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Financial Engineering Seminar Series

The Financial Engineering Seminar Series is a centerpiece of the graduate Financial Engineering program of the School of Systems and Enterprises and undergraduate Quantitative Finance program of the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology.  Its mandate is to arrange talks on current research and industry trends in financial engineering and quantitative finance that will be of interest to those who work on the border of industry and academia. Wide participation has been the norm with representation from mathematics, statistics, computer science, finance, engineering and operations research. Topics have included derivatives valuation and high-risk frequency trading.

 

Talks occur on Thursday’s bi-monthly throughout the academic year and are scheduled between 5pm – 7pm (time subject to change). Each seminar is organized around a single theme with two 45-minute talks (subject to change), refreshments are provided. There is no cost to attend these seminars and everyone is welcome.  In some instances talks will be available online via WIMBA platform.   Space is limited, attendee’s must RSVP for each event.

2011 - 2012

Date / Time

Location

Speaker

Topic

5/3/2012

Babbio 122

Michel A. Robe, Associate Professor of Finance, Kogod School of Business - American University

2/23/2012 - 5:00 - 6:00

Babbio 122

Larry Tabb, Founder & CEO TABBGroup

Quants in Financial Markets – Opportunities and Trends

RSVP

12/8/2011 - 5:45 - 6:45 pm

Babbio 122 and Online via Wimba

Steve Yang, University of Virginia

Behavior Based Learning in
Identifying Algorithmic Trading Strategies

11/17/2011 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Babbio 122

Byron Baldwin, Senior Vice President, OTC Clearing and Institutional Investor Business Development, Eurex

European Financial Futures & Commodity Products, Technology and Key Structural Differences to the U.S. Marketplace


10/20/2011 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Babbio 122

Oguz Ozsahin
VP Global Merchant Services Risk,
Risk, Information and Banking, American Express Company

Consumer Credit Card Risk Overview

ARCHIVE

09/29/2011
5:30 – 6:30 pm

Babbio 122

Paul Engel, Managing Director of Appraisal Economics Inc.
Scott Vandervliet, Vice President of Appraisal Economics Inc.

Valuation Theory Applied: Valuing Technology and Complex Equity Instruments

ARCHIVE

2010 - 2011

Date / Time

Location

Speaker

Topic

05/05/2011
5:00 – 6:00 pm

Babbio 122

Rupak Chatterjee, PhD, Citi

Optimal Hedging Monte Carlo

ARCHIVE

04/07/2011
5:00 – 6:00 pm

Babbio 122

Professor Robin Lumsdaine, Crown Prince of Bahrain Professor of International Finance at American University’s Kogod School of Business

What the Market Watched: Bloomberg News Stories and Bank Returns as the Financial Crisis Unfolded

03/31/2011
5:00 – 6:00 pm

Babbio 122

Brian T. Hayes, Morgan Stanley

Quantitative Equity Hedge Funds: An Investor Perspective

02/10/2011
5:00 – 6:00 pm

Babbio 541B

Qi Wu, Applied Mathematics - Columbia University

Forward and Future Implied Volatility

12/09/2010

 

Andrei Kirilenko, Senior Financial Economist, U.S. Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Application of Machine Learning Methods to Transaction Level Data

ARCHIVE

12/02/2010
5:00 – 6:00 pm

 

Dr. Emmanuel Derman, Professor & Program Director, FE, Columbia University; Head of Risk Management, Prisma Capital Partners LP; Author, “My Life As A Quant”

Metaphors, Models & Theories in Science & Finance

10/05/2010
6:00 – 8:00 pm

 

Axel Vischer, VP Eurex & International Securities Exchange

The Role of an International Derivatives Exchange: Futures & Options Products and Trading Technology

 

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CONTACT:

Dr. Jonathan Kaufman
Affiliate Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance & Financial Engineering
Email: jonathan.kaufman(a)stevens.edu

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

  • Dr. Khaldoun Khashanah, PhD, Program Director, Financial Engineering and Distinguished Service Professor
  • Dr. Jonathan Kaufman, Affiliate Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance & Financial Engineering
  • Dr. George Calhoun, Executive-in-Residence, Quantitative Finance

 

* Please RSVP for online webinars to sse@stevens.edu in order to participate.


 

If you missed any sessions, or would like to see what topics have been covered in the last academic year, feel free to browse through our Archive as well as our Stevens iTunesU channel.