{"id":218,"date":"2010-01-08T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T10:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/388cafaec1284019"},"modified":"2010-01-08T02:05:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T10:05:57","slug":"wilmott-taleb-seminar-booking-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/wilmott-taleb-seminar-booking-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilmott-Taleb Seminar Booking Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><strong><font color=\"#660000\" size=\"2\">Wilmott-Taleb<br \/>\n            Seminar<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            Robust Risk Management With Wilmott And Taleb<br \/>\n            AN EXCLUSIVE TWO-DAY WORKSHOP <br \/>\n            PAUL WILMOTT &amp; NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB<br \/>\n            <\/font><\/font><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">20th\/21st January 2010<\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n              LONDON<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>              In this course they will point out exactly where people are still making fundamental errors.<\/p>\n<p>              <strong><font color=\"#660000\">Subjects covered:<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>              <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">We live in a complex system. What does it mean?<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"> Interdependence and risk sharing <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"> Robustness, redundance and degrees of complexity <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"> Those who can blow up will blow up <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"> Why complex systems cannot handle leverage<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"> The fate of complex derivatives <br \/>\n                <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Which eggs we&#8217;ll have to break to make the omelette: a glimpse at the only possible future <br \/>\n                <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">How to simulate fat tails <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"> The concept of delta-alpha<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">The commonest quant mistakes<br \/>\n                <br \/>\n                <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Why calibration does not work <br \/>\n                <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">The dangers of correlation <br \/>\n                <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Importance of nonlinearity <br \/>\n                <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Why simple models are often the best and why too much math can be dangerous <br \/>\n                <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">A summary of what to do\n<p>                Places for this course will go very quickly<\/font><\/font>\n              <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>             <font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><strong><font color=\"#660000\">Course<br \/>\n                  benefits:<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n                  <\/font> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Two days with the two most influential derivatives practitioners<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Learn about blow ups and how to avoid them<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">A focus on the wrinkles of practice by those who have most influenced<br \/>\n                  applied<\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">derivatives thinking<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Restricted class size to maximize interaction and allow individual attention<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Learn from the author of Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Meet Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Dynamic Hedging <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>               <font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><strong><font color=\"#660000\">Who<br \/>\n                  should attend this course:<br \/>\n                  <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Derivatives professionals who want an extra edge<br \/>\n                  <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, 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