Thalesian Seminar (City) — Malcolm Sherrington — Fractals, Finance and Fractured Fairy Tales
Channel: Thalesians
Date: 28/07/2018

DATE AND TIME

Wed 11th October 2017

ABSTRACT

Economic systems are complex. Modern day studies of complexity has introduced the concepts of agent-based models, chaos and catastrophe, In general, these have been largely ignored by the financial sector based, as it is, on simpler models, utilising a set of unrealistic assumptions.

In this talk Dr Malcolm Sherrington will ask why this remains the case and briefly describe various aspects of complexity theory, reviewing some of the seminal work as applied to the finance sector and the ongoing impact on recent studies.

SPEAKER

Malcolm Sherrington has been involved in provision of I.T. systems for over 30 years, working on a wide range of projects in Aerospace, Healthcare and Finance, as well as teaching at universities in London and Brighton. His work has included research and consultancy on parallel processing and the use of GPUs in high performance computing.

We are delighted to announce to you, the Thalesians, that we have negotiated a special deal with City University Club, an exclusive private members club in the heart of the City of London, conveniently located at 50 Cornhill, right next to the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange, the DLR and tube station. Come and join us for the fifth time for a lecture by Dr. Malcolm Sherrington at 18:30 preceded by a champagne reception from 18:00 and followed by drinks at the bar with Malcolm and our team!