Call for Papers The Finance Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the International Center for Futures and Derivatives at UIC, and members of the R finance community are pleased to announce R/Finance 2009: Applied Finance with R on April 24 and 25, 2009, in Chicago, IL, USA Confirmed keynote speakers include: Patrick Burns (Burns Statistics) David Kane (Kane Capital) Roger Koenker (U of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign) David Ruppert (Cornell) Diethelm Wuertz (ETH Zürich) Eric Zivot (U of Washington) We invite all users of R in Finance to submit one-page abstracts or complete papers (in txt/pdf/doc format). We encourage papers both on academic research topics and related to use of R by Finance practitioners.
Presenters are strongly encouraged to provide working R code to accompany the presentation/paper. Datasets need not be made public. Please send submissions to commit...@rinfinance.com. The submission deadline is January 31st, 2009. Submissions will be evaluated and submitters notified via email on a rolling basis. Additional details about the conference will be announced as available. For the program committee: Gib Bassett, Peter Carl, Dirk Eddelbuettel, John Miller, Brian Peterson, Dale Rosenthal, Jeffrey Ryan _______________________________________________ r-annou...@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.