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On December 18th contributor of Physics of Risk Aleksejus Kononovicius will defend his PhD thesis "Applications of Statistical Physics in Modeling of Financial Markets and Social Processes" (to obtain doctoral degree in Physics). The defense will start at 14 o'clock at the hall of VU Confucius Institute (A. Goštauto st. 12 - 432, 01108 Vilnius).

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Topic: "Nonlinearity in stochastic model of financial markets"

Speaker: Aleksejus Kononovicius

When? 18th of November, 9:15.

Where? Institute of Mathematics and Informatics VU Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (Naugarduko g. 24, Vilnius), 400 auditorium.