Internal Newsletter

We will have a monthly internal newsletter about our COST Action. Please add any information you want to have included here. There is also an External Newsletter.

December 1, 2020

Update from the Action Chair

Joerg Osterrieder

• Meeting minutes for the 2nd MC meeting which took place November 12, 2020, are now available.

Diversity

• Proposal from the COST Officer: A regular gender balance session during each meeting, focussed on one topic each.
• Example for the role of female scientists, one example from another Action
• Our Action was one of only two academic partners of the Quant Insights Conference 2020, featuring talks from Dr. Harry Markowitz, Dr. Paul Wilmott, Nassim Taleb, Professor Emanuel Derman, Elie Ayache, Aaron Brown, Jim Gatheral, and many more to discover the latest innovations in volatility, agent-based modeling, portfolio optimization, and risk. (Thanks to Natalie!)

Activities

• We are welcoming submissions to the Area of “Data Science and Analytics” @ EURO 2021, Athens (Greece), July 11-14, 2021. We have a number of sessions in place around, among others, the topics of Business Analytics, Data Science and Mathematical Optimization, Ethics in Analytics, Explainability and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence. Get in touch with Dolores Romero Morales if you would like to organize a session or submit a paper.

• Members of our Action have applied to the Chist-Era 2021 consultation with the proposals on Reinforcement Learning and ESG.

Call for participation

• Due to the extension of the Grant Period until October 31, 2021, please update any activities you would like to request funding for.
• The COST Officer asks us to update our e-cost profiles. We can all register as evaluators.
• Should you have publications related to our COST topics, please kindly add them under Official COST FinAI Publications.
• Who is interested in taking on responsibility for twitter, facebook, linkedin?
• We need a diversity team (please contact Tatjana for more details), with a survey focussing on our Action (example)

Update from the Grant Holder

(Branka Hadji Misheva)

Update from the working groups

(Wolfgang K. Härdle, Petre Lameski, Peter Schwendner)

If you want to join a working group, please fill in your details here and the corresponding google sheet for

• WG1
• WG2
• WG3

Update from the Science communication officer and the stakeholder leadership team

(Anita Pelle, Ronald Kleverlaan, Ania Zalewska, Susanne Durst)

January 6, 2020

Happy New Year 2021

Update from the Action Chair

Joerg Osterrieder

Update from the working groups

(Wolfgang K. Härdle, Petre Lameski, Peter Schwendner)

Update from the grand holder

(Branka Hadji Misheva)

Update from the Science communication officer and the stakeholder leadership team

(Anita Pelle, Ronald Kleverlaan, Ania Zalewska, Susanne Durst)

February 1, 2020

Update from the Action Chair

Joerg Osterrieder

Update from the working groups

(Wolfgang K. Härdle, Petre Lameski, Peter Schwendner)

Update from the grand holder

(Branka Hadji Misheva)

Update from the Science communication officer and the stakeholder leadership team

(Anita Pelle, Ronald Kleverlaan, Ania Zalewska, Susanne Durst)

March 1, 2021

Update from the Action Chair

Joerg Osterrieder

• Outlook for 2021, COST FinAI Time-Tables, Activities, Events, Goals and Deliverables

Update from the working groups

(Wolfgang K. Härdle, Petre Lameski, Peter Schwendner)

Update from the grand holder

(Branka Hadji Misheva)

Update from the Science communication officer and the stakeholder leadership team

(Anita Pelle, Ronald Kleverlaan, Ania Zalewska, Susanne Durst)