Just barely six years after launching our MS and improving on last year’s #14 spot, we are thrilled to announce that QuantNet’s 2017 ranking of programs has again recognized our program as one of the top financial engineering MS degrees in the country. Our 2017 composite score left us just …
The Department of Applied Mathematics is hosting the 2017 Western Conference in Mathematical Finance on March 24-25, 2017 on the UW Seattle campus. It is the eighth annual meeting of this group and the first time in Washington. With the recent financial crises, the growth of high-frequency and algorithmic trading …
Congratulations to Professor Matt Lorig, who has been awarded the Early Career Prize by the SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering (SIAG-FME). The prize committee recognized Prof. Lorig for making “mathematically rigorous the asymptotic theory of derivative pricing and implied volatilities in a wide class of sophisticated financial …
CFRM is pleased to announce that Professor Tim Leung has been recognized with an Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence – Outstanding Paper for his paper titled, “The Golden Target: Analyzing the tracking performance of leveraged gold ETFs.” Leung’s work formulates and solves a constrained quadratic minimization problem to construct static replicating portfolios of …
We are pleased to announce that we have completed our 2016 admissions cycle. 31 new students will be arriving in Seattle next month for our on-campus program. 29 students will join our online cohort. Our incoming students were selected from among the top 20% of an applicant pool of over …
After three years of holding program costs steady, we are revising the costs of the CFRM MS and Computational Finance certificate programs in order to keep up with increasing university operational costs. Effective Autumn 2016, the cost per credit in the MS program will be $945, bringing the total cost …
The Computational Finance & Risk Management team wishes to share the news of some faculty and staff changes occurring for the 2016-2017 academic year. In June, Program Director Doug Martin and Executive Director Bill Anderson will be transitioning into retirement from the University of Washington. Both have achieved remarkable success …
If you are considering applying for the MS degree or a 2016 certificate program, or if you have done so and have additional questions, please consider attending our upcoming web-based information session on Wednesday, February 17 at 4:00pm Pacific time. Additional information schedules are also available for RSVP, as is a …
If you are considering applying for the MS degree or a 2016 certificate program, or if you have done so and have additional questions, please consider attending our upcoming web-based information session on Wednesday, January 6 at 4:00pm Pacific time. Additional information schedules are also available for RSVP, as is …
We’ve been busy updating and improving the content and layout of our site. Please let us know if you encounter broken links, missing pages, or if you spot any typographical or content errors. In addition to a cleaner, bolder, brighter design more in line with other refreshed University of Washington sites, …
