[APDIO] Deadline of Abstract Submission Extended: February 28 --- 55th Meeting of EURO WG "Commodities and Financial Modelling"

["A. Ismael F. Vaz" <aivaz@dps.uminho.pt>]

Dear Colleagues,

the organizers would like to kindly inform you about the

Extended Deadline of Abstract Submission:  February 28, 2015.

Thank you cordially for your valuable consideration.

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55th Meeting of the EURO Working Group "Commodities and Financial Modelling"

METU, Ankara, Turkey, May 14-16, 2015

http://ewgcfm2015.iam.metu.edu.tr/

55th Meeting of the EWGCFM (EWGCFM 2015) is organized by Institute of

Applied Mathematics (IAM; http://iam.metu.edu.tr/) of Middle East Technical

University (METU), EURO Working Group ?Commodities and Financial Modelling?

(EWGCFM; http://www.ewgfm.eu/) and The Association of European Operational

Research Societies (EURO; http://www.euro-online.org/). This conference will

take place at the campus of METU (http://www.metu.edu.tr/) in Ankara,

Turkey, on May 14-16, 2015.

EWGCFM 2015 is an element of the conference series, whose 54th meeting is

going to take place in Milano, Italy, in December 2014. The EURO Working

Group EWGCFM was founded in September 1986 in Lisbon. The primary field of

interest for the working group can be described as "financial models that

help to solve problems faced by financial managers in the firm". EWGCFM 2015

will contribute to this purpose in modelling and problem solving through

advances in theory, methods and practice, by applications of mathematics and

statistics, economics and management sciences, engineering and environmental

sciences, supported by modern Operational Research.

We are pleased to announce the following Invited Speakers of the conference:

Vedat Akgiray  (Bogazici University, Turkey), Constantinos Kardaras  (London

School of Economics, UK), Rüdiger Kiesel  (University of Duisburg-Essen,

Germany), Stan Uryasev  (University of Florida, USA).

Abstract Submission:

We invite all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well as students

interested in commodities and financial modelling to participate at the

conference and to present their research. Abstract submission and

registration are both online, via the conference web page

(http://ewgcfm2015.iam.metu.edu.tr/). Abstracts with max. 3000 characters

should be submitted online latest by February 28, 2015 (extended deadline).

The Conference also offers its registered participants submit their full

manuscript to the "Special Issue of Annals of Operations Research Advances

of OR in Commodities and Financial Modelling". Authors should select the

category "Special Issue: Advances of OR in Commodities and Financial

Modelling" when looking for the (right) special issue in the submission

system.

Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM), established in the year 2002, is a

Graduate School and interdisciplinary centre with four programs:

Financial Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Scientific Computing and

Cryptography; it fosters various research and teaching activities in

mathematical sciences. IAM supports and coordinates mathematics-based

interdisciplinary education and research at METU, and it initiates and

undertakes collaborative research with different industries and scientific

organizations in Turkey, Europe and all over the world. IAM is pleased to

welcome colleagues and friends from Europe and all over the world to celebrate

an unforgettable premium conference at the beautiful campus of METU in Ankara,

capital of hospitable Turkey!

Sevtap Selçuk-Kestel   skestel@metu.edu.tr,

Yeliz Yolcu Okur   yyolcu@metu.edu.tr,

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber   gweber@metu.edu.tr