Baruch College Department of Mathematics


	Masters Program in Financial Engineering

	About Quant Network
	http://www.quantnet.org
	Quant Network is the student organization for the Master of Science Program in Financial Engineering at Baruch College. Created in 2003, Quant Network is the virtual hub for the MFE students, and is glad to serve the quantitative finance community at large. Quant Network features an active forum, an alumni portal, news and info for prospective students.
	Quant Network organizes a series of bi-weekly talks by practitioners from the financial industry.

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Recent Talks:

		03/01/07 Starting a Hedge Fund
		Speaker: Alex Gurvich (The Rockledge Group)
		Abstract: A non-technical primer on hedge funds with an introduction to the hedge fund industry and the current status of the market.

		03/09/07 My Life As A Trader
		Speaker: Curt Ward (Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities)
		Abstract: Insights in to his personal life.

		10/19/07 An American Hedge Fund
		Speaker: Timothy Sykes
		Abstract: Insights from his personal experiences in the Financial Industry..

		11/09/07 Global Credit Crisis
		Speaker: Greg Caruso (CapitalSource Finance)
		Abstract: The current status of the global credit crunch and it's effect on the US commercial real estate

		11/30/07 Interest Rate Models' Implied Volatility Function Stochastic Movements
		Speaker: Dr. Blessing Mudavanhu (Merrill Lynch)
		Abstract: Presenting a one-factor and a two factor arbitrage-free interest rate models with parsimonious implied volatility functions, analyze the implied stochastic volatility movements and describe a modeling approach that has important implications on hedging interest rate derivatives dynamically taking the stochastic volatility risk into account.
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