Oxford Crest
Princeton Crest

4th Oxford-Princeton Workshop

Oxford University, May 18-19 2007

Sponsored by Credit Suisse

Organised by: Albina Danilova, Sam Howison

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Programme & Talks


Friday May 18th


9.15 - 9.30 Welcome
9.30 - 10.15 Ronnie Sircar (Princeton University) "Utility Valuation of Credit Derivatives"
10.15 - 10.35 Patrick Hewlett (University of Oxford) "Optimal liquidation against a Markovian limit order book"


10.35 - 11.05 Coffee


11.05 - 11.25 Siu Tang Leung (Princeton University) "Accounting for Risk Aversion and Other Idiosyncrasies in the Valuation of Employee Stock Options"
11.25 - 12.20 Albina Danilova (University of Oxford) "Insider Trading on Stock Market in Continuous Time with Imperfect Dynamic Information"
12.20 - 12.40 Klaus Schmitz (University of Oxford) "Pricing Exotic Options Using Strong Convergence Properties"
12.40 - 1.00 Denis Zuev (University of Oxford) "Robust Portfolio selection via Utility optimisation with smaller uncertainty sets"


1.00 - 2.30 Lunch


2.30 - 3.15 Birgit Rudloff (Princeton University) "Hedging in Incomplete Markets with Convex Risk Measures."
3.15 - 3.35 Michael Coulon (University of Oxford) "A Supply and Demand Approach to Modelling Electricity Prices."
3.35 - 3.55 Antoine Toussaint (Princeton University) "Hedging with L2 Convex Risk Measure"


3.55 - 4.25 Tea


4.25 - 5.10 Rene Carmona (Princeton University) "No-arbitrage Dynamics for the Local Volatility Surface in Equity Markets"
5.10 - 5.55 Vicky Henderson (University of Warwick) "Takeovers, Gambling and Risk Aversion"






Saturday May 19th


9.00 - 9.45 Jianqing Fan (Princeton University) "Option Pricing with Aggregation of Physical Models and Statistical Learning"
9.45 - 10.05 Helen Haworth (University of Oxford) "Modelling Basket Credit Default Swaps with Default Contagion"
10.05 - 10.25 Nitin Saksena (Princeton University) "Minimum Entropy Calibration of a Point Process Model for CDO Pricing"
10.25 - 10.45 Lajos Gergely Gyurko (University of Oxford) "Rough Paths based strong Monte Carlo methods for solving SDEs"
10.45 - 11.05 Sergey Nadtochiy (Princeton University) "Estimation of the Local Volatility Surface"


11.05 - 11.30 Coffee


11.30 - 12.15 Mike Tehranchi (University of Cambridge) "A Characterization of Dynamic Forward Utilities"
12.15 - 1.00 Antony Ware (University of Oxford) "Continuously-exercised options"


1.00 - 2.30 Lunch




Participants
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Rene Carmona, Princeton University
Eleftheria Chatzipanagou, University of Greenwich
Michael Coulon, University of Oxford
Albina Danilova, University of Oxford
Lei, Duan University of Oxford
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
Mike Giles, University of Oxford
Alok Gupta, University of Oxford
Lajos Gergely Gyurko, University of Oxford
Ben Hambly, University of Oxford
Helen Haworth, University of Oxford
Vicky Henderson, University of Warwick
Patrick Hewlett, University of Oxford
David Hobson, University of Warwick
Sam Howison, University of Oxford
Lei Jin, University of Oxford
Silja Kinnebrock, University of Oxford
Wai Fung Lam, Princeton University
Siu Tang Leung, Princeton University
Terry Lyons, University of Oxford
Michael Monoyios, University of Oxford
Sergey Nadtochiy, Princeton University
Mario Nardone, University of Oxford
Kevin Parrott, University of Greenwich
Christoph Reisinger, University of Oxford
Birgit Rudloff, Princeton University
Nitin Saksena, Princeton University
Klaus Schmitz, University of Oxford
Till Schröter, University of Oxford
Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University
Simona Svoboda-Greenwood, University of Oxford
Mike Tehranchi, University of Cambridge
Jochen Theis, Merrill Lynch, London
Antoine Toussaint, Princeton University
Tony Ware, Univ of Calgary, Canada
Tak Yu, University of Oxford
Chongrui Zhou, University of Oxford

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