Conference Program
(All talks are in Buchanan 1920 on UCSB Campus)

Thursday, September 25
12:00–1:00

Registration and Bagel Brunch

1:00–1:15

Introductions

1:15–2:00

George Papanicolaou (Stanford)

Research directions in imaging

2:00–2:30

Tomoyuki Ichiba (UCSB)

Some Aspects of Universal Portfolio

2:30–3:00

Stephan Ludwig (d-fine GmbH and Stanford)

Collateralized banking

3:00–3:30

Coffee Break

3:30–4:15

Thaleia Zariphopoulou (UT Austin)

Some new results on forward performance processes

4:15–4:45

Qidi Peng (Claremont Graduate University)

A bond option pricing formula in the extended CIR model, with an application to stochastic volatility

4:45–5:15

Rohini Kumar (Wayne State)

Risk indifference price of options under fast mean-reverting stochastic volatility

5:30–7:30

Reception at Goleta State Beach

Friday, September 26
9:00–9:45

Nicole El Karoui (Université Paris 6)

Applicatons of Individual based models and population dynamics in Finance and Insurance

9:45–10:30

CH Sean Han (NTHU Taiwan)

Importance Sampling by High-Dimensional Embedding

10:30–11:00

Coffee Break

11:00–11:45

Josselin Garnier (Université Paris Diderot)

Waves and imaging in random media

11:45–12:30

André Nachbin (IMPA)

The uncertain trajectory of a pilot-wave

12:30–2:00

Lunch (Buchanan Courtyard)

2:00–2:30

Christian Keller (USC)

Viscosity solutions of Path-dependent Integro-differential Equations

2:30–3:00

Chen Pan (Berkeley)

G-Optimal Stopping Problems

3:00–3:30

Coffee Break

3:30–4:15

Jean-François Clouet (CEA France)

Radiation Waves in binary stochastic media

4:15–4:45

Laure Giovangigli (UC Irvine)

Spectroscopic imaging of a cell suspension

4:45–5:15

Yu Gu (Stanford)

Fluctuations in stochastic homogenization of operators in divergence form

6:00–9:00

Banquet Dinner at Café Stella

Saturday, September 27
9:00–9:45

Adrian Banner (INTECH)

Equity market stability

9:45–10:30

Bruno Dupire (Bloomberg)

A Few Myths in Quantitative Finance

10:30–11:00

Coffee Break

11:00–11:30

Phillip Monin (Office of Financial Research)

Hedging market risk in optimal liquidation

11:30–12:00

Kyle Bechler (UCSB)

Optimal Execution with Dynamic Order Flow Imbalance

12:00–12:30

Matt Lorig (University of Washington at Seattle)

Explicit implied volatilities for multifactor local-stochastic vol models

12:30–1:45

Lunch (Buchanan Courtyard)

1:45–2:30

Jorge P Zubelli (IMPA)

Commodities, Derivatives on Futures, and Multiscale Volatility Models

2:30–3:00

Hyungbin Park (NYU Courant)

Do Prices Determine Objective Measures?

3:00–3:30

Coffee Break

3:30–4:15

René Carmona (Princeton)

Equlibrium analysis of large population dynamics