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Google Tech Talks October 17, 2008 ABSTRACT The LHC is the biggest (27 kilometers around) scientific instrument ever built and it is now ramping up to start taking data. It smashes together protons at enormous energy in order to create new forms of matter. Physicists hope to find the Higgs Boson which is the missing link in our current theory. Hopefully unanticipated discoveries will be made. I will explain why physicists need this expensive tool in order to understand nature at the smallest distance scales. Speaker: Edward Farhi Edward Farhi was trained as a theoretical particle physicist but has also worked on astrophysics, general relativity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics. His present interest is the theory of quantum computation. As a graduate student, Farhi invented the jet variable “Thrust,” which is used to describe how particles in high energy accelerator collisions come out in collimated streams. He then worked with Leonard Susskind on grand unified theories with electro-weak dynamical symmetry breaking. He and Larry Abbott proposed an (almost viable) model in which quarks, leptons, and massive gauge bosons are composite. With Robert Jaffe, he worked out many of the properties of a possibly stable super dense form of matter called “Strange Matter” and with Charles Alcock and Angela Olinto he studied the properties of “Strange Stars.” His interest then shifted to general relativity and he and Alan Guth studied the classical and quantum prospects of …

Financial Theory (ECON 251) Professor Geanakoplos explains how, as a mathematical economist, he became interested in the practical world of mortgage securities, and how he became the Head of Fixed Income Securities at Kidder Peabody, and then one of six founding partners of Ellington Capital Management. During that time Kidder Peabody became the biggest issuer of collateralized mortgage obligations, and Ellington became the biggest mortgage hedge fund. He describes securitization and trenching of mortgage pools, the role of investment banks and hedge funds, and the evolution of the prime and subprime mortgage markets. He also discusses agent based models of prepayments in the mortgage market. 00:00 – Chapter 1. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Mortgage Securities Market 17:01 – Chapter 2. Collateralized Mortgage Obligations 22:44 – Chapter 3. Modeling Prepayment Tendencies at Kidder Peabody 35:40 – Chapter 4. The Rise of Ellington Capital Management and the Role of Hedge Funds 52:52 – Chapter 5. The Leverage Cycle and the Subprime Mortgage Market 01:13:51 – Chapter 6. The Credit Default Swap 01:18:36 – Chapter 7. Conclusion Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2010.

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Financial Theory (ECON 251) This lecture gives a brief history of the young field of financial theory, which began in business schools quite separate from economics, and of my growing interest in the field and in Wall Street. A cornerstone of standard financial theory is the efficient markets hypothesis, but that has been discredited by the financial crisis of 2007-09. This lecture describes the kinds of questions standard financial theory nevertheless answers well. It also introduces the leverage cycle as a critique of standard financial theory and as an explanation of the crisis. The lecture ends with a class experiment illustrating a situation in which the efficient markets hypothesis works surprisingly well. 00:00 – Chapter 1. Course Introduction 10:16 – Chapter 2. Collateral in the Standard Theory 17:54 – Chapter 3. Leverage in Housing Prices 33:47 – Chapter 4. Examples of Finance 46:13 – Chapter 5. Why Study Finance? 50:13 – Chapter 6. Logistics 58:22 – Chapter 7. A Experiment of the Financial Market Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2009.