Aziz Issaka	Research interests Probability theory and stochastic Processes Mathematical finance Asymptotic methods in financial mathematics Asymptotic methods for special functions
		Address	North Dakota State University Department of Mathematics 1210 Albrecht Boulevard Minard 406A North Dakota State University Fargo ND 58102
		Office	Minard 406A
		Phone	+1 (701) 231-8094
		Email	aziz dot issaka at ndsu dot edu
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Hello, my name is Aziz Issaka.

Curriculum Vitæ | List of Publications | Lecture Notes | My Erdős number is 4.

1. Analysis of Variance Based Instruments for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Type Models: Swap and Price Index , Annals of Finance, Vol. 13, Issue 4, 2017, pp. 401-434, (with I. SenGupta).
   
2. Feynman path integrals and asymptotic expansions for transition probability densities of some Lévy driven financial markets , Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, Vol. 54, Issue 1 - 2, 2017, pp. 159-182, (with I. SenGupta).
   
3. On Ramanujan’s inverse digamma approximation , The Ramanujan Journal, Vol. 39, Issue 2, 2016, pp. 291-302.
   
4. An asymptotic series related to Ramanujan’s expansion for the nth Harmonic number , The Ramanujan Journal, Vol. 39, Issue 2, 2016, pp. 303-313.
   

• Joint Mathematics Meetings: "Analysis of Variance Based Instruments: Swap and Price Index" January 10-13, 2018, San Diego, California.
• Midwest mini-conference on Stochastic Processes and Mathematical Finance: "Variance dependent price index", NDSU, Fargo, ND April 8, 2017.
• Applied Mathematics Seminar: An asymptotic series related to Ramanujans expansion for the nth Harmonic number, NDSU, Fargo, ND Nov 14, 2016.
• Graduate Colloquium: Ramanujans enigmatic formula for the nth harmonic number in terms of the reciprocal of the triangular numbers, NDSU, Fargo, Nov 3, 2016.
• AMS Special Session on Mathematical Finance : Feynman path integrals for transition probability densities of some financial markets, Spring Central Sectional Meeting NDSU, Fargo, ND April 16-17, 2016.
• AMS Special Session on Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education: Undergraduate students' perceptions of mathematical proofs, Spring Central Sectional Meeting North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND April 16-17, 2016.
• Applied Mathematics Seminar: The path integral approach to financial modeling and options pricing, NDSU, Fargo, ND May 2, 2016.
• Invited Talk at Colloquium: Some Results on Two Asymptotic Series of Ramanujan, Department of Mathematics, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, July 15, 2014.

• Summer Graduate School: Harmonic Analysis and Elliptic Equations on reak Euclidean Spaces and on Rough Sets , Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, June 13 - June 24, 2016, Berkeley, CA
• AMS Sectional - North Dakota State University, April 2016
• Prof. Bela Bollobas Lectures on "A Brief Introduction to Probabilistic Combinatorics and Random Graphs" , Central European University, April 2014
• Wolf Prize Laureate Lazlo Lovasz Lecture on "Which Graphs Are Extremal?" , Central European University, May 2013
• Abel Prize Laureate Endre Szemeredi Lecture on "Subset Sums" , Central European University, March 2013
• Nobel Prize Laureate Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture on "Knowledge, Belief and the Economic System", Budapest, October 2013

• American Mathematical Society
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• MathSciNet
• Google scholar
• My Erdős number is 4