November 25, 2021

On Visintin’s laziness principle and the optimal investment strategies with small transaction costs.

Speaker: Dr. Raouf Ghomrasni

Short biography of Speaker: Dr. Raouf Ghomrasni is a probabilist. He was a lecturer  at Witwatersrand University and held a research position at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in South Africa. More recently he has worked as a Statistician consultant for the World Health Organization and is currently a researcher at QUADGRID Data Lab.

Short title: On Visintin’s laziness principle

Abstract: We discuss Visintin’s laziness principle and give some applications in finance.

Coordinator: Elizabeth Dadzie


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Zoom Meeting Start Time: 2:45pm (Accra Time)

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