Ph.D. Defense- March 28, 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014 (2:30 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Multi-Scale Modeling and Analysis of Options Markets Speaker: Charles Joseph (Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: The fundamental question addressed in this thesis is: How does the mood of the traders affect a derivative markets? In lack of a reliable ground truth, a modeling-based approach is taken. First,...

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M.S. Thesis Defense- March 25, 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 (3:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Inverted Binary Edwards Coordinates (Maire Model of an Elliptic Curve) Speaker: Steven Maire (Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: Edwards curves are a fairly new way of expressing a family of elliptic curves that contain extremely desirable cryptographic properties over other forms that have...

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