Scheduled to take place over two days, Friday April 24th and Saturday April 25th, the conference will feature 7 keynote speakers and 11 contributed presentations.
Prior to the official start of the conference on Friday, there will be concurrent tutorial sessions hosted by some of the Chicago conference organizers. Two sessions, of two one hour blocks each, will begin at noon (12:00PM Chicago time) on Friday, and run in parallel. Further details can be found in the box on this page. All TUTORIALS are now sold out.
The conference starts on Friday at 3:00PM and will take place in Lecture Center A1, on the East Campus of UIC. A map can be found here. A formal reception will follow the talks on Friday.
The conference continues Saturday morning at 8:00AM with breakfast, and runs through 6:00PM Saturday evening.
Conference registration is open to students, academics, and industry practicioners by following the link below. Pre-conference tutorials are open to all for an additional fee. Attendence to both tutorials and the conference will be limited.
See the list of speakers here.- PerformanceAnalytics (Peter Carl & Brian Peterson) [SOLD OUT]
- High Performance R (Dirk Eddelbuettel) [SOLD OUT]
- Market Microstructure (Dale Rosenthal) [SOLD OUT]
- xts/quantmod (Jeff Ryan) [SOLD OUT]
Reception 6:00 PM
Breakfast 8:00am-9:00am
Conference starts 9:00am
R/Finance 2009 Detailed Schedule [DOWNLOAD]