Doctoral Defence - Alexander Back

Doctoral Researcher: Alexander Back
Major: Finance
Thesis title: Essays on volatility modeling
Opponent and university: Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University
Chair: Niklas Ahlgren

The link to the thesis will be published here later.

The doctoral defence will be held as hybrid. Participants can attend on site or via video conference. The link to the video conference on Teams will be published here later.

The video conference opens 15 minutes before the start of the defence. 

Online participation follows the same guidelines as a traditional physical doctoral defence.

The following guidelines apply to the audience that participate via video conference:

- access to the video conference opens fifteen minutes before the defence starts;
- it is preferred that the audience joins the meeting fifteen minutes before the start of the defence;
- during the defence, the audience’s microphones are muted, cameras are turned off, recording is not allowed, and the chat function is not to be used until permitted by the Chair;
- members of the audience who wish to make comments concerning the thesis can to ask the Chair for the floor in the chat function that opens after the opponent finishes.