Dear colleagues,

it is a pleasure to announce that the XVIII edition of the traditional Workshop on Quantitative Finance will be held at the University of Milano-Bicocca on January 25-26-27 2017, with a joint organization of the Departments of Economics (DEMS), Mathematics (MATAPP) and Statistics (DISMEQ). Here is the official website:

https://sites.google.com/site/qfw2017/

After the success of last year's edition, we decided to expand the traditional format to *two days and a half*, from Wednesday January 25 afternoon to Friday January 27.

The deadline for submitting an extended abstract is December 1. Notification of acceptance will be given by December 23 and a draft of the full paper for discussion will have to be provided by January 8. Registrations will open on September 15.

We have some funding for accommodation of foreign PhD students. Applications have to be sent to qfw2017@unimib.it.

Looking forward to seeing you in Milan!

Best regards

The organizing committee
Fabio Bellini, Francesco Caravenna, Claudio Morana, Ilaria Peri, Giovanni Puccetti.