Physics Colloquium - The Intelligent Physics Student's Guide to Pricing and Hedging

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Howey Building - Room L2
Speaker
Emanuel Derman – Columbia University
Organizer

Please Note: Predrag Cvitanovic, School of Physics

The syntax of theoretical physics and modern finance is deceptively similar, but the semantics is very different. I present a short introduction to the principles of modern finance, and compare and contrast the field to physics.