2002 Archive

Dec 17, 2002

First "Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Finance" Program

Start of the first "Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Finance" Program, a fourteen months training course in financial economics and quantitative methods for finance offered jointly by the ETH Zürich Department of Mathematics and the Bank Institute of the University of Zürich. From over one hundred applicants, most of them with a degree in mathematics or economy, twenty-two students were admitted into the program. For more information see http://www.msfinance.ethz.ch

Published: Dec 17, 2002
Susanne H. Keller

Dec 17, 2002

COLAB: First Special Course on Parallel Methods in Numerical Analysis

The first Special Course on Parallel Methods in Numerical Analysis organized by the CoLab from December 9th to 13th attracted twenty doctoral and post-doctoral students of ETH, the PSI, and the University of Zürich representing a broad array of disciplines. The course offered by Prof. J.J. Alonso and Dr. M. Fatica of Stanford University also gave the students the opportunity to do practical assignments on a Beowulf Cluster. The lecture notes can be found at http://colab.ethz.ch/workshop.html

Published: Dec 17, 2002
Susanne H. Keller

Oct 18, 2002

RISK DAY 2002 Mini-Conference on Risk Management in Finance and Insurance

The Risk Day 2002 organized by the Risk Lab ETH Zürich and ISB University of Zürich took place on Friday, 18 October from 08:50 am to 05:00 pm at the Lecture Hall HG F 5 in the ETH Mainbuilding at Rämistrasse 101. For further information please contact Dr. Uwe Schmock phone 01/632 3414, schmock@math.ethz.ch. Abstracts and a picture gallery are available on the web: http://www.math.ethz.ch/finance/Risk-Day-2002.html#Pictures

Published: Nov 1, 2002
Susanne H. Keller

Oct 15, 2002 - Oct 17, 2002

S-PLUS Essentials for Finance

The S-PLUS Essentials for Finance took place from October 15-17, 2002, and was a hands-on training course that covered a broad spectrum of topics. Organizer: PD Dr. Uwe Schmock;phone 01/632 3414, schmock@math.ethz.ch.
http://www.msfinance.ch/S-PlusCourse2002.html

Published: Nov 1, 2002
Susanne H. Keller

Nov 01, 2002

Inter-Disciplinary Doctoral Summer School: 29 August to 4 September 2002: "Information Environments: Analysis and Design"

The first interdisciplinary summer school took place in August 2002 at ETH Zürich. Sixteen participants from Algeria, Austria, Germany, Italy, Romania, Tunesia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Switzerland worked in project groups to examine and develop new possibilities of support for the access, recording and retrieval of tourist information. A picture gallery will soon be availabe on the web. The project central to the summer school was the group project undertaken by students. The project involved field studies, data analysis, a requirements specification and the conceptual design of a system based on an emerging technology – digitally augmented paper. The focus of the project was to consider ways in which new technologies could be used to support various forms of tourist activities. Contact Prof. Moira Norrie, Information Science, norrie@inf.ethz.ch or visit the websitehttp://alba.ethz.ch:8080/omswe/sep.

Published: Nov 1, 2002
Susanne H. Keller

Nov 01, 2002

COLAB FELLOWS

On October 1st, the first two Fellows took up their activity at the CoLab, which has now moved to new premises at Hirschengraben 84 in Zürich. For further information both researchers can be contacted through Dr. Sybille Müller, CoLab, phone: 01/632 6827 or by email: muellers@inf.ethz.ch.
CoLab

Published: Nov 1, 2002
Susanne H. Keller