Carnegie Mellon
Department of
       Mathematical Sciences

Probability and Mathematical Finance Seminar

If you have questions or suggestions about the seminar, please contact the organizers: Kavita Ramanan (Probability) and Dmitry Kramkov (Mathematical Finance).
Information for outside speakers or visitors can be found here.

Past Schedules

Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003

Current Schedule (Fall 2004)

Unless otherwise stated, the talks take place on Mondays at 5 P.M. in Porter Hall, A20.

October 11
Gordan Zitkovic, Carnegie Mellon University.
Financial equilibria in complete semimartingale markets
October 18
Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie Mellon University.
Sensitivity analysis of utility based prices and risk-tolerance wealth processes
October 25
Muzaffer Akat, Carnegie Mellon University.
A Unified Credit Risk Model: A Structural Model with Stochastic Volatility and A Reduced Form Model with Stochastic Intensity
November 1
Robert Almgren, University of Toronto.
Optimal Portfolios from Ordering Information
November 8
Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University.
Optimal Investment with Derivative Securities
November 15
Adam Speight, Carnegie Mellon University.
A Multigrid strategy for calibrating financial models
December 6
Louis Scott, Morgan Stanley.
Evaluation of credit derivatives.