Spring 2005

  • Wednesday February 2, 2005
    Savas Dayanik ORFE
    Poisson Disorder Problems
    (This talk is part of the SEAS Junior Faculty Seminar Series and is in the Friend Center Convocation Room from 12:30-1:30)

  • Wednesday February 9, 2005
    Loriano Mancini ORFE
    Introduction to GARCH-type models Slides

  • Monday February 14, 2005
    Loriano Mancini ORFE
    Optimal conditionally unbiased bounded-influence inference in dynamic location and scale models

  • Wednesday February 16, 2005
    Loriano Mancini ORFE
    Robust methods for Value-at-Risk prediction under GARCH-type volatility processes

  • Monday February 21, 2005
    Tim Leung ORFE
    Geometric characterization of arbitrage-free models

  • Wednesday February 23, 2005
    Nitin Saksena ORFE
    Duality results in optimization and finance

  • Monday February 28, 2005
    talk cancelled because of snowstorm!

  • Monday March 7, 2005
    Nizar Touzi CREST, Paris
    Second order backward sde's and fully nonlinear pde's

  • Wednesday March 9, 2005
    Tom Hurd MacMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
    Fast and flexible CDO computations in the affine markov chain credit model Abstract, Paper 1, Paper 2

  • Monday March 21, 2005
    Patrick MacDonald NRG Energy, Princeton
    Structured products in electricity markets Slides, Master Thesis

  • Wednesday March 23, 2005
    Evan Papageorgiou ORFE
    Dynamic Arbitrage theory and the binomial model for derivative pricing

  • Monday March 28, 2005
    Albert N. Shiryaev Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
    Selected topics in probability theory I
    (takes place in E-225 (E-Quad) from 4:30-5:50 pm)

  • Wednesday March 30, 2005
    Erhan Bayraktar University of Michigan
    Correspondence between lifetime minimum wealth and utility of consumption

  • Wednesday March 30, 2005
    Albert N. Shiryaev Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
    Selected topics in probability theory II
    (takes place in E-225 (E-Quad) from 4:30-5:50 pm)

  • Monday April 4, 2005
    Albert N. Shiryaev Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
    Selected topics in mathematical statistics I
    (takes place in E-225 (E-Quad) from 4:30-5:50 pm)

  • Wednesday April 6, 2005
    Albert N. Shiryaev Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
    Selected topics in mathematical statistics II
    (takes place in E-225 (E-Quad) from 4:30-5:50 pm)

  • Monday April 11, 2005
    Semih O Sezer ORFE
    Disorder detection for Poisson and Wiener processes

  • Monday April 11, 2005
    Albert N. Shiryaev Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
    Selected topics in mathematical finance I
    (takes place in E-225 (E-Quad) from 4:30-5:50 pm)

  • Wednesday April 13, 2005
    Albert N. Shiryaev Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
    Selected topics in mathematical finance II
    (takes place in E-225 (E-Quad) from 4:30-5:50 pm)

  • Wednesday April 20, 2005
    Antoine Toussaint ORFE
    Monetary risk measures

  • Monday April 25, 2005
    Albina Danilova ORFE
    Weak convergence of stochastic random variables and stochastic processes

  • Wednesday April 27, 2005
    Patrick Cheridito ORFE
    Dynamic coherent risk measures
    (This talk is part of the SEAS Junior Faculty Seminar Series and is in the Friend Center Convocation Room from 12:30-1:30)

  • Monday May 2, 2005
    Mike Ludkovsky, ORFE
    Dynamic utility indifference valuation



    Fall 2004

  • Tuesday September 14, 2004
    Peter Friz NYU & Cambridge Univ.
    Volatilty Derivatives

  • Thursday September 16, 2004
    Rene Carmona ORFE
    Robust Control (after Hansen et al.)

  • Tuesday September 21, 2004
    Kian Esteghamat JP Morgan
    Threat of bankruptcy and the timing of capital investments

  • Tuesday September 28, 2004
    Alex d'Aspremont ORFE
    Pricing basket options with an application to swaptions

  • Thursday September 30, 2004
    Patrick Cheridito ORFE
    Monetary risk measures in one-period models

  • Tuesday October 5, 2004
    Patrick Cheridito ORFE
    Conditional monetary risk measures in multi-period models

  • Thursday October 7, 2004
    Patrick Cheridito ORFE
    Dynamic monetary risk measures in multi-period models

  • Tuesday October 12, 2004
    Lin Xu Morgan Stanley
    Challenges of credit basket products modeling in the real investment bank world

  • Thursday October 14, 2004
    Rene Carmona ORFE
    Filtering of diffusion processes and continuous time Markov chains

  • Tuesday October 19, 2004
    Bruno Dupire Bloomberg
    Using European options to bound the prices of exotics: A Skorohod problem approach

  • Tuesday November 2, 2004
    Mikhail Smirnov Columbia University
    Dynamic risk allocation in funds

  • Thursday November 4, 2004
    Rene Carmona ORFE
    Filtering and robust control

  • Tuesday November 9, 2004
    Peter Bank Columbia University
    Optimal control under a dynamic fuel constraint

  • Thursday November 11, 2004
    Noah Williams Princeton Econ Department
    Robust control

  • Tuesday November 16, 2004
    Bernard Lapeyre Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
    Applications of variance reduction methods to Monte Carlo computations in finance, I

  • Thursday November 18, 2004
    Bernard Lapeyre Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
    Applications of variance reduction methods to Monte Carlo computations in finance, II

  • Tuesday November 30, 2004
    Nicolas Victoir Oxford University
    Rough paths and applications to finance, I

  • Thursday December 2, 2004
    Nicolas Victoir Oxford University
    Rough paths and applications to finance, II

  • Tuesday December 7, 2004
    Albina Danilova PhD Candidate ORFE
    Title TBA

  • Thursday December 9, 2004
    Mike Ludkovski PhD Candidate ORFE
    Title TBA