We've extended the submission deadline to February 28th! So there's still time to submit your talk: http://go.uic.edu/rfinance2020cfp
We would also appreciate your help to spread the word, especially to under-represented groups in finance! On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 2:22 PM Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > R/Finance 2020: Applied Finance with R > June 5 and 6, 2020 > University of Illinois at Chicago > > Call for Presentations > > The twelfth annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R > will be held on June 5 and 6, 2020 in Chicago, IL, USA at the > University of Illinois at Chicago. The conference will cover topics > including portfolio management, time series analysis, advanced risk > tools, high-performance computing, market microstructure, and > econometrics. All will be discussed within the context of using R as a > primary tool for financial model development, risk management, > portfolio construction, and trading. > > From its humble Midwest beginnings, word of the conference spread > among trading desks and universities, until it became the primary > meeting for academics and practitioners interested in using R in > quantitative finance. The conference has featured presentations from > prominent academics and practitioners, and we anticipate another > exciting line-up for 2020. > > We invite you to submit complete papers in pdf format for > consideration. We will also consider one-page abstracts (in txt or pdf > format) although more complete papers are preferred. We welcome > submissions for full talks (approximately 20 min.), abbreviated > “lightning talks” (approximately 6 min.), and (1 hour) pre-conference > tutorials. (Scheduling considerations may require requested full talks > moved to lightning). Both academic and practitioner proposals related > to R are encouraged. > > All slides will be made publicly available at conference time. > Presenters are strongly encouraged to provide working R code to > accompany the slides. Ideally, data sets should be made public for the > purposes of reproducibility (though we realize this may be limited due > to contracts with data vendors). Preference may be given to innovative > research or presenters who have released R packages. > > Please submit proposals online > http://go.uic.edu/rfinance2020CFP > > Limited financial assistance for travel and conference admission may > be available to presenters. As R/Finance is a volunteer open source > effort from which organizers do not profit, resources are derived from > registrations and sponsorship alone. Requests for financial assistance > must be made at the time of submission, and the presenter should > clearly communicate to us why assistance is being requested. We > particularly welcome requests from under- represented minorities in > Quantitative Finance/STEM, and anyone researching under economic > hardship. > > Submissions will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis with a > final submission deadline of February 1, 2020. Submitters will be > notified via email starting February 15, 2020 of acceptance and > presentation length. > > Additional details will be announced via the conference website > http://www.RinFinance.com/ as they become available. Information on > previous years’ presenters and their presentations are also at the > conference website. We will make a separate announcement when > registration opens, in late March. > > For the conference committee: > > Petra Bakosova, Gib Bassett, Peter Carl, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Soumya > Kalra, Dan McMillen, Brian Peterson, Dale Rosenthal, Jeffrey Ryan, > Justin Shea, Joshua Ulrich > -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Finance@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-finance -- Subscriber-posting only. If you want to post, subscribe first. -- Also note that this is not the r-help list where general R questions should go.