Abstracts of the talks at the Fourth National Symposium on Financial Mathematics part of SMOCS-05

The Conference Booklet (all abstracts in one PDF file) [313KB]

Assefa, S.  A Quadratic Gaussian Reduced Form Model

Bruti-Liberati, N.,  Platen, E.  On the Approximation of Jump-Diffusion Processes

Cottrell, T. Elliott, R.  Two strikes and you're out

Dufresne, D.  Stochastic Life Annuities

El Karoui, N.  Measuring, pricing and hedging financial risk in a dynamic world

Elliott, C., Elliott, R., Malcolm, W.  Commodity Prices and Regime Switching Bases

Hamza, K., Klebaner, F.  On the existence of non-constant volatility in the Bachelier and Black-Scholes formulae

Hatherley, A.  An Examination of the Effect of Non-Normality on Optimal Portfolio Construction: A Copula Based Approach

Hinz, J.  Valuing production capacities on electricity

Hulley, H., Heath, D., Platen, E.  A comparative study of hedge performance robustness for equity index models

Imkeller, P.  Models of financial markets with asymmetric information: additional utility and entropy of information

Le, T. Stochastic Market Volatility Models

Malcolm, W., Elliott, R. Sequential Online Volatility Detection For Markov Modulated Asset Price Dynamics

Majumdar, C.  A Rehabilitation of Beta-Pricing Stochastic Syndrome

Miller, S., Platen, E. Analytic Pricing of European Contingent Claims under the Real World Measure

Miura, R.  Rank Process and Stochastic Corridor

Miyahara, Y., Moriwaki, N.  Volatility Smile/Smirk Properties of [GLP \& MEMM] Pricing Models

Novikov, A., Borovkov, K. Pricing discretely monitored exotic options under the Levy process framework

Platen, E.  On the Role of the Growth Optimal Portfolio

Schlogl, E.   Factor distributions and correlations implied by market quotes for synthetic CDO tranches

Shiryaev, A.N.  On the distributions of maximum downfalls of a Brownian motion with drift

Sorensen, M., Jacobsen, M.  Multivariate diffusion modelling

Yamazato, M. Optimal logarithmic utility for insiders in Levy market

Abstracts of the talks at the non-NSFM component of SMOCS-05

Borovkov, K. Borovkov, A. Large deviations for random walks with regular exponentially decaying distributions

Elliott, R.,  Filinkov, A., Nicholson, R. A free boundary problem related to environmental management system

Gani, J. Modelling a plantation-nursery system

Grunske, L. Modelling and Analysing of Stochastic Failures in Complex Component-Based Systems

Hwang, C.-R., Sheu, S.-J.  Nonreversible perturbations accelerate convergence

Ivanov, A.F, Swishchuk, A.V. Optimal control of stochastic differential delay equations with application in economics

Lyasoff, A. Using Bellman's Principle without the Bellman Equation

Kaji, S. On tail distributions of supremum and quadratic variation of cadlag local martingales

Kawazu, K. On stochastic processes in random environment and related topics

Korotkikh, V., Korotkikh, G. On optimality condition of complex systems

Last, G. Palm distributions and invariance properties of spatial point processes

Lesmono, D. A Mathematical Model for Opportunistic Timing and Manipulation in Australian Federal Elections

Ogawa, S. Noncausal Problems in Stochastic Calculus

Resnick, S. Multivariate heavy tails, asymptotic independence and beyond

Rueschendorf, L. Analysis of algorithms by the contraction method

Simoes, J.M. A Complex Systems Approach to Spatial Epidemics

Small, C.G. Eigenfunction methods for estimation with random fields small.pdf

Spieksma, F. Computing convergence rates for denumerable Markov chains

Tavaré, S., Wilkinson, R. Using the fossil record to date splits in the primate tree

Vatutin, V., Dyakonova, E. Branching processes in random environment and the bottleneck of evolution

Xia, A. Compound Poisson approximation via Stein's method