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Laurea magistrale in Mathematics - Immatricolazione dal 2025/2026.
Academic year:
I semestre From 10/1/19 To 1/31/20
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° Python programming language D Maurizio Boscaini (Coordinator)
1° 2° SageMath F Zsuzsanna Liptak (Coordinator)
1° 2° History of Modern Physics 2 D Francesca Monti (Coordinator)
1° 2° History and Didactics of Geology D Guido Gonzato (Coordinator)
II semestre From 3/2/20 To 6/12/20
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° Advanced topics in financial engineering D Luca Di Persio (Coordinator)
1° 2° C Programming Language D Sara Migliorini (Coordinator)
1° 2° C++ Programming Language D Federico Busato (Coordinator)
1° 2° LaTeX Language D Enrico Gregorio (Coordinator)
List of courses with unassigned period
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° Axiomatic set theory for mathematical practice F Peter Michael Schuster (Coordinator)
1° 2° Corso Europrogettazione D Not yet assigned
1° 2° Corso online ARPM bootcamp F Not yet assigned
1° 2° ECMI modelling week F Not yet assigned
1° 2° ESA Summer of code in space (SOCIS) F Not yet assigned
1° 2° Google summer of code (GSOC) F Not yet assigned
1° 2° Higher Categories - Seminar course F Lidia Angeleri (Coordinator)

Teaching code

4S001114

Credits

6

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

MAT/08 - NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

Period

II semestre dal Mar 2, 2020 al Jun 12, 2020.

Learning outcomes

The course will discuss various numerical methods for the pricing of the main financial instruments. An emphasis will be made on finance in the Energy industry. At the end of the course the student is expected to have the ability to construct and develop mathematical models for the stochastic processes of finance, to be able to analyze their limits and applicability and to solve them numerically.

Program

Programme:

Binary Trees
Continuous time models (Geometric Brownian Motion, Black-Scholes, Feynman-Kac)
Estimating the volatility from historical data
Accelerating the back-folding of a tree
Path Dependent Options
Numerical Methods for Advection-Diffusion equations (Euler, Crank-Nicholson, application to the Black-Scholes PDE)
American and Asian Options
Jump Diffusions and the Merton Model
The Fast Gauss Transform and its application to the pricing of Options
Calibration of a model from historical data
Monte Carlo Methods
Numerical methods for SDE
Applications to Finance in Energy markets

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
L. Bos Course Notes 2017
P. Wilmott, S. Howison, J. Dewynne. The Mathematics of Financial Derivatives, A student introduction (Edizione 1) Cambridge University Press 1995

Examination Methods

To pass the exam the student must demonstrate the ability to mathematically model problems in finance and to solve them numerically using the methods discussed during the course. To that end the student will be assigned a project that will involve the implementation and study of some numerical methods for a problem in mathematical finance.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE