Sat, 29 Mar 2014

R / Finance 2014 Open for Registration

The annoucement below just went to the R-SIG-Finance list. More information is as usual at the R / Finance page:

Now open for registrations:

R / Finance 2014: Applied Finance with R
May 16 and 17, 2014
Chicago, IL, USA

The registration for R/Finance 2014 -- which will take place May 16 and 17 in Chicago -- is now open!

Building on the success of the previous conferences in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, we expect around 300 attendees from around the world. R users from industry, academia, and government will joining 30+ presenters covering all areas of finance with R.

We are very excited about the four keynotes by Bill Cleveland, Alexios Ghalanos, Bob McDonald and Luke Tierney. The main agenda (currently) includes sixteen full presentations and twenty-one shorter "lightning talks". We are also excited to offer four optional pre-conference seminars on Friday morning.

To celebrate the sixth year of the conference in style, the dinner will be returning to The Terrace of the Trump Hotel. Overlooking the Chicago River and skyline, it is a perfect venue to continue conversations while dining and drinking.

More details of the agenda are available at:
http://www.RinFinance.com/agenda/
Registration information is available at
http://www.RinFinance.com/register/
and can also be directly accessed by going to
http://www.regonline.com/RFinance2014
We would to thank our 2014 Sponsors for the continued support enabling us to host such an exciting conference:

International Center for Futures and Derivatives at UIC

Revolution Analytics
MS-Computational Finance at University of Washington

OneMarketData
RStudio

On behalf of the committee and sponsors, we look forward to seeing you in Chicago!
Gib Bassett, Peter Carl, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Brian Peterson,
Dale Rosenthal, Jeffrey Ryan, Joshua Ulrich

See you in Chicago in May!

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