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R for Finance Workshop

2013 March 5-6 in London.

The target audience are professionals and academics, who wish to learn the basics of the statistical software R and its use in Finance.

The workshop is led by Ron Hochreiter, Pat Burns and Michael Sun.

Details are on the Unicom website.  Please reference Burns Statistics when you register.

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Thalesians (New York)

2013 February 12 (real soon now).  Alexander Eydeland on “Models in Commodity Markets”.

Details on the Thalesian website.

14-10 Club

2013 February 20.

Moorad Choudhry on “Derivatives and FVA”.  John Wheater & Jo Dunkley on “Gravity from Stochastics to Cosmology”

Details at the 14-10 website.

Understanding R

2013 March 4 in London.  A free one-day event.

Understanding R is a workshop aimed at IT professionals or Business Managers who are unfamiliar with this open source programming language or who have had no previous experience of managing the usage of R within a commercial
environment. The aim of the workshop is to showcase the capabilities of R whilst at the same time providing advice on the secure installation, management, security, support and best practices relating to R usage and implementation.

Understanding R is free to attend, but spaces are limited.  Those wishing to register for the workshop should please email: training@mango-solutions.com

14-10 Club

2013 March 7.

George Magnus on “The Great Re-convergence”.  Marco Dion on “How to use Language Recognition Algorithms to analyse news flow and improve systematic trading strategies”.

Details at the 14-10 website.

LondonR

2012 March 19.

New venue: Balls Brothers, Minster Pavement, Mincing Lane, London EC3R 7PP (note: meeting room is downstairs on the left as you enter the venue)

5-6pm: Pre Meeting Workshop*:  “Report Generation in R” – Gemma Stephenson, Mango Solutions

6 pm: Main LondonR meeting (presentations begin at 6.30pm)

• Open Data comes to the NHS – Francine Bennett, Mastodon C

• High-throughput/flow Cytometry Data and how to Load, Transform and Visualise Data and Gate Populations – Ulrike Naumann

• Enterprise grade R on Spotfire – David Rice, Agilexi

Details and (free) registration at http://www.londonr.org/

14-10 Club

2013 April 17.

Julian Baggini on “Why Science Can Never Kill Philosophy”.  Paul Craven on “Behavioural Finance: from biases to bubbles”.

Details at the 14-10 website.

14-10 Club

2013 May 9.

Brian Foster on “Partical physics”.  Yasmine Hayek Kobiessi on “Multifractal-Financial-Markets-Alternative”.

Details at the 14-10 website.

Forecasting Financial Markets

2013 May 29-31 in Hanover, Germany.

Details on the conference website.

14-10 Club

2013 June 13.

Greg Davies on “Behavioural and Quantitative Finance”.  Alexis Kirke presumably saying something about computer music.

Details at the 14-10 website.

Previously Announced

PMAR North America

Performance Measurement, Attribution and Risk.

2013 May 16-17, Philadelphia.

Details at the Spaulding Group.

R/Finance

2013 May 17-18 in Chicago (of course).

See the conference website.

PMAR Europe

Performance Measurement, Attribution and Risk.

2013 June 11-12, London.

Details at the Spaulding Group.

useR! 2013

2013 July 10-12, La Mancha.

The conference website is http://www3.uclm.es/congresos/useR-2013/

Follow on twitter: @useR_2013

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