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 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003

Current Schedule (Fall 2005)

Unless otherwise stated, the talks take place on Mondays at 5 P.M. in Wean Hall, 6423.

September 1, Thursday, at 5:00 P.M. in DH 4303
Steven D'Silva, Lehman Brothers.
Time Consistent and Currency Invariant Convex Risk Measures (Abstract).
September 14, Wednesday, at 4:30 P.M. in McConomy Auditorium, University Center
Nash Distinguished Lecture Series in Quantitative Finance:
Harry M. Markowitz
Portfolio Theory: Past, Present and Future .
September 26
Peter Bank, Columbia University.
On Gittins' Index Theorem in Continuous Time.
October 3
Anatoli Karolik, Carnegie Mellon University.
A Model of Correlated Credit Migrations (Abstract).
October 24
Kasper Larsen, Carnegie Mellon University.
The semimartingale property via bounded logarithmic utility (Paper).
October 31
Dmitry Ostrovsky, Lehigh University.
Option Pricing in Random Time.
November 7
Alexander Cherny, Moscow State University.
Pricing, optimality and equilibrium based on coherent risk measures. (Abstract, related papers: [1] and [2]).
November 28
Albert Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University.
Cashing out: stopping diffusion as close as possible to its max.
December 5
Sean Hilden, Carnegie Mellon University.
Allocation of Risk Capital via Intra-firm Trading (Abstract).