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Computational Finance Seminars

Fall Quarter 2006


Thursday, December 07, 2006
Grant Gardner and Yuan-An Fan
Target-Date Fund Construction
MGH 238 at 4:00 P.M.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Gad Levy
Weather Derivatives: The Convergence of Insurance, Capital Market and Weather Services, an Overview
MGH 238 at 4:00 P.M.

Thursday, November 23, 2006
No seminar—Thanksgiving holiday

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Jay Henniger
Modern Interest Rate Modeling
MGH 238 at 4:00 P.M.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Terry Leitch
Methods for Introducing Correlation into Lease Valuation
MGH 238 at 4:00 P.M.

Thursday, November 2, 2006
Doug Hoch
Financial Risk Management at Microsoft
MGH 238 at 4:00 P.M.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
no seminar

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Drew Creal
Optimal filtering and smoothing of Lévy-driven stochastic volatility models incorporating power and multipower variation
MGH 238 at 4:00 P.M.

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Scott Mathews
Multi-stage Project Governance using Real Options with Bayes
MGH 238 at 4:00 P.M.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Stanislav Uryasev
Credit Risk Measures and Structured Finance
PDL C36 at 2:30 P.M.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Shengyu Zhang
Influence Functions in Finance: Statistical Analysis of Portfolio Risk Measures and Performance
MGH 238 at 4:00 P.M.