Fall 2000
This class is the apprenticeship part of the Master of Science program in Financial Mathematics at the Courant Institute. The presentation part is a rapid course in presentation skills, verbal, written, and electronic, for someone entering the quantitative side of the finance industry. It is lead by Cheryl Fleisher. For the project students work individually or in small groups to do a project under the guidence of an industry mentor.
September 14: Prepare a 3 minute oral presentation.
For more information on the presentation part, get the syllabis, in Word (.doc) format, or in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format, or in Postscript (.ps) format.September 14: preliminary project proposal due. Click for details.
September 26: revised preliminary project proposal due. Click for details.
October 24: progress report due. Click for details.
Class bulletin board for notes on homework and other announcements, as well as questions. Everyone in the class should check it often, and all are invited to conribute to it. You may post questions, or post a message looking for a homework partner, or a general comment on the class.