http://www-finmath.uchicago.edu/new/msf ... ng.phpHope this helps!

I have great respect for campbell Harvey.But I feel he works mostly in the area of emerging markets especially in the area of market integration,but I dont know how many people willing to make a career in quant finance would find him interesting!!

http://www.wilmottwiki.com/wiki/index.p ... iographies

I doubt whether Eugene Fama still guides phd students.But he does offer a course called research projects in finance wherein students are required to come out with research paper at the end of course.Andrei shleifer would be a good choice as well.

Sheldon Ross,who has now moved to University of southern california from Berkeley.He is more famous for the books written by him.

<r>to some extent i agree with that .....but still there could be few who would have missed these lessons?? I was keeping myself updated using sites such as <URL url="http://www.financeprofessor.com/">http://www.financeprofessor.com/</URL> <URL url="http://www.research-finance.com/but">http://www.re...

Dr. Peter Carr Not sure when he would return to academics!

prof. Craig mackinlayhttp://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/mackinlc.html

Pardon my ignorance, but I was wondering whether if somebody could suggest me an equivalent forum/website like wilmott for corporate finance.Thanks in advance

Pardon my ignorance, but I was wondering whether if somebody could suggest me an equivalent forum/website like wilmott for corporate finance.Thanks in advance

http://www.math.utah.edu/~firas/varadha ... /varadhan/

Prof. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan from Courant institute.Winner of Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society for his work with Daniel W. Stroock on diffusion processes.He was awarded the Abel Prize for his work on large deviations with M. D. Donsker.

If you had read few threads here more closely you would have figured out the answer by now.Any way I would like to bring to your notice that stanford offers you a choice to do minor in business(you can choose to study finance courses) while doing phd from other department.Hope this helps!!

can anybody getaway by saying such a thing?