Samuel Vazquez

Research Interests

My current "obsession" is the understanding of the process of price formation in centralized markets and its relation to information and arbitrage efficiency. In the recent past, I have also worked on topics related to the use of gauge theories in economics and finance, the AdS/CFT correspondence and inflationary cosmology.

Recent Publications

• S. E. Vazquez and S. Severini, "Perturbation theory in a pure exchange non-equilibrium economy", (2009). arxiv: 0902.3840
• S. E. Vazquez, "Scale Invariance, Bounded Rationality and non-Equilibrium Economics", (2009). arxiv: 0902.3840
• S. E. Vazquez and S. Farinelli, "Gauge Invariance, Geometry and Arbitrage", (2009). arxiv: 0908.3043
• S. E. Vazquez, "Constraining Modified Gravity with Large Non-Gaussianities", Physical Review D, 79, 043520, (2009). arxiv: 0806.0603
• M. P. Heller, R. Loganayagam, M. Spalinski, P. Surowka and S. E. Vazquez, "Consistent Holographic Description of a Boost-Invariant Plasma", Physical Review Letters, 102, 041601 (2009). arxiv: 0805.3774
• A. Adams, A. Maloney, A. Sinha, S. E. Vazquez, 1/N Effects in Non-Relativistic Gauge-Gravity Duality, JHEP 0903:097, (2009). arxiv: 0812.0166
• S. E. Vazquez, "High Energy Graviton Scattering in AdS/CFT", Journal of High Energy Physics, 06, 058, (2009). arxiv: 0709.3503
• R. C. Myers and S. E. Vazquez, "Quark Soup al-dente: Applied Superstring Theory", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25, 114008, (2008). arxiv: 0804.2423
• E. I. Buchbinder, A. Buchel, and S. E. Vazquez, "Sound Waves in (2+1) Dimensional Holographic Magnetic Fluids", Journal of High Energy Physics, 0812, 090 (2008). arxiv: 0810.4094

Seminars

• CEMAPRE - the Centre for Applied Mathematics and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal
• University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• XIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields
• University of Toronto
• Banff International Research Station. Conference: "Emerging Directions in String Theory", Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
• University of North Carolina
• University of Michigan
• PIRSA:09050092, Perturbation Theory Out of Equilibruim, 2009-05-03, The Economic Crisis and It's Implications for The Science of Economics
• PIRSA:07120044, Introduction to String Theory, 2007-12-04, The Economic Crisis and It's Implications for The Science of Economics
• PIRSA:07090054, High energy graviton scattering and Black Hole formation in AdS/CFT, 2007-09-20, Strings Group Meeting
• PIRSA:06120029, Quantum Gravity from one-loop Super-Yang-Mills Theory, 2006-12-06, Young Researchers Conference - 2006