Peter Carr Seminar Series
The Peter Carr Seminar Series is held monthly on Wednesdays at 5:00 p.m. ET unless otherwise noted. These seminars will be held in person at NYU Tandon and virtually.
Spring 2025
Ronnie Sircar and Ruimeng Hu
Anran Hu and Yu Yu
January 29, 2025
Petter Kolm & Sebastien Boss
April 9, 2025
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Past Lectures
Fall 2024
John Birge
10/9/24
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Chao Zhou & Eric Liverance
10/15/24
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Ben Hoff & Edward Weinberger
November 20, 2024
Spring 2024
February 8, 2024:
Renyuan Xu, "Some Mathematical Results on Generative Diffusion Models"
Upon request of the speaker, this lecture was not recorded.
February 22, 2024:
Farid AitSahlia, "American Options Under Stochastic Volatility: Parameter Estimation and Pricing Efficiency"
Upon request of the speaker, this lecture was not recorded.
Thomas Philips, "Ultra-Simple Shiller's Cape: How One Year's Data Can Predict Equity Market Returns Better Than Ten"
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February 29, 2024:
Xin Zhang, "Wasserstein Space of Stochastic Processes"
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April 25, 2024:
Florian Bourgey, "Smile Dynamics in Rough Volatility Models"
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Fabrice Fiol, "Enterprise Risk Management & Stress Testing: The Road Ahead"
Upon request of the speaker, this lecture was not recorded.
May 8, 2024:
Jussi Keppo, "The Wisdom of Strategically Diverse Crowds"
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Joshua Reed, "Modeling a Two-Sided Limit Order Book in the High Frequency Regime"
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Fall 2023
Mean Field Game Approach to Systemic Risk Modeling
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Characteristics of Implied and Realized Volatility: the Case of Deep OTM Put Options
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BRICS Sustainability Analytics: A Machine Learning Framework for South African ESG Factors
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Connecting the Dots - A Differentiated Retrospective: Economics, Money Supply and Asset Prices
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Beyond Black and Scholes: What Can the Q-Distribution Tell Us About the Risk Neutralization Process?
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Equilibrium Price in Intraday Electricity Markets
Special Seminar: A Dynamic Principal-Agent Problem with One-sided Commitment
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Spring 2023
Spring 2023
Exploiting Structure in Reinforcement Learning to Mitigate Risk in Real-World Financial Control Problems
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Modeling Conditional Factor Risk Premia Implied by Index Option Returns
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Semi-Parametric Replication of Barrier-Style Claims on Price and Volatility
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Event-Driven Finance Trading Biotech Events at Intermediate Time-Scales
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A Monotone Finite Difference Scheme for Pairs Trading with Transaction Costs
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New Industry Classifications with Implications for Equity Long-Short Portfolio Construction
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Machine Learning in Quantitative Wealth and Investment Management (ML in QWIM): Hype Versus Reality
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Fall 2022
Fall 2022
VIX Options and Rough Volatility
Common Pricing of Decentralized Risk: A New Linear Option Pricing Model
(In Memoriam) Generalizations of the Carr-Madan Spanning Formula
Compound Option Pricing and the Roll-Geske-Whaley Formula Under the Conjugate-Power Dagum Distribution
A Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): Blockchain Decentralization and Implications for Tokeneconomy
Spring 2022
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James-Stein Estimation of Minimum Variance Portfolios
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Dependent Stopping Times and an Application to Credit Risk Theory.
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Optimal Execution with Quadratic Variation Inventories
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Oil Futures Volatility Smiles in 2020: Why the Bachelier Smile is Flatter
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When to Sell an Asset? - A Distribution Builder Approach
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Risk and Reward in the Fixed-Income Market: Where are We Now?
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Bridging P-Q Modeling Divide with Factor HJM Modeling Framework
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Simulacrum or Shenanigan: Deep Generative Models and Simulators for Financial Markets
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Fall 2021
What are the Technical Errors on Covid?
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The Dysfunctional State of Risk Management Policies: What's Wrong, Why It Matters, and What Can be Done?
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Turbulence in Finance
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Optionality as a Binary Operation
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Arbitrage-Based Derivative Pricing without Stochastic Calculus
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Spectral Asset Pricing
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Equilibrium Existence in a Limited Participation Economy
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A Factor Model of Company Valuation
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Market Liquidity Risk in Financial Markets
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Machine Learning in Financial Services
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Tradable Carbon Permits Auctions Under Regulation and Competition
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Spring 2021
Managing Member, KALX, LLC
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Vice President, Director Research, Fixed Income and Derivatives, FactSet
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Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon FRE
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Baillie Gifford Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
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Professor, Cass Business School
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Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon FRE
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Professor of Risk Management and Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon FRE
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Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon FRE
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Senior Researcher at NYU and UC Berkeley
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Senior Research Associate, Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan (CFEM)
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Professor of Finance in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London
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Head of Quantitative Portfolio Solutions, Alphadyne Asset Management
MD, Societe Generale
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Fall 2020
Chief Analyst, Danske Bank
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NYU Tandon
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Professor of Finance at University of Maryland, College Park
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Professor of Risk Management, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
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Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Dublin
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Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
Professorial Lecturer, The George Washington University
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NYU Tandon, FRE Department Chair
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Professor of Finance, University of Massachusetts
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NYU Tandon, Industry Full Professor
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Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Senior VP and Head of Quantitative Development Numerix
The Department of Finance and Risk Engineering at NYU Tandon provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events and services should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the accommodation need. Please email fre.communications@nyu.edu for assistance.