Columbia University

    Statistics Department

    Fall 2003 Probability Seminar Series

    Fridays 11:00- 12:15pm, Room 520 Mathematics Building

    Tea and Coffee will be served before the seminar at 10:30 AM in Room 621 Mathematics Building

    • September 5: Professor Yoav Freund, Computer Science, Columbia University
    • TITLE: "How to be a Bayesian without believing"

    • September 12: Professor David Hobson, University of Bath and Princeton
    • TITLE:" A comparison of q-optimal measures in stochastic volatility models"

    • September 19: Professor Peter Bank, Humboldt and Columbia University
    • TITLE:"Gittins Indices for American Options: A New Approach to Optimal Stopping"

    • September 26: TBA
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    • October 3: TBA
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    • October 10: Professsor Guasoni, University of Pisa and Boston
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    • October 24: Professor Thaleia Zariphopoulou, University of Austin Texas
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    • October 31: Prof. Ulrich Horst, Humboldt and Princeton University
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    • November 7: Tenth Annual CAP Workshop on Derivative Securities and Risk Management

    • November 14: Professor Philip Protter, Cornell University
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    • Joint Colloqium with Applied Mathematics

    • November 21: Prof. Patrick Cheridito, Princeton University
    • TITLE: "Coherent and convex risk measures for continuous-time stochastic processes"

    • November 28: Thanksgiving Holiday

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