Friday, May 17th, 2013 | |
Optional Pre-Conference Tutorials | |
Armstrong/Lewis: An Introduction to Distributed Computing in R | |
Matthew Dowle: Advanced Tutorial on data.table | |
Humme/Peterson: Using quantstrat to evaluate intraday trading strategies | |
Dirk Eddelbuettel: Example-driven Introduction to Rcpp | |
Jeff Ryan: R Programming for Financial Data | |
Registration (2nd floor Inner Circle) & Continental Breakfast (3rd floor by Sponsor Tables) | |
Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
Introduction of Sponsors | |
Ryan Sheftel: R on the Trading Desk | |
David Ardia: Implied expected returns and the choice of a mean-variance efficient portfolio proxy | |
Ronald Hochreiter: Financial Portfolio Optimization with (O)R | |
Break | |
Bernhard Pfaff: Portfolio Selection with Probabilistic Utility: Revisited | |
Maria Belianina: OneTick and R: Handling High and Low Frequency Data | |
Yang Lu: Performance Attribution for Equity Portfolios | |
Michael Kapler: Portfolio Allocation with Cluster Risk Parity | |
Tammer Kamel: Quandl: A new source of financial data for R users | |
Lunch | |
Doug Martin: Robust Covariances And Distances: Common
Risk Factor Versus Idiosyncratic Outliers | |
Giles Heywood: Covariance forecasting for portfolio optimisation | |
Break | |
Ruey Tsay: Multivariate Processes in R | |
Alexios Ghalanos: Time Varying Higher Moments and the Cost of GARCH | |
Kris Boudt: Regime Switches in Volatility and Correlation of Financial Institutions | |
David Matteson: Nonparametric Estimation of Stationarity and Change Points in Finance | |
Celine Sun: Estimating High Dimensional Covariance Matrices Using a Factor Model | |
Winston Chang: Shiny: Building interactive web applications with R | |
Information About Reception, Dinner | |
Conference Reception | |
Optional Conference Dinner (The Terrace at The Trump) | |
Saturday, May 18th, 2013 | |
Coffee / Breakfast | |
Kickoff | |
Christian Silva: Understanding moving averages strategies with the help of toy models using R | |
Vyacheslav Arbuzov: Modeling and analysis of financial crashes using empirical market microstructure with parallel computations in R | |
Stephen Rush: The Bond Coupon's Impact on Liquidity | |
Azzarello/Putnam: A Bayesian interpretation of the Federal Reserve's dual mandate and the Taylor Rule | |
Grant Cavanaugh: Using Markov Models in R to Understand the Lifecycle of Exchange-traded Derivatives | |
Break | |
Jiahan Li: Efficient "Kitchen-Sink" Forecasts for Exchange Rates | |
Thomas Harte: Pricing FX Forwards: Tricks of the Trade | |
Sanjiv Das: R in Academic Finance: From Theory to Practice (with Applications) | |
Lunch | |
Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo: Accelerating R with High-Performance C++ Linear Algebra | |
Klaus Spanderen: R/QuantLib Integration | |
Bryan Lewis: The scidb package: an R interface to SciDB | |
Matthew Dowle: Introduction to data.table | |
Chris Blakely: Realizing the Future with C, Java, and R: A Multi-Language High-Frequency Volatility Modeling Environment | |
Mathieu Lestel: Ex post risk analysis: How the GSoC contributed to PerformanceAnalytics | |
Break | |
Attilio Meucci: Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management - A Visual Introduction | |
Brian Peterson: Implementing Meucci's Work in R | |
Thomas Hanson: The Impact of Computational Error on the Volatility Smile | |
Kam Hamidieh: Recovering Risk Neutral Density from Traded Options Using R | |
Jeffrey Ryan: Options Trading with R: An Introduction to the greeks Package | |
Feedback Forms | |
Paper Awards | |
Conclusion | |
Transition to Jak's | |
Post-conference Drinks at Jak's Tap |