University of Chicago
Financial Mathematics Seminar

Unless otherwise noted, the seminars take place on 4:30 pm on Friday, in Room 202 of Eckhart Hall.

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Open to the public.

Related activities: Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk (click to see Abstract) Comments
10/26/2006 Damiano Brigo Banca IMI and Bocconi University Consistent Calibration of CDO Tranches with the Generalized-Poisson Loss dynamical model Slides
11/17/2006 Yong Zeng UMKC, Mathematics and Statistics Filtering with Marked Point Process Observations: Applications to Ultra-High Frequency Data Slides
Papers, data, and Fortran codes
12/1/2006 Jan Vecer Columbia University, Statistics Maximum Drawdown, Directional Trading and Market Crashes slides
12/8/2006 Lars Peter Hansen University of Chicago, Economics Long Run Risk paper
1/19/2007 Ying Chen Humboldt University, Berlin, School of Economics and Management Accounting for Nonstationarity and Heavy Tails in Financial Time Series, with Applications to Robust Risk Management
2/2/2007 David Nualart University of Kansas, Mathematics Hedging and portfolio optimization in a Levy market model
3/2/2007 Zongwu Cai UNC Charlotte, Mathematics Nonparametric Regression Models for Nonstationary Variables with Applications in Economics and Finance Cancelled
3/9/2007 Andrew Lim University of California at Berkeley, IEOR Robust asset allocation using benchmarking paper
3/30/2007 Jean Jacod Laboratoire de Probabilités, Université Paris VI Models for options prices
4/6/2007 William Ziemba University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business The Kelly Criterion and its variants: theory and practice in sports, lottery, futures, and options trading Paper
Slides
4/13/2007 Bluford H. Putnam EQA Partners, L.P. Practical experiences in financial markets using Bayesian forecasting systems presentation and papers
4/21-22/2007 Conference on Volatility and High Frequency Data (downtown, at Hotel Intercontinental)
5/11/2007 4:30pm Eckhart 202 Paul Glasserman Columbia University, Graduate School of Business Pricing Credit Derivatives and Measuring Credit Risk in Multifactor Models
5/18/2007 Alvaro Cartea Commodities Finance Centre, and School of Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics. Birkbeck College, University of London. How Do Waiting Times or Duration Between Trades of Underlying Securities Affect Option Prices