Seminars

2006-2007 - Financial Engineering Practitioners Seminar

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Spring

Derivatives Replication under Laplace Dynamics
SpeakerDate/Location
Peter Carr, Bloomberg
01-22-2007
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Two Topics in Finance: Siamese Twins and The Macroinvestment Function
SpeakerDate/Location
Stephen Ross, MIT
02-05-2007
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Linearity-Generating Processes: A Modelling Tool Yielding Closed Forms for Asset Prices & Why has CEO pay increased so much?
SpeakerDate/Location
Xavier Gabaix, MIT
02-19-2007
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
417 International Affairs Building, Altschul Auditorium
Equity Correlation Swaps: A New Approach For Modelling & Pricing
SpeakerDate/Location
Sebastian Bossu, Dresdner Kleinwort
02-26-2007
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
303 Mudd
Robustness and sensitivity analysis of risk measurement procedures
SpeakerDate/Location
Rama Cont, Columbia University (IEOR)
03-19-2007
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Sherlock Trader: Take-Over Sleuth
SpeakerDate/Location
Michael Lipkin, American Stock Exchange & Columbia University (IEOR)
04-09-2007
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
TBA
SpeakerDate/Location
Stephane Crepey
04-16-2007
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Where is the Option? Prepayment Modeling of MBS
SpeakerDate/Location
Andrew Kalotay, Andrew Kalotay Associates & Deane Yang, Polytechnic University
04-30-2007
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium

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Fall

Some Latest Developments in Credit Portfolio Modeling
SpeakerDate/Location
David Li, Credit Derivatives Group, Barclay Capital
09-11-2006
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 6:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Modeling Prepayments and Defaults in Mortgage
SpeakerDate/Location
Lakhbir Hayre, Citigroup
09-25-2006
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Risk Tolerance and Optimal Portfolio Choice
SpeakerDate/Location
Marek Masiela, BNP Paribas (London)
10-05-2006
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
303 Mudd
How Hedge Funds Make Money - The Long and Short of It
SpeakerDate/Location
Richard Bookstaber, FrontPoint Quantitative Fund
10-09-2006
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Hybrid and Commodity Derivatives
SpeakerDate/Location
Yaan Coatanlem, Citigroup
10-23-2006
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Mean Reversion versus Random Walk in Oil and Natural Gas Prices
SpeakerDate/Location
Hélyette Geman, Birkbeck, University of London and ESSEC Business School
11-06-2006
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR
Real-Time Volatility Estimation Under Zero Intelligence
SpeakerDate/Location
Jim Gatheral, Merrill Lynch
11-22-2006
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
Understanding Expected Option Returns
SpeakerDate/Location
Michael Johannes, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
12-04-2006
Start Time: 6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
412 Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium

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