Financial Mathematics
Faculty. FSU faculty members from six departments in three colleges developed and guide the interdisciplinary Financial Mathematics master’s degree option in the Department of Mathematics. The Graduate Advisors for Financial Mathematics from the departments below are, respectively, Professors Baker/Whalley, Beaumont/Zuelhke, Christiansen, Ökten, Maroney, Carson, Huffer. Beginning January 2008, Professor Ökten directs this program.
- Computer Science: Professors Theodore P. Baker, David B. Whalley
- Economics: Professors Paul M. Beaumont, Milton H. Marquis, Don Schlagenhauf, Thomas W Zuehlke
- Finance: Professors Gary A. Benesh, Pamela K. Coats, William Christiansen James Doran, David B. Humphrey, Bong-Soo Lee,
- Mathematics: Professors Bettye Anne Case, Yevgeny Goncharov, Alec N. Kercheval, Kyounghee Kim, David A. Kopriva, Jerry F. Magnan, I. Michael Navon, Warren D. Nichols, Craig A. Nolder, Giray Ökten, Stephen P. Paris
- MBA: Professor Patrick F. Maroney, Graduate Associate Dean, College of Business
- Risk Management and Insurance: Professors James M. Carson, Dean H. Gatzlaff
- Statistics: Professors Eric Chicken, Fred W. Huffer, Dan McGee, Xu-Feng Niu, Kai-Sheng Song
Graduate Students. There are approximately 50 graduate students in the Financial Math program. A full list of all the Department's graduate students is at http://www.math.fsu.edu/People/grads.php.
Steering Committee. Professors Baker and Whalley, Beaumont and Zuehlke, Carson, Case, Christiansen, Huffer, Kercheval, Kopriva, Maroney, Nichols, Nolder, Ökten (Chair) form a committee that makes program recommendations.
Financial Sector Advisors include Larry Abele (Auriel Capital), Greg Anderson (Merrill Lynch), David Barge (Florida Power and Light), Nolia Brandt (President, Brandt Information Services, Inc.), Jim Moran (Institute for Global Entrepreneurship, FSU), E. Robert Fernholz (Chief Investment Officer, INTECH), Raffael Clerici (H.B.Fuller), Lisa Goldberg (MSCI Barra), Benoit Montin (Barclays Capital), Steven Perfect (Florida Power and Light), Edward Qian (PanAgora Asset Management), Ray Song (Branch Banking and Trust), David Villa (CIO, State of Wisconsin Investment Board), Dan Waggoner (Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta), Jay Webb (UBS), and Anjun Zhou (State Street Global Advisors).
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