To Whom it May Concern: Due to an overlap of the Vienna Seminar in Mathematical Finance and Probability with the IST Lecture with the speaker Cédric Villani, the Vienna Seminar MFP will take place on Wednesday instead of Thursday. Furthermore we announce two PhD theses defenses at University of Vienna. Please find details below. Best regards, Sandra ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joint Seminar: TU Vienna, University of Vienna and WU Vienna ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We., 05.11.2014, 17:00, seminar room SR09 Universität Wien, 1090, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2nd floor Matthias Erbar (University of Bonn, DE) http://wt.iam.uni-bonn.de/erbar/home/ "Ricci curvature for finite Markov chains" (Vienna Seminar in Mathematical Finance and Probability) For further details (including abstracts) see http://fam.tuwien.ac.at/vs-mfp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IST Lecture with Cédric Villani: http://ist.ac.at/en/events/community-events/2014/ist-lecture-cedric-villani… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement of Public PhD Thesis Defense at University of Vienna ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tu., 07.11.2014, 13:00, seminar room 10 Uni Wien, 1090 Wien, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2nd floor Anastasiia Zalashko (University of Vienna) "Model independent pricing of Asian options" (Public PhD Thesis Defense, Supervisor: W. Schachermayer) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tu., 07.11.2014, 13:30, seminar room 10 Uni Wien, 1090 Wien, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2nd floor Lingqi Gu (University of Vienna) "The shadow price in utility maximization problems under transaction costs" (Public PhD Thesis Defense, Supervisor: W. Schachermayer) ------------------------------------------------------------------------