ICFD Past Events

• Center Co-Sponsors Seminar Series
  Beginning in September, the ICFD will resume its Quantitative Finance on Fridays seminar series at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
  
  
• Center to Host and Sponsor the Chicago/London Conference On Financial Markets
  The ICFD will co-sponsor the Chicago/London conference 1 "What Went Wrong? Financial Engineering, Financial Econometrics, and the Current Stress" on Financial Markets on December 6 and 7 at Cass Business School and host the Chicago/London conference 2 on May 1 and 2.
  

• Center Sponsored FERM 2008
  The ICFD will again co-sponsor the International Symposium on Financial Engineering and Risk Management 2008 (FERM2008), in Shanghai, China.

• Quantitative Finance on Fridays
  Richard Thaler, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago presented a talk on Behavioral Finance/Economics on May 16th, 2008.

• Quantitative Finance on Fridays
  Kenneth Singleton, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Stanford University presented a talk on "Why Do Risk Premiums in Sovereign Credit Markets Covary?" on April 11th, 2008

• Quantitative Finance on Fridays
  Nassim Taleb, Visiting Professor of Marketing at London Business School, presented his thoughts and theories on trading and investment as outlined in his book the Black Swan on January 11th, 2008.

• Conference Held in Honor of Pliska
  The International Center for Futures and Derivatives will co-sponsor "Recent Advances in Mathematical Finance: Conference in Honor of Stan Pliska" on December 7-8, 2007 in Chicago.

• Quantitative Finance on Fridays
  Andrew Lo, Harris and Harris Group Professor at MIT, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering presented "What happened to the Quants in August 2007" on November 9, 2007 at the Chicago Board Options Exchange.