VIGRE Financial Mathematics Seminar Series


Talks for Spring 2004

Date Speaker Title
Feb. 13 Vicky Henderson (Princeton) Valuing real options without a perfect spanning asset
Feb. 17 David Hobson (University of Bath)* Arbitrage free bounds for basket options
Feb. 27 Sergei Levendorskii (UT Austin) The American put and European options near expiry, under Levy processes
Apr. 2 Sasha Stoikov (UT Austin) Augmenting your favorite price with indifference [ppt]
Apr. 21 Rama Cont (Ecole Polytechnique) Option pricing in models with jumps: integro-differential equations and numerical methods
Apr. 23 Yong Zeng (UM Kansas City) Bayesian model selection via filtering for a class of micro-movement models of asset price [figures]
May 7 Sergei Levendorskii (UT Austin) Universal bad news principle and pricing of options on dividend-paying assets
* Joint with the Finance Department Seminar.

Talks for the current semester