The ninth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Post-doctoral Seminar, with the title “Household Studies in Complex Societies: (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches,” organized by Miriam Müller, was held on Friday, March 15, and Saturday, March 16, 2013, in Breasted Hall. Over two days, the papers and discussions focused on household archaeology, a topic that has generated con...

We argue that goals serve as reference points and alter outcomes in a manner consistent with the value function of Prospect Theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979; Tversky & Kahneman, 1992). We present new evidence that goals inherit the properties of the value function-not only a reference point, but also loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity. We also use the value function to explain previous e...

We study a rational expectation model of bubbles and crashes. The model has two components: (1) our key assumption is that a crash may be caused by local self-reinforcing imitation between noise traders. If the tendency for noise traders to imitate their nearest neighbors increases up to a certain point called the “critical” point, all noise traders may place the same order (sell) at the same t...

Various algorithms can compute approximate feasible points or approximate solutions to equality and bound constrained optimization problems. In exhaustive search algorithms for global optimizers and other contexts, it is of interest to construct bounds around such approximate feasible points, then to verify (computationally but rigorously) that an actual feasible point exists within these bound...

s/Presentations: Yue, WY, Woodson, E, Tryggvason, G, Clark, JJ, Hansen, MR. p75 is overexpressed in vestibular schwannomas and protects cells from apoptosis due to suppressed c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activity. American Association for Cancer Research, Washington DC, April 2010. Yue, WY, Clark, JJ, Domann, F, Hansen, MR. Persistent C-Jun N-terminal kinase activity contributes to the surviva...