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The IAQF's Thalesians Seminar Series is a joint effort on the part of the IAQF (www.iaqf.org) and the Thalesians (www.thalesians.com).  The goal of the series is to provide a forum for the exchange of new ideas and results related to the field of quantitative finance.  This goal is accomplished by hosting seminars where leading practitioners and academics present new work, and following the seminars with a reception to facilitate further interaction and discussion.

2024 Seminars:

November 4, 2025: Virtual Barrels: Quantitative Trading in the Oil Market.

A talk by Ilia Bouchouev

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October 7, 2024: Quants, Quantum Mechanics and Quantos.

A talk by Luca Capriotti

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September 10, 2024: Capturing Path Dependence in Finance with Occupation Times.

A talk by Valentin Tissot-Daguette

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May 7, 2024: Why Topological Data Analysis Detects Financial Bubbles.

A talk by Marian Gidea

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April 9, 2024: Expected Returns and Large Language Models.

A talk by Dacheng Xiu

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March 5, 2024: Risk Quadrangle Theory and Applications: Expectile, CVaR, and VaR.

A talk by Stan Uryasev

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February 6, 2024: Skin in the Game: Risk Analysis of Central Counterparties.

A talk by Dr. Samim Ghamami

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January 9, 2024: Online Ensemble of Models for Optimal Predictive Performance with Applications to Sector Rotation Strategy.

A talk by Dr. Pawel Polak

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2023 Seminars:

December 5, 2023: Leveraging Deep Learning for Multimodal Data Analysis in Credit Risk Assessment

A talk by Dr. Cristián Bravo

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November 14, 2023: The Economics of Automated Market Making and Decentralized Exchanges

A talk by Ciamac Moallemi

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October 3, 2023: Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules

A talk by Dr. Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira

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September 12, 2023: The Bias of Simple Bid-Ask Spread Estimators

A talk by Dr. Pedro Tremacoldi-Rossi

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June 13, 2023: Social Ties, Co-movements, and Predictable Returns

A talk by Lin Peng

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May 9, 2023: Common Pricing of Decentralized Risk: A New Linear Option Pricing Model

A talk by Liuren Wu

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April 18, 2023: Rethinking the Value and Emission Implications of Green Bonds

A talk by Shivaram Rajgopal

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March 22, 2023: Combining Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Asset Allocation

A talk by Igor Halperin

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February 14, 2023: Where Market Making Meets Market Microstructure

A talk by Sasha Stoikov

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January 24, 2023: Equity Alpha Signals From High Frequency Option Data

A talk by Peng Cheng

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2022 Seminars:


December 13, 2022: Financial Inclusion and Alternate Credit Scoring: Role of Big Data and Machine Learning in Fintech

A talk by Sudip Gupta 


November 17, 2022: Deep Order Flow Imbalance: Extracting Alpha at Multiple Horizons from the Limit Order Book

A talk by Nicholas Westray


October 24, 2022: Optimal Turnover, Liquidity, and Autocorrelation

A talk by Gordon Ritter

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June 28, 2022: Differentially Private Call Auctions and Market Impact

A talk by Michael Kearns

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May 23, 2022: Drawdown Beta and Portfolio Optimization

A talk by Stan Uryasev

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April 12, 2022: Climate Change: Opportunity and Risk


A talk by Jan W. Dash

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March 8, 2022: Multi-Asset Option Market Simulation


A talk by Magnus Wiese

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February 8, 2022: Quantifying the Impact of Impact Investing

A talk by Ruixun Zhang

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January 10, 2022: Deep Learning for Equity Time Series Prediction

A talk by Miquel Noguer i Alonso PhD

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2021 Seminars:


November 17, 2021: The Tax-Smart Approach for Measuring and Maximizing After-Tax Performance 

A talk by Andrew Kalotay

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October 18, 2021: The Adoption of Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges

A talk by Agostino Capponi

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September 7, 2021: Cleaning Corporate Governance

A talk by Eric Talley

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June 7, 2021: A Class of Mesh-free Algorithms for Finance, Machine Learning, and Fluid Dynamics

A talk by Philippe G. LeFloch and Jean-Marc Mercier

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May 10, 2021: Coins for Bombs: Detecting Terrorist Attack Funding with Cryptocurrencies

A talk by Daniel Rabetti

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April 19, 2021: Modular Machine Learning: The Best of Both Worlds?

A talk by Joseph Simonian

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March 8, 2021: A Joint Model of Failures and Credit Ratings

A talk by Rainer Hirk

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February 8, 2021: A Bayesian Network Approach

A talk by Ioannis Anagnostou

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January 11, 2021: Machine Learning Hedge Strategy with Deep Gaussian Process Regression

A talk  by Yoshihiro Tawada

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2020 Seminars:


December 14, 2020: A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy

A talk by Elliott Ash

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November 30, 2020: Human vs. Machine: Underwriting Decisions in Finance

A talk by Mark Jansen PhD

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October 29, 2020: Pandemic Exposure, Credit Market Reactions, and Corporate Default Risk

A talk by Dr. Michael Imerman

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September 29, 2020: Seeking the Self Amidst Covid’s Cytokine Cyclones

A talk by Bud Mishra

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June 16, 2020: Greedy Online Classification of Persistent Market States
A talk by Petter Kolm
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May 5, 2020: Deep Hedging
A talk by Josef Teichmann
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April 6, 2020: Weaning Ourselves Off LIBOR
A talk by Jonathan Schachter
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March 2, 2020: Deeply Learning Derivatives
A talk by Ryan Ferguson

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February 3, 2020: Portfolio Selection Using The Distribution Builder
A talk by Stephan Sturm
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January 7, 2020: PCA for Implied Volatility Surfaces
A Talk by Andrew Papanicolaou 

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2019 Seminars:

December 10, 2019: Machine Learning for Stock Selection
A Talk by Keywan Rasekhschaffe 

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November 5, 2019: Big Data & AI Strategies: Machine Learning & Alternative Data Approach to Investing
A Talk by Rajesh T. Krishnamachari 
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October 16, 2019: Systematic Strategies and Machine Learning
A Talk by Kevin Noel
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September 10, 2019: Time Series Forecasting with a Learning Algorithm
A Talk by Dr. Ricardo A. Collado
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June 11, 2019: Blockchain Analytics for Intraday Financial Risk Modeling
A Talk by Matthew Dixon
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May 7, 2019: Options Portfolio Selection
A Talk by Paolo Guasoni
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April 8, 2019: Financial Applications of Machine Learning
A Talk by Terry Benzschawel
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March 12, 2019: Understanding Returns to Short Selling Using Option-Implied Stock Borrowing Fees 
A Talk by Dmitriy Muraveyev


February 12, 2019: Semiparametric Estimation of a Credit Rating Model
A Talk by Yixiao Jiang
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January 15, 2019: Agency MBS Prepayment Modeling Using Neural Networks
A Talk by Joy Zhang

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