Computational Finance, Spring 2012

Schedule

Thursday, January 12, 2012,
No Computational Finance Seminar

Thursday, January 19, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
José Figueroa-López, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Recent advances on the short-time behavior of option prices in the presence of jumps

Thursday, January 26, 2012, 03:00 PM in WTHR 160
Hedibert Freitas Lopes, University of Chicago
CANCELLED
Stochastic volatility models via particle methods

Thursday, January 26, 2012, 03:00 PM in WTHR 160
Frederi Viens, Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Stochastic volatility with long-memory in discrete and continuous time — Part 1

Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 02:00 PM in FORNY 1043
Axel Vischer, Eurex
Joint with CNSIP
Eurex — the European Derivatives

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
Agostino Capponi, Purdue University
Dynamic Portfolio Optimization with a Defaultable Security and Regime Switching

Thursday, February 16, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
Frederi Viens, Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Stochastic volatility with long-memory in discrete and continuous time — Part 2

Thursday, February 23, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
Andrew Vizcarra, Director of Research at D5 Advisors LLC
Seasonality, Myths, and Market Timing

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
Rong Chen, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
Dynamic modeling and prediction of risk neutral densities

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
Frederi Viens, Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Stochastic volatility with long-memory in discrete and continuous time - Part 2

Thursday, March 15, 2012,
No Computational Finance Seminar

Spring Break

Thursday, March 22, 2012,
No Computational Finance Seminar

Thursday, March 29, 2012,
No Computational Finance Seminar

Thursday, April 5, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
Michael Levine, Associate Professor of Statistics, Purdue University
Unconditional time-dependent variance as the source of financial volatility

Thursday, April 12, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
Jeff Nisen, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Optimal Thresholding For Levy Jump Diffusions Models

Thursday, April 19, 2012, 03:00 PM in REC 114
Yuhua Yu, DRW Trading Group
Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

Thursday, April 26, 2012,
No Computational Finance Seminar

Dead Week

Thursday, May 3, 2012,
No Computational Finance Seminar

Finals Week