Symposium on agent-based modeling, risk, and finance

date: 
8 Nov 2007 - 9 Nov 2007

Can physicists beat the markets?
A retrospective of the first ten years of Econophysics and prospects.

Organisers:
Dr D. Challet, Fribourg University and ISI
Dr. A. De Martino, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Prof. Y-C Zhang, Fribourg University

(An event by invitation only (matus.medo@unifr.ch), University of Fribourg,
Switzerland, 8-9 November 2007, sponsored by Fribourg Univ. and La Sapienza
Univ.)

Confirmed speakers:
Christophe Aebischer, SwissRe
Damien Challet, Physics Department, Fribourg and ISI Turin
Ton Coolen, King's College, London
Michel Dacorogna, Scor
Stéphane Daul, RiskMetrics
Andrea De Martino, La Sapienza, Rome
Tobias Galla, Theoretical Physics, Manchester
Sorin Solomon, Hebrew University and ISI Turin
Didier Sornette, ETH, Zürich
Yi-Cheng Zhang, Physics Department, Fribourg
Gilles Zumbach, RiskMetrics

To be confirmed:
Matteo Marsili, ITCP, Trieste
and a few new speakers