Thursday, April 28th, 2011
09:00 - 17:00Optional Pre-Conference Workshop
Eddelbuettel/Francois R / C++ Integration with Rcpp and RInside
Friday, April 29th, 2011
09:00 - 11:00Optional Pre-Conference Tutorials
Ryan Automated Trading with R
Yollin High-Frequency Financial Data Analysis with R
Zivot Financial Risk Models with R
12:15 - 12:30Welcome and opening remarks
12:30 - 13:20Faber Global Tactical Investing
13:20 - 13:40Boudt Intraday Liquidity Dynamics Of The DJIA Around Price Jumps (pdf)
13:40 - 14:00Dunand-Chatellet Mutually Exciting Hawkes Processes for Microstructure Noise Modelling (pdf)
14:00 - 14:20Kane Evaluating the Effect of FINRA's New Circuit Breaker Regulation (pdf)
14:20 - 14:50Break
14:50 - 15:40Iacus Statistical Analysis of Financial Time Series and Option Pricing in R (pdf)
15:40 - 16:00Switanek The Impact of News Readability on Market Response Times (pdf)
16:00 - 16:20Break
16:20 - 16:40Lewis The betfair Package (pdf)
16:40 - 17:00Kumar Carry Trades - Don't Get Carried Away (pdf)
17:00 - 17:30Nelson Beyond VignettesDexy for Documenting R and More (pdf)
Rothermich Alt. Data Sources for Measuring Market Sentiment and Events (pdf)
Long The Segue Package for R (pdf)
17:30 - 22:00Conference Reception and optional Dinner (East Terrace and Rivers Restaurant)
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
08:00 - 09:00Continental Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30Rowe A Beautiful ParadigmFunctional Programming in Finance (pdf)
Ryan High Performance Time Series in Rxtime, xts, and indexing (pdf)
Peterson Building and Testing Quantitative Strategy Models in R (pdf)
09:30 - 09:50Zivot Factor Risk and Performance Attribution (pptx)
09:50 - 10:10Gramacy Shrinkage Regression for Multivariate Inference with missing data (pdf)
10:10 - 10:30Break
10:30 - 10:50Martin Tail Risk Budgeting versus Modern Portfolio Theory (pptx)
10:50 - 11:10Niemenmaa Benchmarking Parallel Loops Without Data Dependency in R (ppt)
11:10 - 12:00Bollinger Yesterday, Today and TomorrowA Trip Through Computational Finance (ppt)
12:00 - 13:30Sponsor Lunch with presentations by Revolution, OneTick and RStudio
Yollin Can you do better than cap-weighted equity benchmarks (pdf)
Belianina Solutions from OneTick and R (pptx)
Cheng RStudio (pdf)
13:30 - 14:00Teetor Better Hedge Ratios (pdf)
Ang The Impact of Oil Prices on the Houston Housing Market and Economy (ppt)
Yadav Modeling Low Default Credit Portfolios in R (pdf)
14:00 - 14:20Wildi Multivariate DFA
14:20 - 14:40Matteson Independent Component Analysis via Distance Covariance (pdf)
14:40 - 15:00Break
15:00 - 15:50Kates R and proto (pptx)
15:50 - 16:10Vermes Stochastic Volatility Models Massively Parallel in R (pdf)
16:10 - 16:30Pfaff Interfacing NEOS from RThe rneos Package (pdf)
16:30 - 17:00Horner RackA Web Server Interface for R (pdf)
Haynold: RserveCLIAn Rserve Client Implementation for CLI/.NET (pdf)
North Repast Simphony (ppt)
17:00 - 17:15Closing remarks