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\r\n\r\nIn all professions including academic careers, satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment are not always at hand, leading sometimes to questioning professional choices. Have you experienced not being completely sure of what is professionally right for you? Have you wondered how you could find it out? Do you feel you might be not well equipped to decide on the next step in your career, or to lack orientation? In this workshop, you will be provided with tools and orientation models that will guide you in your career decisions, and implement them. These are based on an authenticity-oriented perspective aiming at a fulfilling work and self-realization experience.
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\r\nThis paper studies optimal financial flexibility in debt issuance. A borrower raises funds for an initial investment and may need financing after observing a private liquidity shock. Under non exclusive lending, new lenders price only their claims, so additional borrowing dilutes existing debt and leads to excessive leverage. The optimal simple debt contract is an endogenous debt limit. It captures the intertemporal commitment–flexibility tradeoff: more borrowing today fi nances investment but increases dilution incentives, requiring tighter limits on future borrowing. Richer clauses, including performance-sensitive debt and contingent prepayment provisions, re store the exclusive-lending benchmark by compensating existing lenders when new financing is raised.
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\r\nAfter quickly recalling the usual categorical semantics of extensional Martin-Löf type theory within locally cartesian closed category, the plan is to present some useful ideas to carry over some of the argument to the higher setting. Specifically, I will discuss the process of turning an elementary higher topos into a model of HoTT, and sketch important ideas used to prove the internal language conjecture for locally cartesian closed (∞,1)-categories.
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\r\n\r\nThesis Director: Prof. M. Jaggi,
\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 10949
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The public lectures (inaugural and farewell lectures of professors as well as the introductory lectures of Privatdozentinnen und -dozenten) have been a long-standing tradition at ETH.
\r\nOnce again, an interesting and varied programme has been created for the coming semester. The selected topics promise stimulating insights into the wide range of research and teaching at ETH Zurich.
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\r\nAll lectures are published in the ETH events calendar.
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\r\nID Multimedia Production offers live streaming from the AudiMax:
\r\nhttps://event.swisscom.ch/v/eth-live-1
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\r\nThe inaugural and farewell lectures will also be recorded and can be accessed here:
\r\nhttps://video.ethz.ch/speakers/lecture.html
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Thesis Directors: Prof. P. Collin-Dufresne, Prof. A. Fuster
\r\nFinance doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11152
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