Nicola Bruti Liberati Prize
The Bachelier Finance Society and the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano, in cooperation with Springer, are proud to announce the Nicola Bruti Liberati Prize which is to be awarded
annually for a doctoral thesis in all subjects of Mathematical Finance, such as, but not limited to: Derivative Pricing, Computational Finance, Econometrics and Statistical Methods applied to Finance, Risk Analysis, Portfolio Optimization, Probability Methods in Finance, and Numerical Methods in Finance.
Nicola obtained an undergraduate degree from Bocconi University (2001) in Mathematical Finance. He died in 2007 in a traffic accident in Sydney, while he was completing his PhD thesis with Prof. Eckhard Platen. At that time, he was also cooperating with the Quantitative Finance group of the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano.
In order to commemorate Nicola, the family and the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano offer an annual prize of €3.000 for the best doctoral thesis to be selected by a Committee appointed by the Bachelier Finance Society.
Theses defended in 2009, 2010 or 2011 can be nominated through the Politecnico di Milano and must be submitted no later than January 31, 2012.
The thesis must be written in good English. Other languages may be considered by the Committee in exceptions. The nominated theses will be evaluated by an international scientific committee presided over by the President of the Bachelier Finance Society, including a representative of the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano.
The award will be appointed in 2012 at the Bachelier World Congress to be held in Sydney.
In suitable cases, the Prize Committee will express a recommendation for publication of the prize-winning thesis in Springer series.
Committee
Prof. Tomas Björk - Stockholm School of Economics
Prof. Emilio Barucci - Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Eckhard Platen - University of Technology, Sydney
Prof. Dr. Martin Schweizer - ETH Zurich
Prof. Thaleia Zariphpoulou - Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
