Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Program:

Time Monday, 12.07. Tuesday, 13.07. Wednesday, 14.07. Thursday, 15.07.
08h30-09h00 Welcome
09h00-10h00 Boom and Gloom and Spikes in Commodity Markets
Geman, University of London
Networks of Energy Supply
Smeers, Université Catholique de Louvain
Survey on Modelling Electricity Markets
Schindlmayr, RWE
Dual methods for the valuation of multiple exercise options
Hambly, University of Oxford
10h00-10h30 Coffee break
10h30-11h30 Modeling Energy Derivatives
Eydeland, Morgan Stanley
Dynamic Pricing
Zhang, McGill University, Montreal
Optimization Under Risk in Electricity Production and Trading
Schultz, University of Duisburg
Management of Gas Storage Facilities (Swing Options)
Ware, University of Calgary
11h30-12h30 Semi-Lagrangian Methods for Gas Storage
Forsyth, University of Waterloo
Revenue Management
Pölt, Deutsche Lufthansa
Airline Revenue Management and Pricing in Competitive Markets
Isler, Swiss International Air Lines
Games with Exhaustible Resources
Howison, University of Oxford
12h30-14h00 Lunch
14h00-15h00 Pricing of Futures on Crude Oil and other Commodities: Some Research Issues
Cortazar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Emissions Option Pricing
Carmona, Princeton University
Excursion The Electricity Bid Stack: Linking the dynamics of fuel, power and carbon prices.
Coulon, Princeton University
15h00-16h00 Modelling and Estimating the Forward price curve in the Energy Market
Chiarella, University of Technology, Sydney
Poster Session Risk Modeling in Optimization Under Uncertainty
Rockafellar, University of Washington
16h00-16h30 Coffee break Coffee break
16h30-17h30 Importance of Commodities in Financial Markets
Nonnenmacher, HSH Nordbank
Systemic risk
Papanicolaou, Stanford
Carbon Price Risk Modelling
Hinz, NU Singapore
17h30-18h00 Wrap up, Discussion Wrap up, Discussion Wrap up, Farewell
Reception
(organized by BASF)
Conference Dinner
(Haus Buhl)

On Sunday evening there will be the possibility to watch the world cup final together. The Symposium will start on Monday morning at 8h30 with a Welcome session. All participants are invited to take part in the reception on Monday 18h, which will be organized by BASF at the Academy of Sciences. The Wednesday excursion will be a boat trip upstream the river Neckar. On Wednesday and Thursday evening spontaneous trips to the nearby bars of the old town of Heidelberg are an option.

Last modified by: Sebastian Sager on 2010-07-16
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