Message-ID: <29849477.1075856615560.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:05:00 -0700 (PDT) From: gemanix@aol.com To: vince.j.kaminski@enron.com Subject: Many Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: GemanIX@aol.com X-To: Vince.J.Kaminski@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Vincent_Kaminski_Jun2001_5\Notes Folders\Personal X-Origin: Kaminski-V X-FileName: vkamins.nsf Dear Vince, 1.I apologize for not having got back to Karla earlier but Dauphine is not properly equipped yet. 2.The conference with Samuelson,Merton,Heath, Ross,McKean etc was spectacular.512 academics and practitioners came to College de France and were very grateful. 3.I was so worn out afterwards that I did not make it to Houston.I just went to visit Alex after a week conference on Quantitative Risk Management where I was speaking at Carnegie Mellon 4.Another former PhD student of mine has been testing and improving the software.He is great and modest ;giving the papers I referee and the conferences I go to,I do believe that we are still ahead(or way ahead)today.We also beautifully simplified the valuation of the hourly swings. Obviously,in case of a problem,my reputation and your esteem would be more valuable than 30% of 90,000 USD (to be shared ...) 5.I declined RISK in Houston and NewYork and am not sure I will have the pleasure to see you in London.In all cases, we should coordinate for Paris soon Helyette