Keynote Speeches and Honorable Invited Talks:

 

·         “Pricing financial derivatives with and without stochastic volatility”, Keynote Speech at the 46th Australian Applied Mathematics Conference (the ANZIAM 2010 conference), Queenstown, New Zealand, Feb., 2010 (all accommodation, registration and traveling expenses are fully covered by the conference organizing committee).

 

·         “Pricing financial derivatives with and without stochastic volatility”, Invited talk the QANZIAM 2009 conference, Boonah, Queensland, Australia, Oct., 2009 (all accommodation, registration and traveling expenses are fully covered by the conference organizing committee).

 

·          “On Various Quantitative Approaches For Pricing American Options”, Keynote Speech at the Int. Conf. of NMF 2008 (Numerical Methods for Finance), Dublin, Ireland, June, 2008 (all accommodation, registration and traveling expenses are fully covered by the conference organizing committee).

 

·         “An Exact and Explicit Solution for the Valuation of American Put Options”, invited talk at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, April, 2007.

 

·         “Pricing American Options - an Important Fundamental Research in Pricing Financial Derivatives”, Keynote Speech at the 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Finance, 2007, Cheng Du, China (all accommodation, registration and traveling expenses are fully covered by the conference organizing committee).

 

·          “An Exact and Explicit Solution for the Valuation of American Put Options”, invited seminar at the Univ. of Sydney in March, 2007

 

·          “An Exact and Explicit Solution for the Valuation of American Put Options”, invited talk at the SYDNEY FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS WORKSHOP (SFMW) Seminar Series, October 2006, 60 Martin Place, Sydney, Australia (all traveling expenses covered).

 

·          “An Exact and Explicit Solution for the Valuation of American Put Options”, invited seminar at the Centre for Actuarial Studies, Univ. of Melbourne, Nov., 2006 (all traveling expenses covered).

 

·         Invited to present a seminar at the Hong Kong City University, Oct., 2006 (all accommodation and traveling expenses covered).

 

·          “A Closed-form Exact Solution for the Value of American Put and its Optimal Exercise Boundary”, The 3rd SPIE International Symposium of Noise and Fluctuations in Econophysics and Finance, May, 2005, Austin, Texas, USA

 

·         Invited Talk at the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Finance, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.

 

·         Invited Chief Consultant at the Workshop of Industrial Mathematics and Applications, Hong Kong, 2002 (all accommodation, registration and traveling expenses are fully covered by the workshop organizing committee).

 

·         Modeling Diffraction and Refraction of Weakly Nonlinear Waves with the DRBEM Approach, BETECH2001, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2001.