This is a touch on the navel-gazing side but, at the same time, since everyone seems to agree that having high-quality universities is an important element in future economic growth, it seems worthwhile explaining how academics actually work.
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Robert Merton will give the RIA Hamilton Lecture on October 15 at TCD on the topic
Observations on Mathematical Finance in the Practice of Finance
The event is free but you need to book a spot: the details are here.
The 7th annual meeting of the Irish Society of New Economists (ISNE) will take place in Trinity College Dublin on 24-25 September, 2010. This year’s conference is organised by Trinity PhD students Christian Danne, Benjamin Elsner and Eoin McGuirk; and features 28 sessions over two days with 112 presentations in total. The keynote speaker is Professor Philip Lane. The conference programme can be viewed and downloaded here; the schedule of talks is on pages 12-19 of the Pdf.
More information: http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/isne
Alanna Gallagher has a piece on the impact of the Luas on house prices in today’s Times. It’s a mix of facts and anecdotes that reminds us of some of the positive effects of proper public transport in a city. At the same time, the fact that people are willing to pay a hefty premium for being near a Luas station reflects badly on transport options in the rest of Dublin.
Next May 20th, the Financial Mathematics and Computation Cluster (FMCC) will again hold a conference on financial risk modeling of European investable assets (see below). Once again the conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland, poster child for the flaws in Eurozone financial risk architecture. As was the case last year, we hope to attract papers covering the full span of Eurozone risk modeling and analysis. In addition to the Call for Papers, the FMCC is actively seeking industry partners for this conference and our other research-practitioner outreach programmes. For more details contact gregory.connor@nuim.ie or irene.moore@ucd.ie.