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

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

Current Schedule (Spring 2006)

Unless otherwise stated, the talks take place on Mondays at 5 P.M. in Wean Hall, 6423.
January 23
Valdo Durrleman, Stanford University.
Coupling Smiles (Abstract).
January 30
Emre Erdogan, Columbia University
Ambiguous Chance Constrained Program: Algorithms and Applications (Abstract).
February 6
Marek Rutkowski, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Hedging of credit derivatives in models with totally unexpected default (Abstract, Paper, Slides).
February 20
Jan Kallsen, Technical University of Munich.
On quadratic hedging in affine stochastic volatility models (Slides).
February 27
Jan Kallsen, Technical University of Munich.
On the structure of general mean-variance hedging strategies (Slides).
March 6
Jason Fulman, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh.
An Introduction to Stein's Method  (Abstract).
March 20
Walter Schachermayer, Technical University of Vienna.
Superhedging strategies in the presence of transaction costs.
March 27
Anand Vidyasankar, Statistics Department, Cornell University.
Large Deviations and Local Limit Theory for Explosive Processes. (Abstract).
March 29
Anand Vidyasankar, Statistics Department, Cornell University
Virtual Clinical Trials and Gibbs conditioning Principle (Abstract).
April 3
Marco Frittelli, University of Florence.
A Unified Framework for Utility Maximization Problems: An Orlicz Space Approach (Abstract).
April 10
Marco Frittelli, University of Florence.
Utility Maximization with Unbounded Semimartingales: on the Supermartingale Property and on the Indifference Price (Abstract).
April 17
Olympia Hadjiliadis, Princeton University.
Detecting a regime change & connections to mathematical finance (Abstract).
April 24
Steve Shreve, Department of Mathematical Sciences,Carnegie Mellon University.
The Double Skorohod Map and Real-Time Queues  (Abstract).
April 26
Philippe Robert, INRIA, Rocquencourt.
Data Structures, Tree Algorithms and Renewal Theorems Abstract)
May 1
Philippe Robert, INRIA, Rocquencourt
Stochastic Networks with Multiple Stable Points (Abstract).