon)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Applied Microeconomics: Environment, Health, Labor and Public Finance Seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/appliedmicro
 
Thursday, November 7
 
2.15-3.45, Uris 333 (Finance Seminar)
         Vito Gala (London Business School)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Finance seminar:
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/seminars/finance
 
 
Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU

Tuesday, November 5
 
12.30-2.00, 6 Washington Place Room 551 (Social Psych Brown Bags)
         Amy Krosch (NYU)
         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
 
Wednesday, November 6
 
4.30-5.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)
         Andrew Kloosterman (NYU)
         “An Experimental Study of Public Information in Markov Games”
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Microeconomic Theory Workshop:
http://econ.as.nyu.edu/object/econ.event.microeconomic
 
Thursday, November 7
 
12.30-1.30, 19 W 4th St, Rm 517 (CESS Experimental Economics Seminar)
         Gary Charness (UCSB)
         “Let’s talk: How communication affects contract design” (with Jordi Brandts and Matthew Ellman)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the CESS Experimental Economics Seminar:
http://cess.nyu.edu/seminars/fall-2013/
 
Friday, November 8
 
12.30-2.00, 4 Washington Place, Room 771 (Decision Making Joint Lab Meeting)
         Lauren Atlas (NYU)
         iCal (to add this event to your calendar)
 
For more information on the Decision Making Joint Lab Meeting:
http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/events_joint_lab_meeting.html
 
 
Web Link of the Week:
 
Afraid of snakes? Your Pulvinar May Be to Blame:
Scientists have discovered that certain neurons in the brain, in a region known as the pulvinar, respond only to snakes.
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