Call For Papers: Quantitative Methods in Finance 2008

                   ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

            QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN FINANCE 2008 (QMF 2008)

                           Sydney, Australia
                         December 17 - 20, 2008

                     http://www.qfrc.uts.edu.au/qmf


      QMF is a successful conference series that attracts
      internationally renowned academics and industry
      representatives, who are experts in the fields of
      Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering and Financial
      Mathematics.

      The focus for this year's conference is Credit Risk, Risk
      Management, Derivative Pricing, High Dimensional
      Quantitative Methods and other areas of Quantitative
      Finance.


      SPEAKERS:

      This year's plenary speakers include Tomas Bjork, Freddy
      Delbaen, Robert Elliott, Jean-Pierre Fouque, Juri Hinz,
      Tom Hurd, Ross Maller, Fabio Mercurio, Hideo Nagai, Alex
      Novikov, Bernt Oksendal, Marek Rutkowski, Alexander Schied,
      Uwe Schmock, George Yin.


      PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

      The submission deadline is May 4, 2008. Papers must be
      submitted via the conference website which can be accessed
      at:

                     http://www.qfrc.uts.edu.au/qmf


      FURTHER INFORMATION:

      There will also be associated practitioner workshops
      presented on 15 and 16 December. These workshops will be
      presented by Uwe Schmock. Further information will be
      available later in the year.

      Special room rates have been negotiated for conference
      participants at the QMF 2008 conference venue, the Amora
      Hotel Sydney.

      The conference is organised by Prof. Eckhard Platen and
      Prof. Carl Chiarella of the Quantitative Finance Research
      Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney.

      Please contact the Conference Coordinator, Susanna Smith
      for further information or visit:

                     http://www.qfrc.uts.edu.au/qmf

      CONTACT:       Susanna Smith
                     Quantitative Finance Research Centre
                     School of Finance & Economics
                     University of Technology, Sydney
                     PO Box 123
                     Broadway NSW 2007
                     Australia
      Tel:           + 61 2 9514 7735
      Fax:           + 61 2 9514 7722
      Email:         MAILTO:qmf@uts.edu.au
Posted 4/7/08