[R-SIG-Finance] Ten days remaining for R/Finance 2013 registrations

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

R/Finance 2013 is coming up in ten days on May 17 and 18.  Registration is
going strong at (currently) just under 200 registrants with about 100 spots
remaining. 

The earlier announcement is below for your convenience. 

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago in ten days.

Dirk

| Now open for registrations --- and more details as always at http://www.RinFinance.com :
| 
|   R / Finance 2013: Applied Finance with R
|   May 17 and 18, 2013 
|   Chicago, IL, USA
| 
|   The registration for R/Finance 2013 -- which will take place May 17 and 18
|   in Chicago -- is NOW OPEN!
| 
|   Building on the success of the previous conferences in 2009, 2010, 2011 and
|   2012, we expect more than 250 attendees from around the world. R users from
|   industry, academia, and government will joining 30+ presenters covering all
|   areas of finance with R.
| 
|   We are very excited about the four keynotes by Sanjiv Das, Attilio Meucci,
|   Ryan Sheftel and Ruey Tsay.  The main agenda (currently) includes seventeen
|   full presentations and fifteen shorter "lightning talks". We are also
|   excited to offer five optional pre-conference seminars on Friday morning.
| 
|   To celebrate the fifth year of the conference in style, the dinner will be
|   held at The Terrace of the Trump Hotel. Overlooking the Chicago River and
|   skyline, it is a perfect venue to continue conversations while dining and
|   drinking.
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|   More details of the agenda are available at:
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|     http://www.RinFinance.com/agenda/
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|   Registration information is available at
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|     http://www.RinFinance.com/register/
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|   and can also be directly accessed by going to
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|     http://www.regonline.com/RFinance2013
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|   We would to thank our 2013 Sponsors for the continued support enabling us
|   to host such an exciting conference:
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|     International Center for Futures and Derivatives at UIC
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|     Revolution Analytics
|     MS-Computational Finance at University of Washington
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|     Google
|     lemnica
|     OpenGamma
|     OneMarketData
|     RStudio
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|   On behalf of the committee and sponsors, we look forward to seeing you in
|   Chicago!
| 
|     Gib Bassett, Peter Carl, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Brian Peterson, 
|     Dale Rosenthal, Jeffrey Ryan, Joshua Ulrich
| 
| See you in Chicago in May!!
| 
| Dirk

-- 
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com