[R-SIG-Finance] R/Finance 2014 Call for Papers

[Brian G. Peterson]

Call for Papers:

R/Finance 2014: Applied Finance with R
May 16 and 17, 2014
University of Illinois at Chicago

The sixth annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R will
be held on May 16 and 17, 2014 in Chicago, IL, USA at the University
of Illinois at Chicago.  The conference will cover topics including
portfolio management, time series analysis, advanced risk tools,
high-performance computing, market microstructure, and econometrics.
All will be discussed within the context of using R as a primary tool
for financial risk management, portfolio construction, and trading.

Over the past five years, R/Finance has included attendees from around
the world. It has featured presentations from prominent academics and
practitioners, and we anticipate another exciting line-up for 2014.

We invite you to submit complete papers in pdf format for
consideration. We will also consider one-page abstracts (in txt or pdf
format), although more complete papers are preferred.  We welcome
submissions for both full talks and abbreviated "lightning talks".
Both academic and practitioner proposals related to R are encouraged.

Presenters are strongly encouraged to provide working R code to
accompany the presentation/paper.  Data sets should also be made
public for the purposes of reproducibility (though we realize this may
be limited due to contracts with data vendors). Preference may be
given to presenters who have released R packages.

The conference will award two (or more) $1000 prizes for best papers.
A submission must be a full paper to be eligible for a best paper
award. Extended abstracts, even if a full paper is provided by
conference time, are not eligible for a best paper award.  Financial
assistance for travel and accommodation may be available to presenters
at the discretion of the conference committee. Requests for assistance
should be made at the time of submission.

Please submit your papers or abstracts online at: http://goo.gl/OmKnu7
The submission deadline is January 31, 2014. Submitters will be
notified of acceptance, whether a presentation will be a long
presentation or a lightning talk, and a decision on any requested
funding will be made via email by February 28, 2014.

Additional details will be announced via the conference website
http://www.RinFinance.com/ as they become available. Information on
previous years' presenters and their presentations are also at the
conference website.

For the program committee:
Gib Bassett, Peter Carl, Dirk Eddelbuettel,
Brian Peterson, Dale Rosenthal, Jeffrey Ryan, Joshua Ulrich