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29-30 April 2011
Chicago, IL, USA
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The third annual R/Finance conference for applied finance usingRwill be held this spring in
Chicago, IL, USA on April 29 and 30, 2011. The two-day conference will cover topics
including portfolio management, time series analysis, advanced risk tools, high-performance
computing,market microstructureand econometrics. All will be discussed within the context
of using R as a primary tool for financial risk management, portfolio construction, and
trading.
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Complete papers or one-page abstracts (in txt or pdf format) are invited to be submitted for
consideration. Academic and practitioner proposals related to R are encouraged. We
welcome submissions for full talks, abbreviated "lightning talks", and for a limited number of
pre-conference (longer) seminar sessions.
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Presenters are strongly encouraged to provide working R code to accompany the
presentation/paper. Data sets should also 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 presenters who have released R packages.
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The conference will award two $1000 prizes for best paper: one for best practitioner-
oriented paper and one for best academic-oriented paper. Further, to defray costs for
graduate students, two travel and expense grants of up to $500 each will be awarded to
graduate students whose papers are accepted. To be eligible, a submission must be a full
paper; extended abstracts are not eligible.
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The submission deadline is February 15th, 2011. Early submissions may receive early
acceptance and scheduling. The graduate student grant winners will be notified by February
23rd, 2011.
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Submissions will be evaluated and submitters notified via email on a rolling basis.
Determination of whether a presentation will be a long presentation or a lightning talk will
be made once the full list of presenters is known.
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R/Finance 2009 and 2010 included attendees from around the world and featured keynote
presentations from prominent academics and practitioners. 2009-2010 presenters names
and presentations are online at the conference website. We anticipate another exciting line-
up for 2011---including keynote presentations from John Bollinger, Mebane Faber, Stefano
Iacus, and Louis Kates. Additional details will be announced viathe conference website
www.RinFinance.com as they become available.
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Please send submissions to: committee  RinFinance.com
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