Wayland Collegium Faculty Interdisciplinary Seminar on
Decision Making and Rationality

 

Alternate Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30pm. Refreshments served at 3:45pm. Most seminars in the Lubrano Conference Room, 4th Floor CIT, 115 Waterman Street. Students and faculty from all fields are welcome to attend. Talks are designed for a general audience.

Schedule of Talks 2004-2005

September 14th
Lubrano

  Roberto Serrano (Brown University)
Rejecting Small Gambles under Expected Utility: A Recent Controversy
     
September 28th
Lubrano
  Steven Sloman (Brown University)
Decision-making and the Causal World: Choice as Intervention
     
October 12th
Lubrano

  Pedro Dal Bó (Brown University)
Cooperation under the Shadow of the Future: Experimental Evidence from Infinitely Repeated Games
     
October 26th
Lubrano
  Amy Greenwald (Brown University)
Game-Theoretic Learning: Regret Minimization vs. Utility Maximization
     
November 9th
Lubrano
  Craig Boutilier (University of Toronto)
Minimax Regret Methods for Decision Making with Imprecise Utility Functions
     
November 23rd
Lubrano
  Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
An economist's point of view on Neuroeconomics
     
February 1st
Lubrano
  Joe Halpern (Cornell University)
Redoing the Foundations of Decision Theory: Decision Theory with Subjective State Spaces
     
February 15th
Lubrano
  Ariel Rubinstein (NYU & Tel Aviv University)
Introduction to the Economics of the Jungle
     
March 8th
Lubrano
  Tom Gilovich (Cornell University)
Understanding Others by Adjusting from the Self
     
March 22nd
Lubrano
  Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley)
Rationality and Intelligence
Sponsored by The Charles K. Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund
     
April 12th
McMillan 117
  Daniel Kahneman (Princeton University)
Toward a Science of Well-Being?
Sponsored by The Charles K. Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund
     
April 26th
Salomon 101
  John Nash (Princeton University)
Ideal and Asymptotically Ideal Money
Sponsored by The Charles K. Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund