Young Finance Scholars' Conference and Quant Finance Workshop

The Finance group at the University of Sussex is pleased to announce a conference that is specially designed for junior scholars in Finance, followed by a (separately bookable) Quantitative Finance Workshop. Both events are hosted by the Department of Business and Management in the School of Business, Management and Economics.

The conference provides an opportunity for junior scholars that have little (or no) experience with publishing in academic journals to share their research, debate their methodology and results, network with their peers from other institutions and – primarily – to receive expert comment and advice on publication from leading finance academics, including:

• Professor Carol Alexander – University of Sussex
• Professor Ben Hambly – University of Oxford
• Professor Mike Lipkin – Columbia University, New York
• Professor Brian Lucey – Trinity College, Dublin
• Dr. Norman Seeger – VU University, Amsterdam

The workshop is given by Mike Lipkin, a renowned specialist on Event-Driven Finance and co-author (with Marco Avallaneda) of the paper winning the Risk Magazine Quant-of-the-year award 2010. Designed to appeal to both practitioners and academics, Mike will describe his path-breaking work on trading attendant to market events, such as earnings announcements or crashes. Places are limited and workshop participation is allocated on a first come first served basis.

Please visit our website www.sussex.ac.uk/bmec/qfin for more details on the conference and workshop and to register.