Quantitative Finance on Friday

The International Center for Futures and Derivatives and the University of Chicago are sponsoring a seminar series bridging the academic and professional finance communities. The series will offer discussions of important topics concerning "where theory meets practice."

• November 9, 2007 - Andrew Lo, Harris and Harris Group Professor at MIT, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering

• January 11, 2008 - Nassim Taleb, Visiting Professor of Marketing at London Business School, Author of the Black Swan

• April 11, 2008 Kenneth Singleton, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Stanford University presenting a talk on "Why Do Risk Premiums in Sovereign Credit Markets Covary?"
• May 16, 2008 - Richard Thaler, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago presenting a talk on Behavioral Finance/Economics

Click here to register for the seminars.

Check back to this site for additions to the schedule.

Each seminar will take place in the Member's Lounge of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which is located at 20 South Wacker. The seminars will begin at 4:00 p.m. with check-in at 3:30 p.m.