April 16, 2025

 

This Week's Ph.D. Newsletter Includes

  • Upcoming Deadlines: Summer Registration, August 2025 Grad Exams, Fall 2025 TA preferences
  • Student Spotlight: Bixing Qiao
  • Announcements: New summer course, New Fall Course, Targeted SEVIS Record Closures
  • Upcoming Events: MGSA End of the Year Party 04/25, Department Awards Ceremony 05/02

Upcoming Deadlines

  • MAY 1: Deadline to register in GRSC 802 this summer if needed (see Announcements section)
  • JULY 15: Deadline to sign up for the August 2025 Graduate Exams
  • AUGUST 1: Deadline to submit Fall 2025 TA Preferences

Student Spotlight

 

Congratulations to Bixing Qiao for being invited to speak at the 12th Western Conference on Mathematical Finance last month. 

This conference brings together researchers from Western U.S. who work in the areas of quantitative finance, stochastic control and games, stochastic and statistical methods in finance and insurance, climate finance, decentralized finance, machine learning and reinforcement learning, and other areas to present recent works and foster new interactions. The conference pays strong attention to promoting researchers and academics in the early stages of their career.

Bixing discussed his recent work on the Kyle-Back Strategic Insider Trading Problem. Such a problem considers optimal trading with asymmetric information and has been studied extensively in market microstructure theory for about 40 years. By using the nonzero sum game theory, Bixing proposed a new approach to this problem, which provides interesting new insights and improves the results significantly.  We hope you will continue to grow in this field, Bixing!

Announcements

 
 
 
 
 
 

Upcoming Events

 
 
 
 
 

DGS Office Hours

Mondays 1-3pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 539 730 6919

 

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