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Oldrich VasicekOldrich Vasicek (1942-) a Czech mathematician, received his master's degree in math from the Czech Technical Institute, 1964, and a doctorate from Charles University four years later, at the time the tanks of the Soviet Union arrived in Prague to enforce the Brezhnev doctrine. Vasicek left for America, settled in San Francisco, and found employment in the management science department of Wells Fargo Bank in January 1969. In 1970, that bank sponsored a conference that included Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, who had just begun thinking seriously about the problem of valuing stock options. Of course, their paper on that subject, timed so as to coincide with a related paper by Robert Merton, would revolutionize financial economics three years later. Even their preliminary thoughts at the 1970 conference excited Vasicek, who soon made related issues his own life's work. Vasicek's own breakthrough paper, describing the dynamics of the yield curve, appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics in 1977. In recognition of that paper, and subsequent work, the International Association of Financial Engineers named Vasicek its IAFE/Sungard Financial Engineer of the Year, in 2004. Needs more.
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