Imaginary Potential

Last friday, Mauro (a fellow CTP graduate student) gave the grad student pizza talk about financial derivatives. It was a little bit of a change of pace from the usual (the talks are usually about physics), but was appropriate since Mauro is graduating and currently contemplating what to do for the next phase of his life; financial derivatives are a standard alternative option (as it were) for physics Ph.D.’s.

I’m happy to report that the talk was excellent. The more I learn about financial derivatives, the more interesting I find them. It’s comforting to know that there exist interesting things outside of theoretical physics. It’s more than comforting to know that some of these things can make you money.

Without further adieu, with his permission, here is Mauro’s CTP lunch club talk.