Workshop on Numerical Methods
for Finance and Insurance

12-13 February 2026, Milan - Italy

University of Milan - Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods




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About the workshop

Join us at the workshop Numerical Methods for Finance and Insurance, where experts will share insights on advanced quantitative methods and their applications in finance and insurance

Organising Committee

Lorenzo Mercuri (Chair)  
Alessandro Barbiero  
Paolo Bartesaghi  
Danilo Liuzzi  
Andrea Perchiazzo  
Edit Rroji  

Speakers & event schedule

Registration

Anna Maria Gambaro

Advancing Complex Step Approximation


Nathan Lassance

The distribution of out-of-sample performance of estimated portfolios


Chair: Lorenzo Mercuri

Coffee break

Ilaria Stefani

A new model for the perceived time to transition to a low carbon economy


Hansjoerg Albrecher

Optimal carbon emission patterns towards a net zero target


Andrea Mazzon

Optimal stopping and divestment timing under scenario ambiguity and learning


Chair: Edit Rroji

It's time for lunch

Gabriele Torri

Pricing of synthetic CDOs with infectious defaults and market based measures of systemic risk


David Lando

Hybrid Bank Capital: The Economics of Uneconomic AT1 Calls


Francesco Rotondi

Effective binomial discretizations of bivariate diffusion processes


Chair: Lorenzo Mercuri

Coffee break

Gero Junike

Exact simulation of stochastic volatility models based on conditional Fourier-cosine method


Riccardo Brignone

Pricing path-dependent options under stochastic volatility models with full error control


Chair: Andrea Perchiazzo

End of day 1

Alice Pignatelli di Cerchiara

American multi-asset option pricing under vine Lévy copulae and the Ballotta-Bonfiglioli model


Laura Ballotta

The Calibration Conundrum: Optimizers and (Joint) Objective Functions


Chair: Andrea Perchiazzo

Coffee break

Giovanna Apicella

The gender mortality gap: mathematical perspectives on a cross-cutting issue


Corina Constantinescu

Subsidising inclusive insurance to reduce poverty


Matteo Brachetta

Optimal Self-Protection via BSDEs for Risk Models with Jump Clusters


Chair: Edit Rroji

It's time for lunch

And that's a wrap on the workshop!

Event Venue

Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods

Via Conservatorio 7, 20122, Milan - Italy