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New Directions in Risk Modelling and Financial Planning
18-19 May 2005
London
- International seminar: New Directions in Risk Modelling and Financial Planning on 18-19 May at 09:30 - 17:00 Hours (www.unicom.co.uk/carismalaunch)
- Evening reception on 18 May at 17:30 Hours (attendance at this reception is complimentary).
Background and objectives
The objective of the two-day seminar is to bring together practitioners, academics and PhD students working in the area of financial planning, optimisation and risk modelling. The seminar will provide an opportunity for participants engaged at the forefront of this area to discuss problems and challenges and suggest fruitful directions for future research which focus on the emerging requirements of the finance industry.
The speaker panel includes world leaders such as David Heath, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanley R Pliska, University of Illinois at Chicago and many others. All the speakers have achieved distinction through their research contributions and also possess wide experience of real world applications of highly sophisticated quantitative models.
The speakers
USA
- David Heath, Carnegie Mellon University
- Stanley R Pliska, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Carlos Blanco, Black Swan Risk Advisor
- Stan Uryasev, University of Florida
- John Blin, APT
EUROPE
- Georg Pflug, University of Vienna
- Gautam Mitra, CARISMA
- Kevin Dowd, University of Nottingham and Black Swan Risk Advisors
- Mark HA Davis, Imperial College
- Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research, Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University
- Nicos Christofides, Centre for Quantitative Finance, Imperial College
- Svetlozar (Zari) T Rachev, University of Karlsruhe, University of California at Santa Barbara and FinAnalytica.
Information
UNICOM Seminars is carrying out the event management on behalf of CARISMA. Please find details of the seminar on www.unicom.co.uk/carismalaunch
We would be very pleased if you could attend this event. Please also make your colleagues aware of it.
The attendance fees are keenly priced, with a view to wide participation by financial professionals and academics involved in this field. The fees are:
- Industry: £300 for one day and £550 for both days (+ VAT)
- Academia: £95 for one day, £175 for both days (+ VAT)
Two-day seminar that brings together practitioners, academics & researchers working in financial planning, optimization & risk modelling, and demonstrates the innovative thinking & best practices currently being developed in some of the world’s leading educational institutions.
A special feature of this event is the launch of CARISMA (The Centre The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications) 18 May at 18.00hrs. Attendance at the launch is complimentary by invitation.
Venue
Venue: Institute of Actuaries
Staple Inn Hall, High Holborn, London WC1V 7QJ