VIGRE Financial Mathematics Seminar Series


Talks for Fall 2004

Date Speaker Title
Sep. 17 Dirk Becherer (Imperial College) Hedging and valuation by reaction diffusion systems in models with interacting Ito and point processes
Sep. 23 Dirk Becherer (Imperial College) Utility indifference hedging and valuation
Sep. 24 Rene Carmona (Princeton University) Portfolio optimization in incomplete markets with partial observations
Oct. 1 Steven Shreve (Carnegie Mellon) Perpetual convertible bonds
Oct. 8 Dmitry Kramkov (Carnegie Mellon) Sensitivity analysis of utility based prices and risk-tolerance wealth processes
Oct. 20 Herve Roche (ITAM) Optimum consumption and portfolio rules under incomplete information
Oct. 22 Gordon Zitkovic (Carnegie Mellon) Financial equilibria with jumps
Nov. 5 Henrik Shahgholian (KTH) Free boundary regularity for parabolic obstacle problem and American type options
Dec. 3 Jianfeng Zhang (USC) Continuous time principal-agent problem: an FBSDE approach

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