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Post date: Mar 11, 2015 5:44:37 AM

The half-day in-house symposium on Math-Finance organized in the Department of Mathematics, IISER Pune, turned out to be a great experience. The main purpose of the symposium was to give the students an overall knowledge of research works in Math-finance, being done in the department. This was open to all from IISER and required no prior registration.

Needless to mention that this was the first symposium organized by the department where students themselves presented their ongoing research works. The talks in the symposium were on advanced research topics. So, it was unlikely that every new concept could be explained to the general audience. Despite, good number of students from inside and outside IISER attended the event. In every talk there was deliberate effort to make basic ideas tangible. In particular, the mathematical formulation of a real world problem, the relevant mathematical and statistical techniques were clarified carefully.

There were three sessions with two short breaks. The sessions were chaired by Dr. Anup Biswas, Prof. Uttara Naik-Nimbalkar and Dr. Anindya Goswami respectively. Prof. Uttara Naik-Nimbalkar and Dr. Anindya Goswami presented their recent works to the students in the first session. The talks in rest of the sessions were presented by the Master's students based on their research projects. All of these presentations by Sanket Nandan, Shirish Kulhari, Nimit Rana and Akash Krishna respectively were acclaimed among the audience.