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            Thematic Program 
              on Quantitative Finance: Foundations and Applications January - 
              June, 2010
            
               
                 
                  March 26-27, 2010  
                    Industrial-Academic Forum on Operational Risk 
                  Organizer: S. Carrillo Menendez (U.A.M.)
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            Overview
            The use of an extreme quantile specified by Basel II makes minimum 
              capital requirements one of the few areas with a significant and 
              explicit reliance on statistics. The Industrial-Academic Forum 
              on Operational Risk aims to put together researchers and 
              specialists from industry to discuss hot topics in operational risk 
              measurement. 
            
             
              Emre Balta, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency 
                (OCC) 
                Eric Cope, IBM Research, Zurich 
                Mathias Degen, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 
                Kabir Dutta, Charles River Associates 
                Joerg Fritscher, Deutsche Bank 
                Elise Gourier, Swiss Banking Institute, University of Zurich 
                Giulio Mignola, Intesa Sanpaolo  
                Martin Neil, Queen Mary University, London 
                Tony Peccia, Citi group, CRO Citibank Canada 
                Beatriz Santa Cruz Blanco, BBVA; Metodologías de 
                riesgo corporativo 
                Anupam Sahay, KeyCorp, Director Risk Models & Operational 
                Risk, Risk Management 
                Alberto Suarez, RiskLab Madrid and Escuela Politécnica 
                Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
                John Walter, Bank of America, SVP & Manager of the Risk 
                Capital & Portfolio Analysis 
             
              
            Tentative Schedule
            
               
                | Friday March 26, 2010 | 
               
               
                | 8:50 - 9:00 | 
                Welcome and Introduction 
                  Fields Director Ed Bierstone | 
               
               
                | 9:00 - 9:50 | 
                Matthias Degen (Cornell University) 
                  Diversification benefits: a second-order approximation | 
               
               
                | 10:00 - 10:50 | 
                Emre Balta (Office of the Comptroller 
                  of the Currency, OCC) 
                  The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable: Challenges in 
                  Validating AMA Models | 
               
               
                | 11:00 - 11:30 | 
                Coffee Break | 
               
               
                | 11:30 -12:20 | 
                Giulio Mignola (Intesa Sanpaolo) 
                  Challenges in measuring operational risks from loss data | 
               
               
                | 12:20 - 2:00 | 
                Lunch Break | 
               
               
                | 2:00 - 2:50 | 
                Elise Gourier(Swiss Banking 
                  Institute, University of Zurich) 
                  Operational risk quantification using extreme value theory 
                  and copulas: from theory to practice  | 
               
               
                | 3:00 - 3:50 | 
                Kabir Dutta (Charles River Associates) 
                  On Using Scenario Analysis in The Measurement of Operational 
                  Risk: A Systematic Approach for Data Integration  | 
               
               
                | 4:00 - 4:50 | 
                Joerg Fritscher (Deutsche Bank) 
                  Stabilizing the calculation of expected shortfall contributions 
                  using conditional Monte Carlo methods  | 
               
               
                | 5:00 - 5:50 | 
                John Walter (Bank of America) | 
               
               
                | 6:00 - 7:00 | 
                Round Table: Emre Balta, Kabir 
                  Dutta, Giulio Mignola, Matthias Degen 
                  Moderator: S. Carrillo | 
               
               
                | Saturday March 27, 2010 | 
               
               
                | 9:00 - 9:50 | 
                Tony Peccia (Citi group) 
                  Rethinking Basel II for Operational Risk  | 
               
               
                | 10:00 - 10:50 | 
                Eric Cope (IBM Research, Zurich) 
                  Penalized Likelihood Estimators for Truncated Data | 
               
               
                | 11:00 - 11:30 | 
                Coffee Break | 
               
               
                | 11:30 - 12:20 | 
                Anupam Sahay (Key corp) 
                  Analytic Approximations for Operational Risk Capital  | 
               
               
                | 12:20 - 2:00 | 
                Lunch Break | 
               
               
                | 2:00 - 2:50 | 
                Beatriz Santa Cruz Blanco (BBVA) 
                  Issues in Modelling Tails in Operational Risk  | 
               
               
                | 3:00 - 3:50 | 
                Alberto Suarez (Universidad Autónoma 
                  de Madrid) 
                  Robust quantification of the exposure to operational risk: 
                  Bringing economic sense to economic capital  | 
               
               
                | 4:00 - 4:50 | 
                Martin Neil (Queen Mary University, 
                  London) 
                  Using Hybrid Dynamic Bayesian Networks to model Operational 
                  Risk in Finance  | 
               
             
            Confirmed Participants as of April 1, 2010
            
               
                | Full Name | 
                University/Affiliation | 
               
               
                | Austin, Mark | 
                RBC | 
               
               
                | Balta, Emre | 
                Office of the Comptroller of the Currency | 
               
               
                | Beekmann, Frank | 
                Deutsche Postbank | 
               
               
                | Carrillo Menéndez, Santiago | 
                Dept of Math, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 
               
               
                | Chang, Fang | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Cope, Eric | 
                IBM Zurich Research Lab | 
               
               
                | Degen, Matthias | 
                Cornell University | 
               
               
                | Delasey, Matthew | 
                Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 
               
               
                | Dutta, Kabir | 
                Charles River Associates | 
               
               
                | Fan, Yuntian | 
                TD Bank | 
               
               
                | Fritscher, Joerg | 
                Deutsche Bank | 
               
               
                | Girones Sola, Enric | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Gourier, Elise | 
                University of Zurich | 
               
               
                | Grasselli, Matheus | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Guo, Philip | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Hristoskov, James | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Huang, Lee | 
                Bank of Montreal | 
               
               
                | Hurd, Tom | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Jesuthasan, Roshan | 
                Ryerson University | 
               
               
                | Kapchinsky, Michael | 
                Toronto Dominion Bank | 
               
               
                | Kay, Jeffery | 
                RBC | 
               
               
                | Kulik, Rafal | 
                University of Ottawa | 
               
               
                | Li, Sebastian | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | MacLean, Garrett | 
                CIBC | 
               
               
                | Manti, Michael | 
                State Street Corp | 
               
               
                | Mignola, Giulio | 
                Intesa-Sanpaolo | 
               
               
                | Neil, Martin | 
                Queen Mary, University of London | 
               
               
                | Niu, Shilei | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Norouzian, Naser | 
                Bank of Montreal | 
               
               
                | Olivares, Pablo | 
                Ryerson University | 
               
               
                | Padayachee, Krishna | 
                Aviva Canada | 
               
               
                | Peccia, Tony | 
                Citigroup | 
               
               
                | Peng, Xianhua | 
                Columbia University | 
               
               
                | Qiao, Yun (Carrie) | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Quintanilla, Maria | 
                Ryerson University | 
               
               
                | Richardson, Andrew | 
                BMO | 
               
               
                | Sahay, Anupam | 
                KeyCorp | 
               
               
                | Salisbury, Thomas | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Santa-Cruz Blanco, Beatriz | 
                BBVA - Tecnología y Metodologías | 
               
               
                | Santander, Rafa | 
                Wells Fargo & Co. | 
               
               
                | Sokolovic, Zeljko | 
                TDBFG | 
               
               
                | Soulier, Philippe | 
                University Paris X | 
               
               
                | Suárez, Alberto | 
                RiskLab Madrid and Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad 
                  Autónoma de Madrid | 
               
               
                | Tsui, Lung Kwan | 
                University of Pittsburgh | 
               
               
                | Vyushin, Dmitry | 
                Scotiabank | 
               
               
                | Walter, John | 
                Bank of America | 
               
               
                | Xia, Feng | 
                TD Bank Financial Group | 
               
               
                | Zhang, Jason | 
                BMO | 
               
             
             
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