Selected Conferences and Lectures


Random recursive construction of Salem sets
Presented at the Conference on Harmonic Analysis from the Pichorides Viewpoint
Anogia Academic Village, Crete, Greece, July 1995


On the construction of Salem sets and the existence of sets with given topological, Fourier, and Hausdorff dimension
Presented at the INTAS Workshop in Analysis
University of Erlangen, April 1996

 
Fourier-Asymptotik für eine Klasse statistisch-selbstähnlicher fraktaler Maße
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Association (DMV)
University of Jena, 1996

 
Deterministische Konstruktion von Salem-Mengen
Presented at the Research Seminar of the Group "Fractal Geometry and Stochastics"
University of Jena, November 15, 1996


Fourier asymptotics of statistically self-similar measures
Presented at the Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, March 20-21, 1998

 
Fourier asymptotics of statistically self-similar measures
Presented at the
Münchner Stochastik-Tage 1998
Bundeswehr University, Munich, March 24-27, 1998

 
Liouville numbers, Rajchman measures, and small Cantor sets
Presented at the Conference on Geometric Aspects of Fourier and Functional Analysis
University of Kiel, August 10-14, 1998

 
Liouville numbers, Rajchman measures, and small Cantor sets
Presented at the International Conference Fractal Geometry and Stochastics II
Organised by the Universities of Greifswald, Jena and Passau; August 28 - September 3, 1998

 
Invited Participation: Workshop on Differential Equations and Physics on Fractals
Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, March 21-27, 1999

                
Mathematical Modeling in Credit Risk Management
Presented at the
Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Association (DMV)
Technical University of Dresden, September 18-22, 2000

 
Estimation of Correlation in Uniform Loan Portfolios
Presented at the
Conference on Intertemporal Finance
University of Konstanz, October 6-7, 2000

 
In the winter term 2003/2004, I taught a course on "
Credit Risk Modeling"at the
Munich University of Technology

 
Collateralised Debt Obligations. Analyse und Bewertung
Presented at the Oberseminar Finanz- und Versicherungsmathematik
Munich University of Technology and Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich; May 8, 2003

 
Analyse und Bewertung von Collateralized Debt Obligations
Presented at the Dresdner Risikotutorium
Technical University of Dresden (hosted by Schloss Eckberg, Dresden), May 15-16, 2003

 
Collateralized Debt Obligations: Einsatz und Bewertung
Presented at the
Münchner Forum für Asset- und Risikomanager
Seminar für Kapitalmarktforschung und Finanzierung
Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, June 24, 2003

                
Modeling and Evaluation of Collateralized Debt Obligations
Presented at the
Autumn School on Risk Management
Munich University of Technology (hosted in "Herrsching am Ammersee"), September 29 - October 2, 2003

 
Dependence in Credit Risk. With Applications to Structured Finance in View
Presented at the Munich University of Technology, November 13, 2003

 
Semi-analytic Default Distributions for Portfolios with Low Granularity
Presented at the
Workshop on Risk Analysis in Finance and Insurance
Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Technology and Munich University of Technology; June 17-18, 2004

 
Die Kreditpolitik der Credit Suisse
Presented at the Seminar of the
Treuhand-Kammer, Zurich, September 8, 2004

 
A Survey on Default Times as a Tool for Portfolio Management
Presented at the Risk Day of the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich; October 15, 2004

 
Comonotonic Default Quote Paths for Basket Evaluation
Presented at the Seminar on Financial and Insurance Mathematics, ETH Zurich; December 9, 2004

 
Kreditrisikomanagement
Presented at the
Swiss Banking Institute (Prof. Dr. Hans Geiger)
University of Zurich, December 13, 2004
 
        
Kreditportfoliomanagement. Die nächste Generation
Presented at the Dresdner Risikotutorium
Technical University of Dresden (hosted by Schloss Eckberg, Dresden), June 2-3, 2005
 
        
Risk Measurement and Credit Portfolio Management. Status Quo and Quo Vadis
Presented at the Credit Risk 2005 (organised/hosted by Business Circle), Vienna, June 20-21, 2005
 
        
Applications of Probability Theory in Credit Portfolio Management
Talk at the “Workshop on Occasion of Professor Dietrich Kölzow's 75th Birthday”
University of Erlangen, July 16-17, 2005
 
      
Value-Adding Active Credit Portfolio Management
Presented at the MarcusEvans Conference “Effizientes Kreditportfoliomanagement”
Wiesbaden, September 28-29, 2005
 
      
Developments in Credit Portfolio Management
Presented at the meeting of the „Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft“
Working Group “Strategieentwicklung und Controlling in Banken; Munich, October 21, 2005
 
        
Credit Portfolio Management: Developments and Model Implications
Closing talk at the BMBF Workshop on Credit Risk Management
Technical University of Munich; Kardinal-Döpfner Haus Freising, February 27 to March 4, 2006
 
        
Evaluation of Portfolio-Referenced Credit Instruments
Speech at the
European Central Bank, Financial Stability, Frankfurt, May 26, 2006
 
        
Innovative Credit Portfolio Management
Presented at the Credit Risk 2006 (organised/hosted by Business Circle), Vienna, June 12-13, 2006
 
        
Credit Portfolio Management and Economic Capital: Interplay of Business and Modeling Aspects
Speech at the Moody‘s KMV Credit Practitioner Conference 2006; San Francisco, September 24-27, 2006
 
        
Applications of CDO Modeling Techniques in Credit Portfolio Management
Presented at RISK's
Quant Congress Europe 2006, London, October 12, 2006
 
        
Calculating Economic Capital for Credit Risk
Lecture given at RISK's Training
“Practical Approaches to Successfully Implement and Manage ECONOMIC CAPITAL”
New York, November 28, 2006
 
        
Structured Credit Portfolio Analysis
Presentation at the
Quantitative Finance Seminar (QFS); Humboldt-University Berlin, May 21, 2007
 
        
Structured Credit Portfolio Analysis in Credit Portfolio Management
Presentation at RISK's conference RISK 07; London, June 12-13, 2007
 
        
Actively Managing Illiquid Credit Portfolios
Presented at the
Credit Risk 2007 (organised/hosted by Business Circle), Vienna, June 25-26, 2007


Calculation of Economic Capital for Credit Portfolios
Lecture given at RISK's Training “Successfully Implementing and Managing ECONOMIC CAPITAL”
New York, September 18, 2007


Thoughts on Active Credit Portfolio Management (ACPM)
Presentation at RISK's Credit Risk Summit Europe, London, October 11, 2007


The Current Credit Crisis: Causes, Drivers and Consequences
Global Chief Learning Officer Network (GCLON) and Global Executive Development Network (GEDN)
CREDIT SUISSE, Bocken Conference Center, April 25, 2008


Opportunities and Risks in Strategic Credit Cycle Management
Presented at the meeting of the „Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft“
Working Group “Strategieentwicklung und Controlling in Banken; Frankfurt, March 13, 2008
Presented also at the
Credit Risk 2008 (organised/hosted by Business Circle), Vienna, June 2-3, 2008


What's the Trouble with CDOs from a Modeling Point of View
Presentation at RISK's Quant Congress USA, New York, July 8, 2008


Calculating Economic Capital for Credit Portfolios
Lecture at RISK's Training “Successfully Implementing and Managing ECONOMIC CAPITAL”
New York, July 18, 2008