Finance Seminars

Dr. Umit Gurun, professor of accounting, finance and managerial economics speaking at a lectern Finance Seminars.

Hear professors from around the world speak on topics related to finance and managerial economics.

The Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas is privileged to host academic experts presenting their latest research on the most relevant topics facing our discipline today.

For information about attending, please contact Denise Dobbs.

Please see below for our seminar schedule in the coming semester. We will also schedule seminars for the job market candidates at the beginning of next semester.

Last updated: January 9, 2024

2024 – 2025 Seminar Schedule

UTD Finance Seminar Schedule Spring 2024
Fridays 10:30 – 12:00 JSOM II Room 11.206 (Unless noted)
Date Name of the Speaker School
Wednesday, 01/17/2024 Hao Pang * Duke University (Room 14.501 1:00 – 2:30)  
Friday, 01/19/2024 Xiyue Li * Univ of British Columbia  
Wednesday, 01/24/2024 Patrick Blonien * Rice University (Room 1.516 11:30)  
Friday, 01/26/2024 Andrew Kane * Duke University  
Wednesday, 01/31/2024 Yury Olshanskiy * MIT (Room 1.516 11:30)  
Friday, 02/02/2024 Robin Young-hye Lee * USC  
Friday, 02/06/2024 Runjing Lu * University of Alberta (Room 14.501 10:30)  
Friday, 02/09/2024 Kristoffer Halskov * Coppenhagen Business School  
Friday, 02/16/2024 Ali Sanati * American University  
Friday, 02/23/2024      
Friday, 03/01/2024   Room 11.202  
Friday, 03/08/2024 Xiaoji Lin University of Minnesota  
Friday, 03/15/2024      
Friday, 03/22/2024 Alp Simsek Yale University (Room 11.202)  
Friday, 03/29/2024 Stavros Panageas UCLA  
Friday, 04/05/2024 Vish Viswanathan Duke University  
Friday, 04/12/2024 Alexander Ljungvist Stockholm School of Economics  
Friday, 04/19/2024 Pulak Ghosh Indian Institute of Management  
Friday, 04/26/2024 Veronika Krepely Pool Vanderbilt University  
Friday, 05/03/2024 Simon Gervais Duke University  
Friday, 05/10/2024 Jonathan Berk Stanford University (Room 1.508?)  
Friday, 05/17/2024      
*Candidate speakers

Past Seminars

Date Name of the Speaker School
Friday, 08/18/2023      
Friday, 08/25/2023      
Friday, 09/01/2023 Matthew Ringgenberg Univ of Utah  
Thursday, 09/08/2023 Guofu Zhou Washington Univ at St. Louis  
Friday, 09/15/2023      
Friday, 09/22/2023      
Friday, 09/29/2023 Fall Finance Conference    
Friday, 10/06/2023      
Friday, 10/13/2023      
Friday, 10/20/2023 John Griffin Univ of Texas at Austin  
Friday, 10/27/2023 Yufeng Wu University of Connecticut  
Friday, 11/03/2023 Kathleen Hanley Lehigh University  
Friday, 11/10/2023 Brett Green Washington Univ at St. Louis  
Friday, 11/17/2023 Giorgia Piancentino Univ of Southern California  
Friday, 11/24/2023 Fall Break    
Friday, 12/01/2023 David McLean Georgetown University  
Friday, 12/08/2023 Yao Zeng Univ of Pennsylvania  
Friday, 12/15/2023 Carlos Avenancio-Leon Univ of California San Diego  
Date Name of the Speaker School
Friday, 01/20/2023 Xu Lu Stanford  
Thursday, 01/26/2023 Emil Lakkis University of Michigan  
Friday, 01/27/2023 Charlotte Haendler Boston College  
Thursday, 02/02/2023 Yuchen Chen University of Minnesota  
Friday, 02/03/2023 Alex Priest University of Texas at Austin  
Friday, 02/17/2023 Yiming Ma Columbia University  
Friday, 02/24/2023 Mindy Xiaolan UT Austin  
Friday, 03/03/2023 Benjamin Keys University of Pennsylvania  
Friday, 03/10/2023 Jason Donaldson Washington University  
Friday, 03/17/2023 Spring break    
Friday, 03/24/2023 Urban Jermann University of Pennsylvania  
Friday, 03/31/2023 Michael Ewens Columbia University  
Friday, 04/07/2023 Dong Lou London School of Economics 9:00 am virtual
Friday, 04/14/2023 Nadya Malenko University of Michigan  
Friday, 04/21/2023 Hank Bessembinder ASU  
Friday, 04/28/2023 Lukas Schmid USC  
Friday, 05/05/2023 Ran Duchin Boston College  

*Candidate speakers

Date Name of the Speaker School
Friday, 9/2/2022 Constantine Yannelis Chicago Booth  
Friday, 9/9/2022 Amiyotash Purnanandam University of Michigan  
Friday, 9/16/2022 Manuel Adelino Duke University  
Friday, 9/23/2022 Jarrad Harford Washington  
Friday, 9/30/2022 Francois Gourio Chicago Federal Reserve  
Friday, 10/7/2022 UTD Conference    
Friday, 10/14/2022 Lone Star Conference    
Friday, 10/21/2022 Hong Liu Washington University Room 2.717
Friday, 10/28/2022 William Fuchs University of Texas at Austin  
Friday, 11/4/2022 Geoffrey Tate University of Maryland  
Friday, 11/11/2022 Jennie Bai Georgetown University  
Friday, 11/18/2022 Alok Kumar University of Miami  
Friday, 11/25/2022 Thanksgiving Break    
Friday, 12/2/2022 Christine Parlour Berkley  
Friday, 12/9/2022 Yao Zeng Wharton School of Business Room 14.501

*Candidate speakers

Date Name of the Speaker School
Friday, 3/6/2020 Bo Bian University of British Columbia
Friday, 3/13/2020 Zhi Da University of Notre Dame
Friday, 3/20/2020 Spring Break  
Friday, 3/27/2020 Hui Chen MIT
Friday, 4/3/2020 Stefan Zeume University of Michigan
Friday, 4/10/2020 Todd Gormley Washington Univ in St. Louis
Friday, 4/17/2020 Tim McQuade Stanford University
Friday, 4/24/2020 Boris Vallee Harvard University
Friday, 5/1/2020 Selale Tuzel University of Southern California

*Candidate speakers

Seminar time in the Spring is Friday from 10:30 am -12:00 pm

Due to COVID-19 all Spring 2020 Seminar’s were canceled.

Seminars in the Fall will be virtual and times may vary, please check here for start times and links one week before the seminar.

Fall 2019 Seminar Speakers
Date Name of the Speaker School
Friday 9/6/19 Winston Dou University of Pennsylvania
Friday 9/13/19 Kewei Hou Ohio State University
Friday 9/20/19 Jeff Coles University of Utah
Friday 9/27/19 Francesco D’Acunto Boston College
Friday 10/4/19 UTD Finance Conference
Friday 10/11/19 Brian Melzer Dartmouth College
Friday 10/18/19
Friday 10/25/19 Off Week FMA
Friday 11/1/19 Tobias Berg Frankfurt School of Business
Tuesday 11/5/19 Tarun Ramadorai Imperial School of London
Friday 11/8/19 TCU Conference
Friday 11/15/19 Travis Johnson Univ of Texas at Austin
Friday 11/22/19
Friday 11/29/19 Thanksgiving Break
Friday 12/6/19 Yuehua Tang University of Florida
Spring 2019 Seminar Speakers
Date Speaker School
Wednesday, 1/9/19 Gregory Eaton (Room 12.210) Oklahoma State University
Wednesday, 1/16/19 Alex Chinco University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, 1/18/19 Denis Sosyura Arizona State University
Wednesday, 1/23/19 Dmitriy Muravyev Boston College
Friday, 1/25/19 Michael Hasler University of Toronto
Wednesday, 1/30/19 Ruidi Huang University of Illinois
Friday, 2/1/19 Siyu Lu Carnegie Mellon
Wednesday, 2/6/19 Ramin Baghai Stockholm School of Economics
Friday, 2/8/19 Michael Wittry University of Washington
Wednesday, 2/13/19 Donghwa Shin Princeton
Friday, 2/15/19 Bo Bian London Business School
Wednesday, 2/20/19 Christoph Schiller University of Toronto
Friday, 2/22/19 David Sovich Washington University St. Louis
Wednesday, 2/27/19 Ishita Sen London Business School
Friday, 3/1/19 Xiaoyun Yu Indiana University
Friday, 3/15/19 Lauren Cohen Harvard Business School
Friday, 3/29/19 Yuliy Sannikov Stanford University
Friday, 4/5/19 Itay Goldstein Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, 4/12/19 Vikas Agarwal Georgia State University
Friday, 4/19/19 Ben Iverson Brigham Young University
Friday, 4/26/19 Camelia Kuhnen University of North Carolina
Fall 2018 Seminar Speakers
Date Name of Speaker, School
Friday, 9/14/2018 David Schoenherr, Princeton University
Friday, 9/28/2018 Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, 10/19/2018 Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University
Friday, 10/26/2018 Heber Farnsworth, University of Oklahoma
Wednesday, 10/31/2018 Gilles Chemla, Imperial College London
Friday, 11/2/2018 Vincent Glode, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, 11/9/2018 Ryan Israelsen, Michigan State University
Friday, 11/30/2018 Gordon Phillips, Dartmouth College

Finance Program Resources at the Jindal School

Academic Programs – Primary

The finance area offers on bachelor’s, three master’s and one PhD program.

Academic Programs – Additional

The finance area also offers accelerated pathways to adding more degrees as well as areas of concentration.

Faculty and Community Activity

Discover how finance faculty are researching, publishing, speaking and engaging in the business community.

Career, Certificates and CFA Exam Prep

Find out about the career resources available to you as a finance student and learn more about the CFA exam and how the Jindal School prepares you for it. There are also two academic certificates for graduate students that anyone can apply for.