The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, the Society for Financial Econometrics and the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics are co-sponsoring the 2018 SoFIE Summer School in Chicago
from Monday, July 23 (noon) to Friday, July 27, 2018 (1:15pm)
at the University of Chicago, 5757 S. University Ave, Chicago (Saieh Hall for Economics, on UC main Campus in Hyde Park)
on “Machine Learning and Finance: The New Empirical Asset Pricing”

Lecturers:

• Bryan T. Kelly, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management, Yale University
• Dacheng Xiu, Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Keynote Speakers:

• Li Deng, Chief AI Officer at Citadel
• Cam Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, former president of the American Finance Association and former editor of Journal of Finance.
• Asaf Manela, Associate Professor of Finance, Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School
• Nicholas Polson, Robert Law, Jr. Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Allan Timmermann, Atkinson/Epstein Distinguished Professor of Finance, Co-Director, Master of Finance Program, Rady School of Management, University of California San Diego

Useful Links:

• 2018 SoFiE Summer School 2018: Program –  Program and Logistics  – Schedule 
• To submit your application
  Acceptance emails were sent on Friday, April 20. If you’ve been accepted, your deadline to register is June 15, 2018. Your registration is confirmed at the time your payment is submitted. If you’ve missed the application deadline and would like to join our waitlist, please email sbendier@uchicago.edu
• To receive information and updates about the 2018 SoFiE Summer School at the University of Chicago