Computational Finance Seminar Fall 2001-Spring 2002

September 21, 2001 4:30 p.m. in Krannert G013
Stephen Mildenhall, Vice President-Pricing, Kemper Insurance
Using FFTs to Compute Aggregate Loss Distributions − Applications from Actuarial Practice


October 3, 2001 4:30 p.m. Krannert G013
Joel Gibbons, Logistic Research & Trading Co., Elmhurst, IL
Options and Option Values Under Incomplete Information


January 23, 2002 4:30 p.m. Krannert G013
Mr. Kiseop Lee, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Joint with Research Colloquium
An overview of hedging and pricing in incomplete markets


January 28, 2002 4:30 p.m. Krannert G013
Mr. Zhengjun Zhang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Multivariate Extremes, Max-Stable Process Estimation and Dynamic Financial Modeling


February 20, 2002 4:30 p.m. in Krannert G007
Professor Luis Seco, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, and Director, University of Toronto Risk Lab
The Mathematics of Financial Risk Management


February 25, 2002 1:30 p.m. in Krannert G023
Professor Siddhartha Chib, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
Analysis of High Dimensional Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models


March 6, 2002 4:30 p.m. in Krannert G013
Professor Frederi Viens, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Joint with Research Colloquium
Branching and Interacting Particle Systems for Stochastic PDEs, and a Connection to Stochastic Portfolio Optimization?


March 30, 2002 2:30 p.m. in MATH 531
Dr. Thierry Kauffmann , Research Associate, TradeLink, Chicago, Illinois
Tales from the Trade Research in a Trading Firm


April 10, 2002 2:30 p.m. in KRAN G007
Professor William C. (Curt) Hunter , Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Contemporary Issues in Risk Management: Measurement, Management, and Macroeconomic Implications


April 15, 2002 3:30 p.m. in REC 113
Professor Philip Protter Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
Department of Statistics and Department of Mathematics and Probability Seminars
Joint with Research Colloquium
When is the Kramkov Decomposition Predictable?


April 18, 2002 4:30 p.m. in KRAN G005
Professor Ronnie Sircar, Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Approximations for Some Stochastic Control Problems in Financial Engineering