The Quantitative Methods in Finance 2008 (QMF 2008) conference will, once again, bring together leading experts in Quantitative Finance from Industry and Academia for a four day conference in Sydney. It is the mission of the conference to provide a forum for recent advances in quantitative finance. QMF presents the latest research from major schools of thought and a diversity of new approaches to Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering and Financial Mathematics.

Focus: Credit Risk, Risk Management, Derivative Pricing, High Dimensional Quantitative Methods and other areas of Quantitative Finance.

Plenary Speakers Include: Tomas Björk, Alex Cerny, Freddy Delbaen, Robert Elliott, Jean-Pierre Fouque,Tom Hurd, Ross Maller, Fabio Mercurio, Hideo Nagai, Alex Novikov, Bernt Øksendal, Marek Rutkowski, Alexander Schied, Uwe Schmock, Christoph Schwab, Albert Shiryaev, Michael Taksar, Nizar Touzi, George Yin.

Paper Submission: Papers must be submitted via the Conference Maker website by 4 May 2008.

If you experience any problems accessing the system, or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Conference Coordinator.

Workshops: There will also be associated practitioner workshops available in the days preceding the conference.

Organisers: Professor Carl Chiarella and Professor Eckhard Platen from the University of Technology, Sydney.