The MF Colloquiums are held regularly on Mondays, 2:15-3:15, at KAP 414 (unless otherwise noted)

SPRING 2013
Date Speaker Affiliation  Title of Talk
 Comment
5/6/13 Nizar Touzi Ecole Polytechnique,France Martingale optimal transport and model-free hedging  
5/3/13 Ashan Nikeghbali University of Zurich

From CLT to Local Limit Theorems and Applications to Randon Matrix Theory and Number Theory

Friday, 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM
4/29/13 Ali Lazrak University of British Columbia

Time inconsistency with a continuum of decision makers

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4/22/13 Delia Coculescu University of Zurich

 “Changes of the filtration and the default event risk premium”

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4/19/13 Qi Zhang Fudan University

Stationary Solutions and Random Periodic
Solutions of Stochastic Equations

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 Friday, 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM
3/25/13 Qingshuo Song City University of Hong Kong

Is Quantile Hedgings always Equivalent to the Hypothesis Testing?

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3/15/13 Ioannis Karatzas Columbia University

Stable Diffusions with Rank-Based Interactions and
Models of Large Equity Markets

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Friday, 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM
3/11/13 Dmitry Kramkov Carnegie Mellon University

Integral Representation of Martingales and
Endogenous Completeness in Financial Economics

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2/25/13 Bruno Bouchard University of Paris IX, Dauphine

Target Games with Expected Loss

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2/15/13 Jiongmin Yong University of Central Florida

Stochastic Optimal Control with Time-Inconsistency

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Friday, 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM
2/4/13 Fernando Zapatero University of Southern California

Keeping Up with the Joneses Preferences:
Assest Pricing Considerations

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2/1/13 Tzu-Wei Yang Stanford University A Mean-field model of Systemic Risk  

 

FALL 2012
Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Comment
11/26/12 Fernando Zapatero University of Southern California
(CANCELLED)
(CANCELLED)
 (CANCELLED)
11/19/12 Yilmaz Kocer University of Southern California

Endogenus Learning with Bounded Memory

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11/5/12 Arash Fahim University of Michigan

Analysis of a Monte Carlo method for fully
nonlinear parabolic and elliptic PDEs

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10/22/12 Kay Giesecke Stanford University Fluctuation Analysis for the Loss From Default  
10/9/12

Morgan Stanley Recruiting Event

10/8/12 Weidong Tian University of North Carolina

Contingent Capital with Endogenous Trigger

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9/17/12 Erhan Bayraktar University of Michigan

On the Multi-Dimensional Controller and Stopper Games
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SPRING 2012
Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Comment

4/16/12

Yingying Fan

USC Marshall School of Business

Testing and Detecting Jumps Based on a Discretely Observed Process

 

3/26/12

Henry Schellhorn

Claremont Graduate University

A numerical scheme to solve smooth BSDEs: Applications to path-dependent American option pricing and beyond

 

2/17/12

Philip Protter

Columbia University

Can one detect a bubble in real time?

Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM

2/13/12

Kamal Hamdan

Goldman

Modeling Capital Structure in Commodities Intensive Companies

 
2/6/12 Carol Bernard University of Waterloo, Canada

Optimal Portfolios under Worst Case Scenarios

 
1/27/12 Joscha Diehl TU Berlin

Rough Path Theory

Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM

 

FALL 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Comment
11/28/11 Marcel Nutz Columbia University Duality and Superreplicaton under Model Uncertainty  
11/18/11 George Yin Wayne State University Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM
11/4/11 Richard Sowers University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM
10/17/11 Erhan Bayraktar University of Michigan  
10/7/11 Alain Bensoussan University of Texas, Dallas Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM
10/3/11 Monday 4:30- 6 PM
9/23/11 Dilip Madan University of Maryland Capital Minimization as a Hedging Criterion Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM
9/12/11 Yaozhong Hu University of Kansas Optimal time to invest with advanced information  

 

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SPRING 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Comment
4/22/11 Shige Peng Shandong University, China BSDE, PDE and Nonlinear Expectations Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM
4/18/11 Thorsten Hens University of Zurich and Swiss Banking Institute The Dark Side of the Moon:  Structured Products from the Customer's Perspective  
4/11/11 Igor Cialenco Illinois Institute of Technology New Dynamic Measures of Performance and Risks in Financial Markets  
4/1/11 Rama Cont Columbia Univ/CNRS France Functional Ito Calculas Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM
3/28/11 Min Dai National University of Singapore Optimal Consumption and Investment with Differential Long-term and Short-term Tax Rates  
3/11/11 Qing Zhang University of Georgia Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM
2/28/11 Zhaunzin Ding Analytic Investors, Los Angeles The Fundamental Law of Active Portfolio Management  
2/7/11 Kay Giesecke Stanford University

Exploring The Sources of Default Clustering

(Cancelled)
 

 

FALL 2010

Date Speaker Affilation Title of Talk Comment
12/6/10 Shaolin Ji Shandong University, China and Boston University Ambiguous Volatility, Possibility and Utility in Continuous Time  
11/16/10 Tuesday,
12:00-4:30
11/15/10 Olaf Menkens Dublin City University, Ireland Optimising Proportional Reinsurance Using a Worst Case Scenario Approach  
11/8/10 Marco Fritelli University of Milano, UCSB On Quasiconvex Dynamic Risk Measures  
10/29/10 Steven Kou Columbia University Pricing Asian Options under a General Jump Diffusion Model Friday,
3:30-4:30
10/22/10 Michael Magill USC Reforming Capitalism Friday,
3:30-4:30
10/11/10 Mihai Sirbu UT Austin Optimal investment with high-watermark performance fee  
9/24/10
20th Anniversary Celebration of CAMS
Friday,
3:30-4:30
9/13/10 Zhen Wu Shandong University, China BSDEs with Markov Chains and Application to Homogenization of PDEs System  
9/3/10 T. I. Lai Stanford University Sequential Monte Carlo methods for rare event simulation Friday, 3:30PM- 4:30PM


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