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January 19th,
2006
[LSU
NEWS]
Author, professor, entrepreneur and trader Nassim
Nicholas Taleb will be the featured speaker at
an event on Friday, January 27, 2006, at 3 p.m.,
in the Atchafalaya Room of the LSU Student Union.
The free event is hosted by LSU’s E. J.
Ourso College of Business Department of Finance
and Student Finance Association, and is sponsored
by Commonwealth Advisors.
Taleb is a professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty
at the Isenberg School of Management at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also the founder
of Empirica LLC, a research laboratory and financial
products house in New York. In addition, Taleb
is also an essayist, belletrist, literary-philosophical-mathematical
flâneur, and “mathematical trader,”
focusing on the attributes of unexpected events,
with a focus on extreme deviations, the “Black
Swans,” or outliers, their unpredictability,
and a general inability to forecast.
He has authored numerous articles, as well as
the books Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role
of Chance in the Markets and Life and Dynamic
Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options.
All LSU students are invited to attend, and a
reception will follow from 4 – 5 p.m. Attire
for the event is business casual.
For more information, contact Walter Morales,
instructor of finance, at 225-578-6285, or visit
www.bus.lsu.edu.
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