Women and Mathematics ProgramVisit to Princeton University
Fine Hall: Monday, May 19, 2014
For more information on the Women and Mathematics Program, see https://www.math.ias.edu/wam/2014
9:45 AM: Shuttle bus pick-up at IAS. (Destination: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University.)
10:00 AM: Guided tour of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
11:30 AM: Shuttle bus pickup at PPPL. (Destination: Fine Hall, Princeton University.)
12 noon: Lunch Break:Professors’ Lounge (“PL”: Top floor/Fine Hall)
1:30 PM: “High Frequency Trading: is there still room for mathematics?”
Speaker:René Carmona
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Room: Fine 314
2:45 PM: “The Topology of the Zero Set of Random (Real) Polynomials”
Speaker:Peter Sarnak
Department of Mathematics and the Institute for Advanced Study
Room: Fine 314
4:00 PM: Tea:Common Room (Third Floor/Fine Hall)
4:30 PM: Panel Discussion: “Mathematical Opportunities in Finance”
Moderator:Inna Okounkova
Panelists:
Irina Bogacheva (QS Investors and Columbia University)
Gaye Erkan (Goldman Sachs)
Margaret Holen (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)
Inna Okounkova (AllianceBernstein and Columbia University)
Room: 138 Lewis Library (adjacent to Fine Hall; corner of Ivy
Lane and Washington Road)
6:00 PM: Dinner:Professors’ Lounge (“PL”: Top floor/Fine Hall)