Peter Carr Brooklyn Quant Experience (BQE) Seminar Series | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Peter Carr Brooklyn Quant Experience (BQE) Seminar Series

The Peter Carr BQE Seminar Series is held monthly on Thursdays at 5:00 p.m. ET.

NYU Students are highly encouraged to attend in person. All other non-NYU guests are invited to attend virtually.


Peter Carr

Upcoming Event

Renyuan Xu
Some Mathematical Results on Generative Diffusion Models
February 8, 2024

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Past Lectures

Nizar Touzi
Mean Field Game Approach to Systemic Risk Modeling
Upon the request of the speaker, this lecture was not recorded.
9/28/23

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some (Very) Practical Problems with Probability
View Recording »
10/05/23

Samim Ghamami
Skin in the Game: Risk Analysis of Central Counterparties
View Recording »
10/12/23

Rafal Sieradzki
Characteristics of Implied and Realized Volatility: the Case of Deep OTM Put Options
Upon the request of the speaker, this lecture was not recorded.
10/26/23

Bruno Kamdem
BRICS Sustainability Analytics: A Machine Learning Framework for South African ESG Factors
View Recording »
11/02/23

Samir Shah
Connecting the Dots - A Differentiated Retrospective: Economics, Money Supply and Asset Prices
Upon the request of the speaker, this lecture was not recorded.
11/09/23

Stephen Figlewski
Beyond Black and Scholes: What Can the Q-Distribution Tell Us About the Risk Neutralization Process?
View Recording »
11/16/23

Rene Aid
Equilibrium Price in Intraday Electricity Markets
11/30/23

Jianfeng Zhang
Special Seminar: A Dynamic Principal-Agent Problem with One-sided Commitment
Upon the request of the speaker, this lecture was not recorded.
12/06/23

Spring 2023

Neil Pearson
Anomalies and Their Short-Sale Costs
This lecture was not recorded.
2/02/23

Amine Mohamed Abousallah
Exploiting Structure in Reinforcement Learning to Mitigate Risk in Real-World Financial Control Problems
View Recording »
2/08/23

Kris Jacobs
Modeling Conditional Factor Risk Premia Implied by Index Option Returns
This lecture was not recorded.
2/16/23

Matt Lorig
Semi-Parametric Replication of Barrier-Style Claims on Price and Volatility
View Recording »
3/23/23

Mike Lipkin
Event-Driven Finance Trading Biotech Events at Intermediate Time-Scales
View Recording »
3/23/23

Agnes Tourin
A Monotone Finite Difference Scheme for Pairs Trading with Transaction Costs
View Recording »
4/6/23

Marcantonio Moustapha Awada
New Industry Classifications with Implications for Equity Long-Short Portfolio Construction
View Recording »
4/13/23

Nizar Touzi
On Some Problems in Financial Engineering
View Recording »
4/18/23

Cristian Homescu
Machine Learning in Quantitative Wealth and Investment Management (ML in QWIM): Hype Versus Reality
This lecture was not recorded.
4/20/23

Zev Shimko
Fintech Landscape & Deep Dive
View Recording »
5/4/23

 

Fall 2022

Emanuel Derman
A Stylized History of Quantitative Finance
9/22/22

Alex Pannier
VIX Options and Rough Volatility
9/29/22
Upon the request of the speaker, a recording is not available.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Covid: A Lesson in Risk Management
10/6/22

Liuren Wu
Common Pricing of Decentralized Risk: A New Linear Option Pricing Model
10/13/22

Sebastien Bossu
(In Memoriam) Generalizations of the Carr-Madan Spanning Formula
10/20/22

Federico Maglione
Compound Option Pricing and the Roll-Geske-Whaley Formula Under the Conjugate-Power Dagum Distribution
11/3/22

Luyao Zhang
A Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): Blockchain Decentralization and Implications for Tokeneconomy
11/17/22

Bruno Kamdem
A Reinforcement Learning Mechanism for Trading Wind Power Futures
12/1/22

Dilip Madan
High Dimensional Markovian Trading of a Single Stock
12/8/22

Luca Capriotti

A gentle introduction to Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD)
2/10/22
Upon the request of the speaker, no recording is available for this lecture.

Alex Shkolnik
James-Stein Estimation of Minimum Variance Portfolios

Alejandra Quintos Lima
Dependent Stopping Times and an Application to Credit Risk Theory.

Laura Leal
Optimal Execution with Quadratic Variation Inventories

Roza Galeeva
Oil Futures Volatility Smiles in 2020: Why the Bachelier Smile is Flatter

Stephan Sturm
When to Sell an Asset? - A Distribution Builder Approach

Leon Tatevossian
Risk and Reward in the Fixed-Income Market: Where are We Now?

Andrei Lyashenko
Bridging P-Q Modeling Divide with Factor HJM Modeling Framework
4/28/22
Upon the request of the speaker, no recording is available for this lecture.

Derek Snow
Simulacrum or Shenanigan: Deep Generative Models and Simulators for Financial Markets
5/5/22
Upon the request of the speaker, no recording is available for this lecture.

Are you interested in attending our BQE Lecture Series? Join our mailing list. Note: NYU MSFE students and faculty will automatically receive updates about our BQE Lecture Series and do not need to sign up. 

Stay up-to-date with department news whether on the go or at your desk. Follow FRE on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook. You can also watch our previous lectures on YouTube.

 

The Department of Finance and Risk Engineering at NYU Tandon provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events and services should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the accommodation need. Please email fre.communications@nyu.edu for assistance.


Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What are the Technical Errors on Covid?

Charles Fishkin
The Dysfunctional State of Risk Management Policies: What's Wrong, Why It Matters, and What Can be Done?
9/30/2021
Upon the request of the speaker, no recording is available for this lecture.

Mike Lipkin
Turbulence in Finance

Peter Carr
Optionality as a Binary Operation

David Shimko
Arbitrage-Based Derivative Pricing without Stochastic Calculus

Federico Bandi
Spectral Asset Pricing

Kim Weston
Equilibrium Existence in a Limited Participation Economy

Liuren Wu
A Factor Model of Company Valuation

Naresh Malhotra
Market Liquidity Risk in Financial Markets
11/18/2021
Upon the request of the speaker, no recording is available for this lecture.

Frederic Siboulet
Machine Learning in Financial Services
12/2/2021
Upon the request of the speaker, no recording is available for this lecture.

Bruno Kamdem
Tradable Carbon Permits Auctions Under Regulation and Competition

Keith Lewis
Managing Member, KALX, LLC

Tom Davis
Vice President, Director Research, Fixed Income and Derivatives, FactSet

Ed Weinberger
Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon FRE

Doyne Farmer
Baillie Gifford Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford

Laura Balotta
Professor, Cass Business School

Roza Galeeva
Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon FRE

Viktor Todorov
Professor of Risk Management and Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Leon Tatevossian
Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon FRE

Maggie Copeland
Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon FRE

Samim Ghamami
Senior Researcher at NYU and UC Berkeley

Sasha Stoikov
Senior Research Associate, Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan (CFEM)

George Skiadopoulos
Professor of Finance in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London

Ioana Boier
Head of Quantitative Portfolio Solutions, Alphadyne Asset Management
5/6/2021

Sandrine Ungari
MD, Societe Generale

Alexander Antonov
Chief Analyst, Danske Bank

Jon Hill
NYU Tandon

Steven Heston
Professor of Finance at University of Maryland, College Park

Pasquale Cirillo
Professor of Risk Management, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Conall O'Sullivan
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Dublin

Weilong Fu
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
10/15/2020

Bruno Kamdem
Professorial Lecturer, The George Washington University

Peter Carr
NYU Tandon, FRE Department Chair

Sanjay K. Nawalkha
Professor of Finance, University of Massachusetts

David Shimko
NYU Tandon, Industry Full Professor

Oleg Bondarenko
Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Ting Kam Leonard Wong
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
12/03/2020

Michael Konikov
Senior VP and Head of Quantitative Development Numerix
12/10/2020

The Department of Finance and Risk Engineering at NYU Tandon provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events and services should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the accommodation need. Please email fre.communications@nyu.edu for assistance.