This event is in the past.It took place on May 12, 2026 at William R. Hewlett Teaching Center.

From Random Walks to Phase Transitions: Information and Trading 1
Educational Talk
From Random Walks to Phase Transitions: Information and Trading 2

From Random Walks to Phase Transitions: Information and Trading

May 12 at 3:30pm

At William R. Hewlett Teaching Center

Stanford

🧠Fascinating for physics-curious minds
📊Accessible even without finance background
Bring your market questions for Q&A

A theoretical physicist demystifies Wall Street through the elegant lens of random walks, bifurcation transitions, and noisy signal transmission. Expect mind-bending analogies between quantum systems and trading algorithms.

academic lecture
quantitative finance
Stanford speaker
free event