Carnegie Mellon
Department of
       Mathematical Sciences

Probability and Mathematical Finance Seminar

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

Past Schedules

Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003

Schedule for Fall 2007

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

August 27
Marek Rutkowski, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Implied Volatility: Basic Properties and Behavior Close to Expiry

August 31, Friday at 5 P.M. in Wean Hall 6423
Marek Rutkowski, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Pricing and Hedging of Convertible Bonds with Credit Risk

September 10
Gennady Shaikhet, Carnegie Mellon University.
Control of many-servers queueing systems in heavy traffic. (Abstract)

October 1
Arka Ghosh , Iowa State University
Optimal buffer size and dynamic rate control for a queueing network with reneging in heavy traffic
Abstract

October 22
Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie Mellon University.
A model for a large investor trading at market indifference prices

October 29
Gerard Brunick, Carnegie Mellon University
Mixing Stochastic Volatility Models

November 5
David German, Carnegie Mellon University
Equilibrium based model for a large trader

November 19
Olekskii Mostovyi, Carnegie Mellon University.
On the Least Squares Monte Carlo Method.

November 26
Jose Blanchett, Columbia University
Rare-event Analysis and Simulation of Heavy-tailed Systems via Changes-of-measure

December 3
Weining Kang, Carnegie Mellon University.
Semimartingale property of a class of reflected Brownian motions via an extended Skorokhod problem

December 10
Martin Day, Virginia Tech
Boundary Conditions and Singularities for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations Arising in Queueing Games