Spring 2002
Tuesdays 12:15 Goldwater 604
(Supported in part by the Systems Science and Engineering Research Center)
Seminar Schedule:<http://math.la.asu.edu/~tom/cognition/math+cogsched.html>
The Mathematics and Cognition, Joint with the Stochastic Modeling Seminar Series, will
present our next lecture on Tuesday, February 12, at 12:15 PM in GWC 604.
Our speaker will be Murat Kulahci of the Department of Industrial Engineering,
who will speak on the topic:
"A brief introduction to financial engineering"
Abstract.
| Financial Engineering is an emerging field mostly within Industrial
Engineering and Operations Research.
Some engineering programs have already started offering Master's degree
for the qualified students with good
quantitative backgrounds. The field offers myriad of opportunities for
engineers, mathematicians, physicists
and computer scientists to apply their knowledge. From modeling the
yield curves for fixed income securities to
pricing exotic derivatives, the application areas seem endless.
The main emphasis of the talk will be on portfolio management and asset allocation problems. In stock picking problems, the "quantitative analyst" is usually faced with two issues: alpha modeling (modeling residual returns) and risk modeling (diversifying the risk by appropriately distributing the weights in the portfolio). In this talk, quantitative screening techniques for stock picking will be discussed. |