SUBDIVISIONS
Financial Services Section (FSS)
The purposes of
the Financial Services Section of INFORMS are:
- To
lead in the development, dissemination and implementation of knowledge,
basic and applied research and technologies in the area of Financial
Services (retail banking, credit
cards, brokerages, investment banking, insurance, etc.), and to promote high
professional standards and integrity in all work done in the field.
- To
provide a continuing, specialized focus within INFORMS on the topic of
Financial Services, with the aim of identifying current and potential
problems and contributions to their solutions.
- To
support efforts to extend, unify and integrate related branches of
knowledge and practice.
- To
support the free interchange of information, encourage discussion and
interaction among individuals having interest in this field by providing
the opportunity for these individuals to meet and to exchange information,
ideas, experiences, and techniques.
- To
stimulate the type of cross-fertilization that can best be accomplished
within the framework of a professional organization.
- To
encourage the education of students and the continuing education of
practitioners in this field of knowledge.
The Section also
promotes communication and interaction among individuals from industry,
government, and academia who share interests in these areas.
Membership Please consider joining the Section, if you are not already a
member. Apply here.
We encourage researchers in the financial services industry (retail
banks, credit card companies, brokerages, investment banks, insurance, etc.) and
academics with an interest in financial services to become members of our
Section.
Announcing the FSS Prize
winners for 2009
Best Student Research Paper Award
$500 First
Place
Ming Liu, Northwestern University
$250
Second Place(tie)
Romain
Deguest, Columbia University
Yu Hang Kan,
Columbia University
Conferences and
Workshops
INFORMS Annual Conference in San Diego, CA,
Oct 11-14, 2009
Job openings on the INFORMS site.
OR/MS Today job ads.
To post optimization and modeling
jobs in financial services, please send information here.
Interesting
Articles on Optimization and Modeling in Financial Services
If you come across an interesting
article (that is not overly commercial), please share it with us.
Research Papers
in Financial Services
If you have or know of a research
paper you would like to share with others on this forum, please send its link
to us.
Chair: Prof. Aparna Gupta, RPI
Vice Chair (Academic): Prof.
Chanaka Edirisinghe, Univ. of Tennessee
Vice Chair (Industry): Dr. Jim
Bander, Response Analytics, Inc.
Treasurer: Bruce Moore,
Credit Union of Texas
Secretary: Prof. Jim Primbs,
Stanford University
Contact
Please send any communications
regarding the Financial Services Section to Aparna Gupta at the address listed
below.
Email
ID: guptaa, Email address: rpi.edu
This
page was created by Suresh Nair, and is maintained by Jim Primbs. Please send
comments or suggestions to japrimbs@stanford.edu.
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