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Financial Mathematics Seminars


Jan 15 2026

Organizational Meeting
Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
Jan 22 2026
Arash Fahim
Principal-agent problem: abstraction and rigor
Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
We review the advances in mathematical formulation of continuous-time principle-agent problem in the recent decade and provide a template for writing agency problems in a rigorous fashion. We present ... More
Jan 29 2026
Ali Kara

Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
Feb 5 2026
Lingjiong Zhu
VIX Options in the Short-Maturity Regime
Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
We derive the short-maturity asymptotics for VIX option prices in local-stochastic volatility models. Both out-of-the-money (OTM) and at-the-money (ATM) asymptotics are considered. Using large deviati... More
Feb 19 2026
Navid Bahadoran

Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
Feb 26 2026
Petter Kolm (NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
TBA
Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
Mar 5 2026
Ololade Sowunmi

Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
Mar 12 2026
Gökçe Dayanıklı (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
Apr 9 2026
Xin Zhang (New York University)
TBD
Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
Apr 16 2026
Munawar Ali

Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231
Apr 23 2026
Daniel Mazus

Financial MathTime: 3.05
Location: LOV 231