VIGRE Financial Mathematics Seminar Series


Talks for Spring 2005

Date Speaker Title Place Time
Jan. 10 Tomas Bjork (Stockholm) Interest Rate Theory, Part I RLM 11.176 10:30am
Jan. 12 Tomas Bjork (Stockholm) Interest Rate Theory, Part II RLM 11.176 10:30am
Jan. 14 Tomas Bjork (Stockholm) Interest Rate Theory, Part III RLM 11.176 10:30am
Jan. 21 Antje Berndt (Cornell)+ Measuring default risk premia from default swap rates and EDFs RLM 11.176 1pm
Jan. 28 Jean-Pierre Fouque (NCSU) A perturbation approach to hedging under stochastic volatility RLM 11.176 1pm
Feb. 11 Mihai Sirbu (Columbia) A two-person game for pricing convertible bonds RLM 11.176 1pm
Feb. 18 Virginia Young (Michigan) Minimizing the probability of lifetime ruin under borrowing constraints RLM 11.176 12pm
Mar. 4 Steve Kou (Columbia)+# A tale of two growths: Modeling stochastic endogenous growth RLM 11.176 12pm
Apr. 1 Xin Guo (Cornell) Information reduction in credit risk RLM 11.176 1pm
Apr. 15 Simon Brendle (Princeton) Portfolio optimization under incomplete information RLM 11.176 1pm
Apr. 18 Ronnie Sircar (Princeton) Valuation of employee stock options RLM 11.176 1pm
Apr. 22 Peter Bank (Columbia) Optimal control under a dynamic fuel constraint RLM 11.176 1pm
# Joint with the Operations Research Department Seminar.
+ Joint with the MSIS Department Seminar.

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