First Announcement: XVII WORKSHOP on QUANTITATIVE FINANCE January 28-29, 2016 Venue: Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 Pisa Italy The Workshop is the seventeenth edition of an annual meeting place for academia and financial industry on theoretical topics of quantitative finance and their application to the current issues facing the industry. The Workshop welcomes contributions from Mathematical Finance, Quantitative Risk Management, Financial Economics, Computational Finance, Financial Econometrics, Statistics of Financial Markets, Corporate Finance. As in the previous edition of the workshop, we wish to particularly encourage an international participation of young researchers and both theoretical and applied contributions. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Fabio Bellini (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca), Giacomo Bormetti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Andrea Consiglio (Università degli Studi di Palermo), Friederich Hubalek (Technische Universität Wien), Fabrizio Lillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Elisa Luciano (Università degli Studi di Torino), Maria Elvira Mancino (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Stefano Marmi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Massimo Morini (Banca IMI), Aldo Nassigh (Unicredit Group), Loriana Pelizzon (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Mustafa Pinar (Bilkent University, Ankara), Mathieu Rosenbaum (École Polytechnique, Paris), Sergio Scarlatti (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Carlo Sgarra (Politecnico di Milano), Peter Tankov (Université Denis Diderot, Paris), Josef Teichmann (ETH Zurich), and Tiziano Vargiolu (Università degli Studi di Padova). LOCAL COMMITTEE Giacomo Bormetti, Fabrizio Lillo, Maria Elvira Mancino, Stefano Marmi, Davide Pirino, Daniele Regoli, Chiara Sabelli. Deadline for submission: November 8, 2015 Web site: http://mathfinance.sns.it/qfwxvii/ ---------------------------------------- Fabrizio Lillo Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 Pisa ITALY Check the new website: fabriziolillo.wordpress.com phone: +39 050509159