This interdisciplinary seminar features seminar participants and guest speakers from academic institutions and financial services firms, presenting work on the analysis and management of risk in financial markets. Economics, statistics, finance, operations research, and other disciplines will be represented.

We will study applications of high-dimensional data analysis to finance, economics, machine learning, genomics, neuroscience and engineering. The seminar will be held across four campuses, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, Florida State University, and University of Connecticut, with lectures by students, faculty, and guest speakers. Students will participate in collaborative projects emphasizing studies with empirical and simulated data, and to write up and present their own research.

Credit Restrictions

Students will receive no credit for Economics 217 after completing Statistics 278B.

Repeat Rules