The fifth annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R, the premier free software system for statistical computation and graphics, will be held this spring in Chicago, IL, USA on Friday May 17 and Saturday May 18, 2013. The two-day conference will cover portfolio management, time series analysis, advanced risk tools, high-performance computing, econometrics and more. All will be discussed within the context of using R as a primary tool for financial risk management, analysis and trading.

The workshop addresses recent mathematical advances in the analysis of stochastic models for complex economic and financial systems. The focus will be on

Organizers: Paolo Guasoni (DCU), Eberhard Mayerhofer (DCU) and Irene Ward (UCD)

Co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies

The Norwegian Centre for Microfinance Research will host the conference that aims to be the world's most important meeting place of academics involved in microfinance research.

The conference is a three-day event that includes plenary panel discussions and parallel sessions during which research papers will be presented and discussed. The panel discussion will include invited renowned speakers with an academic and practical background.

The conference is organized by the Committee of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics University of Warsaw and the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, under the honorary patronage of the Rector of the University of Warsaw.

The Conference is the 6th General Conference of the network Advanced Mathematical Methods for Finance (AMaMeF). Former conferences were: in April 2006 in Side (Turkey), in May 2007 in Bedlewo (Poland), in May 2008 in Pitesti (Romania), in May 2009 in Alesund (Norway) and in May 2010 in Bled (Slovenia).

The conference will include the following topics:

The WU Gutmann Center for Portfolio Management is proud to announce its seventh symposium to be held at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria.

The International Cramér Symposium on Insurance Mathematics will be held at Stockholm University on 11-14 June, 2013.

The symposium is organised by the Department of Mathematics (Institute of Insurance Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) at Stockholm University in cooperation with the Scandinavian Actuarial Journal. Participation in the symposium is open to researchers, students, practitioners in business and industry and other specialists from all countries.

The symposium is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding Swedish mathematician, Harald Cramér, the former Vice-Chancellor of Stockholm University, and the head of the Institute of Insurance Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Stockholm University founded by him in 1929.

The symposium will also mark the centenary of the Scandinavian Actuarial Journal. Harald Cramér was for many years the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.

The International Cramér Symposium on Insurance Mathematics will be organized as a high level scientific forum, where innovative results, new ideas and problems in the area of insurance mathematics will be presented and discussed. The symposium intends to stimulate cooperation between academic research groups and people from the insurance business in the area of insurance mathematics; to promote further development of graduate and postgraduate actuarial education; to update and to spread knowledge about the history of insurance mathematics; and to discuss the future development of insurance mathematics.

The main topics of the symposium are:

The 18th Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2013) offers an opportunity to present the latest research on various aspects of the economy as a complex system made up of multiple heterogeneous interacting agents. Research from different domains, at the crossing of various disciplines – economics, psychology, sociology, computer sciences, engineering, physics - are useful for developing more satisfactory approaches to (macro) econometrics and (macro) economic theory. These approaches have already brought some improvement in the understanding of problems facing the world economy, such as the financial crisis, segregation, unemployment and poverty, and the need for sustainable development. The workshop aims to make progress in understanding and solving them.

Since 1981, ASMDA aims to serve as the interface between Stochastic Modeling and Data Analysis and their real life applications particularly in Business, Finance and Insurance, Management, Production and Reliability, Biology and Medicine.

Keynote Speech: The Keynote Speaker will be Professor John Campbell
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Keynote speakers will include:
Professor Sir Anthony Atkinson, Professor Johnston Birchall, Professor William Lazonick.

Read our interview with Luigi Ballabio about the origins of QuantLib, the plans for the future and a run-down on what to expect from this course.

The main goal of the ICE 2013 is to provide an opportunity for academics and professionals from a variety of fields to meet and exchange ideas and expertise.

Models, Algorithms and Practice with application to derivatives pricing, risk measures and CVA