*Mini course announcement* Prof. Luciano Campi [ LSE, London School of Economics, London ] will give a mini course on *Optimal stopping with applications to finance*, according with the following time table: 10th of April (2017) : 1730-1930 - Room M 11th of April (2017) : 1430 -1730 - Room M 12th of April (2017) : 1430-1730 - Room M all the lessons will take place at the Dept. of Computer Science - UniVr Strada le Grazie, 15 - Verona Ca' Vignal located here https://goo.gl/maps/Yx2JU *Abstract and structure of the course*Optimal stopping problems are very common in economics and finance (as well as in other fields such as sequential statistics), think for instance of choosing the best time to sell some good (e.g. a house) or to exercise a given option. The aim of this course is explaining in detail the main solution methods and how they can be applied to some concrete examples coming from economics and finance. A good knowledge of probability theory and martingales in discrete time is a very welcomed prerequisite. The list of topics will be: 1. Optimal stopping problem (OSP): motivation and examples. 2. Solution to OSP via Snell envelop and backward induction. 3. Zero-sum stopping games (aka Dynkin games). 4. Applications to finance and economics. *References*: • Neveu, J. (1975). Discrete-parameter martingales (Vol. 10). Elsevier. • Peskir, G., and Shiryaev, A. (2006). Optimal stopping and free-boundary problems (pp. 123-142). Birkhäuser Basel. • Ghemawat, P., and Nalebuff, B. (1985). Exit. The RAND Journal of Economics, 184-194. • Solan, E., and Vieille, N. (2005). Stopping games: recent results. In Advances in Dynamic Games (pp. 235-245). Birkhäuser Boston. ___________ Do not hesitate to contact me for further details: luca.dipersio@univr.it LuCa __ Luca Di Persio - PhD assistant professor of Probability and Mathematical Finance Dept. Informatics University of Verona strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy Tel : +39 045 802 7968 Dept. Math University of Trento V. Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo - Italy Tel : +39 0461 281686