dear all, a meeting which may interest you. giulia ------------------------------- Wednesday, 12 July 2000, Lecture Theatre 2C, King's College London, at 10.00am: There will be a one-day meeting on Financial Mathematics, Wednesday 12 July, starting at 10.00am, as part of the International Conference on Disordered and Complex Systems at King's College London, 10-14 July 2000, an official satellite meeting of the XIII International Congress of Mathematical Physics, 17-22 July 2000, Imperial College, London. The meeting will be chaired by Professor Lane Hughston. Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order) include: Dr. Philippe Balland Merrill Lynch, London Levy Processes in Finance Professor Nick Bingham Department of Mathematics, Brunel University Hyperbolic and Related Distributions in Finance Dr. Dorje Brody Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, and DAMTP, Cambridge University Interest Rates and Information Geometry Professor Tom Hurd Department of Mathematics, McMaster University, Ontario Measures of Dependence for Multivariate Levy Distributions Dr. Giulia Iori Department of Accounting, Finance, and Management, University of Essex Scaling and Multi-Scaling in Financial Markets Dr. Steven Leppard Enron, London Diagrammatic Approach to Real Options Dr. Nick Webber Department of Economics, Warwick University Models of Interest Rates on Non-Linear State Spaces Dr. Gordon Woo Eqecat, London The Mathematics of Natural Catastrophes Dr. Mihail Zervos Department of Mathematics, King's College London Martingale Approach to the Pricing of Real Options The fee for the meeting is £50, payable at the time of registration. Full-time students will benefit from a reduced fee of £25. Registered participants in the Financial Mathematics meeting may, if they wish, attend other sessions of the International Conference on Disordered and Complex Systems at King's College London, 10-14 July 2000. How to get to King's College: The entrance to King's College London is on the Strand, on the south side of the Aldwich. The nearest tube stops are Temple, Charing Cross, and Covent Garden. (See also map.) How to get to Lecture Theatre 2C: Enter the glass doors of the Strand Building, pass the reception area, then proceed directly down the long corridor, and follow the signs upstairs to Room 2C. ===== ...oo000oo... Lane P. Hughston, Professor of Financial Mathematics Department of Mathematics, King's College London The Strand, LONDON WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom Office tel. (0)171 848-2855 Home address: 33 Relf Road, LONDON SE15 4JT, UK tel/fax +44 (0)171 639-0302, mobile +44 (0)468-710677 -- _____________________________________________________ Dr. Giulia Iori (Lecturer in finance) Department of Accounting, Finance and Management University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK Telephone: (44) 1206 873768 Fax: (44) 1206 873429 Email: [log in to unmask] URL: //www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/about_us/staff/iori/iori.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%