Center for Analytical Finance, Department of Economics, University of Aarhus, Building 350, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Email: caf@cls.dk, phone: +45 - 8942 - 1580, fax: +45 - 8613 - 6334. http://www.caf.dk. Main purpose: strenghten research in both theoretical and applied finance in Denmark.
Prof. Dr. Claudia Cottin - Investitions- und Kapitalanlage-Management - Innovative Finanz- und Versicherungsprodukte - Anwendungen der Approximationstheorie in der Finanz- und Versicherungsmathematik. phone: -7413/-7404
Professor of Finance: Stanley R. Pliska, phone, messages and fax: -996-7170, mail: srpliska@uic.edu, http://www.uic.edu/~srpliska/. Risk Sensitive Portfolio Management, Dynamic Asset Allocation with Imperfect Information, Portfolio Management with Taxes and Transaction Costs, Interest Rate Derivatives and Term Structure Models.
AF Collins Professor of Finance: Robert J. Elliott, phone - 0909 or -5811, fax: -6826. Stochastic processes and their applications in finance and engineering, American options, term structure, estimation of volatility, value-at-risk. http://vega.math.ualberta.ca/~relliott/
Financial Engineering program at the University of Twente (The Netherlands), Enschede. A two-year program entirely taught in English and jointly offered by the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Department of Finance and Accounting with common courses and specialization courses. Students integrate the tools learned in class and apply them to a real-world financial engineering problem during the research-oriented internship, which is the final step before graduating. More information is available at http://www.felab.utwente.nl/.
Department of Mathematics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstrasse 1½, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Professor of Mathematical Finance, Insurance and Stochastics: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stummer, phone +49-9131-85-22503, fax +49-9131-85-26214, http://www.mi.uni-erlangen.de/~stummer. Pricing of derivative securities, operational risk, financial decision and information theory, statistics of financial processes, term structure of interest rates, risk theory and risk management.
Prof. Dr. Ernst Eberlein, phone - 5660, fax: -5661. Analyse und Modellierung von Finanzdaten. Überprüfung von klassischen Verteilungsannahmen, Konstruktion von realistischen Modellen, die das Sprungverhalten mitbeschreiben, Bewertung moderner Finanzinstrumente und deren Kombinationen, Financial Engineering. Check the section on Hyperbolic Distributions and Levy Processes of the Center for Data Analysis and Modelling.
Stochastic Control and Mathematical Finance: Prof. Dr. Ralf Korn, phone - 2747. Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Control, Impuls Control, Quasi-variational Inequalitites and Viscisity Solutions. http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ ~korn/
The Mathematical Trading and Finance MSc in City University Business School (London) is a course focusing on derivatives valuation, asset management and risk analysis within a high level mathematical framework. For information about this course visit the following links:
Prof. Dr. Antoon Pelsser, phone: (+31) 10 - 408 1259, fax: (+31) 10 - 408 9162, email: pelsser@few.eur.nl. http://www.eur.nl/few/people/pelsser/ pricing models for interest rate derivatives and the application of interest rate derivatives to the hedging of (interest rate) risk of insurance contracts.
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5015, USA
Darrell Duffie, phone +1-415-723-1976, fax: -725-7979, mail: duffie@stanford.edu, http://www.stanford.edu/~duffie. Incomplete security markets, financial risk management, capital asset pricing theory, the dynamic spanning role of security markets, preference theory under uncertainty, security design, term structures of interest rates, credit risk modeling, including valuation of corporate and sovereign debt and credit derivatives.
Department of Statistics and Mathematics, University of Turin, Piazza Arbarello, 8, 10122 Torino, Italy
Professor of Mathematical Methods for Finance: Dr. Prof. Elisa Luciano, phone +31-11-670-6235, fax +39-11-670-6238, mailto:luciano@econ.unito.it, http://web.econ.unito.it/gma/elisa.htm. Value at Risk, Risk Measurement, Correlation measurement in financial markets, Transaction Cost Models, Copula Functions
University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS. +44(171)911-5020, fax: -5703. mailto:mrdmark@wmin.ac.uk, http://www.wmin.ac.uk. Contact the admission and marketing office for for the MSc Quantitative Finance.
The Hugo Steinhaus Center for Stochastic Models in Science and Technology, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland. Tel +48 (71) 320-3183, -3530, Fax: -2654. Current research activities include: Alternative option pricing formulas, scaling properties of financial time series, insurance risk models, limiting distributions of random walks, self-similar processes, alpha-stable distributions and processes, elliptically contoured measures and processes, quantum probability, dependence structure for stable ARMA processes, approximation of stochastic differential equations, computer simulations of highly volatile phenomena.
NCCR FINRISK: http://www.nccr-finrisk.unizh.ch/. National Centre of Competence in Research "Financial Valuation and Risk Management"; Swiss Research Network on a wide variety of Finance related topics, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (link: http://www.snf.ch/default_en.asp) contact: Eckart Jäger NCCR FINRISK Administration Plattenstr.14 CH-8032 Zürich phone: ++41-1-634 39 55 fax: ++41-1-634 43 45 email: jaeger@nccr-finrisk.ch
risklab germany: RiskLab GmbH (München)- Private Research Institute for Financial Studies is a research and consulting institute which was formed in 1997 as a subsidiary of Allfonds International Asset Management GmbH. On the basis of our primary research in the areas of risk management, portfolio management and financial engineering they are able to offer consulting, solutions, implementation and training from one central point. Within the framework of a strategic partnership with Algorithmics Inc., Toronto, risklab germany is part of a worldwide research federation of well-known universities.