Program in Probability and Its Applications
        Symposium on Numerical Stochastics in Finance -- 
          Monday April 19, 1999 
        
 
        
        
  
        Organizing Committee
        T. Lyons (Imperial College) 
          T. Salisbury (York University) 
        
A large part of modern financial theory is based on probabilistic models. 
          Increasingly, sophisticated numerical techniques are being developed 
          for the solution of concrete problems involving these models. This one-day 
          symposium will survey current work in this area, and will attempt to 
          focus attention on emerging topics of research. 
        
Speakers
        
          - Phelim P. Boyle (University of Waterloo) 
          
 - Pierre L'Ecuyer (Université de Montréal) 
          
 - Dietmar Leisen (Stanford University) 
          
 - Philip Protter (Purdue University) 
 
        
        The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion on directions for 
          research. 
        
The Symposium focuses specifically on numerical problems arising in 
          Finance.
          The general topic of numerical techniques in Probability theory is addressed 
          in a workshop that immediately follows the Symposium: 
          Workshop on Numerical Methods and Stochastics, 
          Tuesday, April 20 to Friday, April 23