Columbia Mathematics of Finance Practitioners Seminar, Spring 2008

 

Room 207 Mathematics Building, Tuesday, Thursday 7:40-9:00 p.m.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~smirnov/PractSeminar08.html

 

Rick Klotz (Managing Director and Senior Risk Manager, Greenwich Capital) will give minicourse

Understanding US Fixed Income Market (Mini-course with slide demonstrations)

 

January 22, Tuesday, Doug Borden, (Goldman Sachs Algorithmic Trading) Algorithmic Trading.

January 24, Thursday, Youxun Shen, (Goldman Sachs Algorithmic Trading) Review of Quantitative Trading.

January 29 Tuesday, Pantelis Troucas, (Goldman Sachs Core strategies) Review

January 31, Thursday, Mikhail Smirnov, Topics for Course Projects.

February 5, Tuesday,  Prasoon Tiwari (Alumnus) Credit Modeling

February 7, Thursday, Jan Vecer (Columbia) Drawdown Modeling

February 12, Tuesday, Claudio Albanese, (Level3 Finance) The Fundamental Problem Of Fundamental Solutions

February 14, Thursday, TBA

February 19, Tuesday, Mikhail Smirnov, Projects Question and Answers session.

February 21, Thursday, Darren Clipston, (Tallis Capital) Long/Short Equity Portfolio Management.

February 26, Tuesday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets

February 28, Tuesday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)

March 4, Tuesday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)

March 6, Thursday, TBA

March 11, Tuesday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)

March 13, Thursday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)

March 25, Tuesday, TBA

March 27, Thursday, Mark Kritzman, (Windham Capital)

April 1, Tuesday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)

April 3, Thursday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)

April 8, Tuesday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)

April 10, Thursday, Rick Klotz, (Greenwich Capital) U.S. Fixed Income Markets (Continued)

April 15, Tuesday,  Mikhail Smirnov, Dynamic Risk Allocation.

April 17, Thursday, TBA

April 22,  Tuesday, Student Project Presentations

April 24, Thursday, Student Project Presentations

April 29, Tuesday, Student Project Presentations

May 1, Thursday, Student Project Presentations

 

 

 

Speakers for other dates will be announced during the semester in class and on the website.

 

 

There is no final exam in this class. The fixed income portion of the class will have 2 homeworks and 1 takehome midterm.  These grades take 30% of the class grade (10% for each homework and midterm). 70% of the grade will be calculated on the basis of the course project. Project can be a group project of up to 4 students (similar to MAT 4071) or individual project. Students must form a group, select a topic either themselves or in consultation with prof. Smirnov, and e-mail group list, topic and proposal to prof. Smirnov by February 19.

 

The projects are due April 22 and will be presented on April 22, April 24, April 29 and May 1 in class.