IMS Mini-Conference

Statistics for Mathematical and Computational Finance
May 3, 2003
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

Conference Location

All activities will be in Department of Statistics, CLAS (College of Liberal Arts and Science) Building, check campus map

Registration and Lunch: CLAS 326

Talks: CLAS 108

Parking

Parking lots in front of CLAS and cross street from CLAS (other side of Route 195), on North Eagle Road. It is Saturday and you are free to park on LEGAL parking space.

Program

9:20-9:45 10:00 Registration and Refreshment, CLAS 326

9:45-10:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks, CLAS 108

10:00-11:00 Richard Bass: An Introduction to Financial Mathematics, Abstract Slide

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:15 Yacine Ait-Sahalia: Estimating Affine Multifactor Term Structure Models Using Closed-Form Likelihood Expansions Abstract

12:30-1:30 Lunch, CLAS 326

1:30-2:30 Jin-Chuan Duan: Nonparametric Option Pricing by Transformation Abstract paper

2:30-3:30 John Clapp: Alternative Models for Competing Risks of Mortgage Termination Abstract paper

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

3:45-4:30 Rustam Ibragimov: Option Bounds Abstract paper

Registration

Please fill out the registration information below and mail or email ASAP to Professor Yazhen Wang, Department of Statistics, U-4120, 215 Glenbrook Road, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, phone: (860) 486-3415, email: yzwang@stat.uconn.edu

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Please note that there is no registration fee but we will ask, either perpaid or at the conference, for a contribution of $10 to help defray expanses for refreshments and lunch. Make checks payable to Uconn-Dept. of Statistics.

Accommodation

Overnight accommodations: Nathan Hale Inn, on campus

Best Western [123 Storrs Road (Route 195), phone (860) 423-8451], 10 min drive from campus

Holiday Inn [363 Roberts, East Hartford, phone: (860) 528-9611], on I-84 and 30 min drive from campus

Travel

By air, Bradley International Airport (BDL), 45 min drive to University of Connecticut.

By train, to Hartford (30 min drive to University of Connecticuti), New Heaven (75 min) or Providence (60 min).

For drive direction please check Where we are

Conference Committee

Yazhen Wang (Conference chair)
Dipak K. Dey
Ming-Hui Chen
Vladimir Pozdnyakov