Seminars in the past: Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005.

Seminars for Spring 2006.

Unless otherwise noted, talks will be between 5 and 6 p.m. on Mondays in Wean Hall 6423.

January 23
Valdo Durrleman, Stanford University.
Coupling Smiles.
January 30
Applied Probability Seminar: Emre Erdogan, Columbia University
Ambiguous Chance Constrained Program: Algorithms and Applications
February 6
Marek Rutkowski, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Hedging of credit derivatives in models with totally unexpected default (Paper in .pdf, (Slides in .pdf).
February 20
Jan Kallsen, Technical University of Munich.
On quadratic hedging in affine stochastic volatility models.
February 27
Jan Kallsen, Technical University of Munich.
On the structure of general mean-variance hedging strategies.
March 20
Walter Schachermayer, Technical University of Vienna.
Superhedging strategies in the presence of transaction costs
April 3
Marco Frittelli, University of Florence.
A Unified Framework for Utility Maximization Problems: An Orlicz Space Approach
April 10
Marco Frittelli, University of Florence.
Utility Maximization with Unbounded Semimartingales: on the Supermartingale Property and on the Indifference Price
April 17
Olympia Hadjiliadis, Princeton University.
Detecting a regime change & connections to mathematical finance