VIGRE Financial Mathematics Seminar Series



The seminar presents weekly lectures in Financial Mathematics by leading academic researchers and practitioners.
Time: Fridays, 10:30am-12:00noon in RLM 11.176 (the exact time and location is subject to changes)
Contact: The organizers are Thaleia Zariphopoulou and Gordan Zitkovic. For further information or to be included in the seminar email list, please contact us at gordanz@math.utexas.edu . Click on the title of talk for more information (abstract, preprints, etc).


Talks for Fall 2006

 Date   Speaker   Title   Time   Place 
 09/18/2006   Jianfeng Zhang 
(University of Southern California) 
  A probabilistic numerical algorithm for high dimensional FBSDEs and quasilinear PDEs   1:30pm   RLM 9.166 
 09/22/2006   Mihai Sirbu 
(Columbia University) 
  Asymptotic analysis of utility-based hedging strategies for small number of contingent claims   10:30am   RLM 11.176 
 10/13/2006   Claudio Albanese 
(Imperial College London) 
  A modeling framework for synthetic CDOs and other long-dated structured products   10:30am   CBA 4.304 
 10/31/2006   Monique Jeanblanc 
(Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne) 
  Hedging Defaultable Claims   1:00pm   RLM 12.176 
 11/03/2006   Monique Jeanblanc 
(Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne) 
  Arbitrage Pricing of Defaultable Game Options With Applications to Convertible Bonds   10:30pm   RLM 11.176 
 11/21/2006   Jin Feng 
(Kansas University) 
  Large deviations, variational problems and Hamilton-Jacobi equations   1:00pm   RLM 12.176 

Talks from past semesters

Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002