Weekly Seminars

2014 – 2015

October 16, 2014   Thursday
1:20 PM
Harper Center, room HC3B
joint with the Econometrics and Statistics Workshop in the Booth School of Business

Eric Renault

Brown University

Indirect Inference for Estimating Equations


Octctober 30, 2014   Thursday
4:00 PM
5727 S University Ave, room 112

Jean Jacod

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris-6)

Estimating the degree of activity of jumps of a discretely observed semimartingale


November 6, 2014   Thursday
4:00 PM
5727 S University Ave, room 112

Dacheng Xiu

Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago

Principal Component Analysis of High Frequency Data


November 17, 2014   Monday
4:00 PM
5727 S University Ave, room 112

Sebastien Bossu

Ogee Group

Equity Correlation Modelling


March 3, 2015   Tuesday
4:00 PM
5727 S University Ave, room 112

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Princeton University

High Frequency Traders: Taking Advantage of Speed

Link to paper


March 12, 2015   Thursday
1:20 PM
Harper Center, room HC3B
joint with the Econometrics and Statistics Workshop in the Booth School of Business

Kjell G. Nyborg

University of Zurich

Collateral, Central Bank Repos, and Systemic Arbitrage

Link to paper


April 16, 2015   Thursday
4:30 PM
Eckhart Hall, room 133
Billingsley Lecture on Probability

Wendelin Werner

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Random Phenomena and Conformal Invariance Within Fractal Gaskets


May 7, 2015   Thursday
12:00 PM (noon) (new time)
5727 S University Ave, room 112

Katharine Turner

University of Chicago

PCA of persistent homology rank functions with case studies in point processes, colloids and sphere packings


May 21, 2015   Thursday
1:20 PM
Harper Center, room HC3B
joint with the Econometrics and Statistics Workshop in the Booth School of Business

Olivier Scaillet

Geneva Finance Research Institute, and Université de Genève

A diagnostic Criterion for Approximate Factor Structure

Link to paper


May 28, 2015   Thursday
3 pm
5727 S University Ave, room 112
joint with the Department of Statistics

Noureddine El Karoui

Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley

On High-Dimensional Robust Regression and Inefficiency of Maximum Likelihood Methods