Optimal Stopping and Related Fields Seminar

Spring 2026


Welcome to the 'Optimal Stopping and Related Fields Seminar,' organized by Steven Campbell, Georgy Gaitsgori, and Ioannis Karatzas.

The seminar meets in-person in Columbia University on Firdays at 4:45 pm in Math room 520.

This seminar is the logical continuation of the seminar held in Fall 2025 - Optimal Stopping Seminar - Fall 2025.

If you would like to come or to be added on the mailing list, please email gg2793@columbia.edu.

Next Seminar

Date and time Speaker Title and abstract
Friday, February 6, 4:45 pm Yuqiong Wang (University of Michigan)

Upcoming Seminars

Date and time Speaker Title and abstract
Friday, February 13, 4:45 pm Steven Campbell (Columbia University)

Friday, February 20, 4:45 pm Karl Kristian Engelund (University of Copenhagen)

Friday, February 27, 4:45 pm David Itkin (LSE)

Friday, March 6, 4:45 pm Richard Groenewald (Bank of America)

Friday, March 13, 4:45 pm Tiziano De Angelis (University of Torino)

Friday, March 20, 4:45 pm No seminar (Spring break)

Friday, April 3, 4:45 pm Erhan Bayraktar (University of Michigan)

Friday, April 10, 4:45 pm Tomoyuki Ichiba (University of California Santa Barbara)

Friday, April 17, 4:45 pm Georgy Gaitsgori (Columbia University)

Friday, April 24, 4:45 pm Philip A. Ernst (Imperial College London)

Friday, May 1, 4:45 pm Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia University)

Past Seminars

Date and time Speaker Title and abstract
Friday, January 30, 12:15 pm Goran Peskir (University of Manchester) The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process

A long-standing open problem of L. E. Dubins seeks to determine the maximal expected range of Walsh's spider process on n edges per root of the expected stopping time. The solution is known for n=1 (1988) and n=2 (2009). In this talk I will present the solution for n>=3.