November 30

10:00-10:40 Alexander Schied Cornell University Optimal portfolio liquidation and predatory trading [slides]
10:50-11:30 Gordan Zitkovic University of Texas A perspective on the stochastic equilibrium problem [slides]
11:40-12:20 Jean Jacod Universite Paris VI Volatility and Jumps in Presence of Microstructure Noise (joint with Yacine Ait-Sahalia) [slides]
2:00-2:40 Rene Carmona Princeton University Market Designs for Emission Trading Schemes [slides]
2:50-3:30 Thaleia Zariphopoulou University of Texas Stochastic pdes in portfolio choice [slides]
4:00-4:40 Steve Kou Columbia University What Is a Good External Risk Measure: Bridging the Gaps between Robustness,
 Subadditivity, and Insurance Risk Measures
[slides]
4:50-5:30 Ken Kim Columbia University Moment Explosions and Stationary Distributions in Affine Diffusion Models [slides]

December 1

9:00-9:40 Steven E. Shreve Carnegie Mellon University Futures Trading with Transaction Costs [slides]
9:50-10:30 Peter Carr NYU and Bloomberg Static Hedging under Zero Drift CEV [slides]
11:00-11:40 Paolo Guasoni Boston University Portfolios and Risk Premia for the Long Run
11:50-12:30 Kasper Larsen Carnegie Mellon University Continuity of utility-maximization with respect to preferences
2:10-2:50 Dilip Madan University of Maryland Equilibrium Asset Pricing with Non-Gaussian Factors and Exponential Utility [slides]
3:00-3:40 Rama Cont Columbia University Recovering Credit Portfolio Loss Rates from CDO Tranches: Solution of an
 inverse problem by intensity control
[slides]
3:50-4:30 Ronnie Sircar Princeton University Twists and Turns in the Skew and Term Structure:Calibration 2.0 of the Implied Volatility Surface [slides]