VIGRE Financial Mathematics Seminar Series



The seminar presents weekly lectures in Financial Mathematics by leading academic researchers and practitioners.
Time: Fridays, 12:30pm-1:30pm in RLM 12.176 (Note the change!) (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


Talks for Spring 2006

Date

Speaker

Title

Place

Time

Jan
10

Bernt Oksendal (University of Oslo, Norway)

Optimal portfolio for an insider in a jump diffusion market

RLM 12.166

1:30pm

Jan
11

Xin Guo (Cornell University)

Generalized Lando's formula: a filtration expansion perspective

RLM 12.166

1:30pm

Feb
3

Patrick Cheridito (Princeton University)

Time-consistency of indifference prices and monetary utility functions ... (preprint)

RLM 12.166 12:30pm
Feb
10
Traian Pirvu (University of British Columbia) Maximizing Portfolio Growth Rate under Risk Constraints
RLM 12.166 12:30pm
Feb
17
Herve Roche (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico) Optimal Consumption and Investment under a Drawdown Constraint ... (preprint) RLM 12.166 12:30pm
Feb
24
Kasper Larsen (Carnegie Mellon University) Are Option-pricing and Utility-maximization Problems Well-posed? ... (extended abstract)
RLM 12.166 12:30pm
Mar
10
Mingxin Xu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Risk measure pricing and hedging in incomplete markets ... (preprint) RLM 12.166 12.30pm
Apr
28
Andrew Lim (University of California at Berkeley) A relative performance approach to robust portfolio selection when there is model ambiguity
RLM 12.166 12:30pm
May
5
Sasha Stoikov (NYU) More than indifferent ... (preprint) TBA 1:30pm

 

Talks from past semesters

Fall 2005

Spring 2005
Fall 2004

Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002