Peter Karl FRIZ 

 

Professional and academic position:

Jun 09 - present    Professor in Mathematics (W3) at TU Berlin; also affiliated to WIAS Berlin

Oct 08 - May 09    Research Group Leader, Radon Institute (Linz, Austria)

Oct 07 - May 09    Reader in Mathematics (tenured) at Cambridge University

Sep 07 - Dec 07    Visiting member, Mittag-Leffler Institute (Sweden)

Oct 04 - Sep 07     Lecturer (then: tenured Lecturer) in Mathematics at Cambridge University

Jan 04 - Sep 04     Associate at Merrill Lynch, New York,  in Jim Gatheral’s quant group (Equity)

Summer 03            Summer Associate at Merrill Lynch (New York), research project on volatility derivatives

Summer 01            BNP-Paribas, New York, research project on Bermudan Swaptions (Fixed−Income)

Summer 00            Research project at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), results published

Summer 98            Research project at Oxford University (Dept. of Mathematics), results published

Summer 91-96       Several IT internships including IBM (Vienna) and Boehler (Milan).  

 

Education:

Sep 00 - Dec 03    New York University, PhD at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences;

    Topics: Stochastic and Rough Path Analysis, Finance; Advisor: S.R.S. Varadhan

Oct 99 - Jun 00     Cambridge University, Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics, scholarship

                             and member of Trinity College, elected Fellow of Cambridge European Trust

Sep 97 - Jun 99     Ecole Centrale Paris, Physics and Engineering, double degree program with

Oct 93 - Oct 99     Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Mathematical Computer Sciences

 

Teaching experience:

04 - present              Cambridge: Probability, Stochastic Financial models, Rough Path Analysis

00 - 03                      NYU:  Calculus, PDE, Case Studies in Financial Modeling

96 - 99                      Several teaching assistant positions in Vienna & Paris

 

Languages:

German                     Mother tongue

English                      Lived and worked in UK/USA since 1999

French                       "Diplôme de Langue Française" (Alliance Française)

Italian                        4 years at school, summer lectures (95), internship in Italy

 

Publications (see http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~peter/ for details and latest updates):

~30 published/accepted articles (plus several preprints) in the broad area of PDE, Finance and Stoch. Analysis;

published in  Physica D, JFA, JDE, Quant. Finance, RISK, Math. Finance,  Annales de l'IHP, Annals of Probability,

PTRF,   Proceedings - and Transactions of AMS, Annals of Mathematics ...

 

Book: Stoch. Processes as Rough Paths (Cambridge University Press)

 

Awards, Grants and Fellowships:

EPSRC Principle Investigator (EP/E048609/1, 205K), Jun 07 - Sep 09

Leverhulme  Personal Research Fellowship, Jun 06 - 08

CERF grant for research in Finance, Nov 06 - Sep 09

Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge, Oct 04 - May 09

Kurt Friedrich prize of the Courant Institute, Apr 04

Fellow of Austrian Academy of Science, Oct 02

MacCracken Fellowship, NYU, Sep 00

Elected Fellow of the Cambridge European Trust, Apr 00

Trinity College Scholarship in Mathematics, Oct 98 

 

Selected Recent and Forthcoming Talks:

 

Sep 2005 (Princeton University): Pricing Volatility Derivatives as Inverse Problem

Sep 2006 (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris): Rough Paths and Carnot-Caratheodory Geometry

Sep 2006 (DMV 06, Bonn): Rough Paths and Carnot-Caratheodory Geometry

Sep 2006 (Columbia University): Rough Paths and Stochastic Analysis

Oct 2006 (Quant Congress Europe, London): Implied Volatility at Extreme Strikes

Jan 2007 (Oxford University): Differential Equations driven by Gaussian Signals

Mar 2007 (Imperial College): The Black-Scholes Volatility and Related Topics

Apr 2007 (BMC 07, Swansea): Malliavin Calculus and Rough Paths

May 2007 (Newton Institute, Cambridge): Rough Paths and Oscillations

Jul 2007 (ICMS, Edinburgh): On the Black-Scholes implied volatility at extreme strikes

Sep 2007 (Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden): Malliavin Calculus and Rough Paths

Feb 2008 (Cambridge): Partial Differential Equations Driven by Rough Paths

Mar 2008 (Courant Institute): Hoermander Theory and Rough Paths

Apr 2008 (University of Vienna): Volatility Asymptotics

May 2008 (TU Berlin): Properties of differential Equations driven by Gaussian processes

Jul 2008 (5ECM): Partial differential equations driven by rough paths

Oct 2008 (Princeton conference on implied volatility): Implied volatility at large strikes

Feb 2009 (Trinity College Math. Society): From Lie groups to option pricing

Mar 2009 (Imperial College): A rough pathwise approach to fully non-linear SPDEs

Sep 2009 (OEMG-DMV Congress 2009): From numerical aspects of stochastic financial models to the foundations of stochastic differential equations (and back)

Aug 2010 (ICM 2010, satellite meeting on Probability and Stochastic Processes): Two invited talks, titles TBA

 

Conference Organization:

Co-organizer of  workshop on Stochastic Analysis and Computational Finance (Imperial College, Nov 2005)

Organizer of symposium on Rough Path Theory,  5th  European Congress of Mathematics (Amsterdam, 2008)

Organizer of special session on Rough Path Theory,  SPA (Berlin, 2009)

 

Recent teaching: 

Stochastic Financial Models (Cambridge, Lent Term 05, 06, 07, 08)

Introduction to Probability (Cambridge, Michaelmas Term 04)

Rough Paths Analysis (Camridge, Michaelmas Term 05, 06)

Topics in Stochastic Analysis (Cambridge, Easter Term 07)

Minicourse on Rough Paths (Columbia, March 08 + Vienna, Feb 09)

 

Former PhD-students:

 Thomas Cass (04-07), now post-doctoral researcher at Oxford  University

 Shalom Benaim (04-07), now Associate at Royal Bank of Scotland

 Harald  Oberhauser (06-09)

 

PostDoc supervision:

 Dr. Michael Caruana (07-09)

 

Cambridge MPhil project supervisions: various Finance related projects (since 04)