Category Archives: Conferences

June is a busy conference month

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: April 27, 2011
Quite a few conferences and workshops on financial networks are being held in June this year. Here are the ones with open participation. First, there is NetSci2011 in Budapest on 6-10 June. It hosts two interesting “Satellite events”, a business network research conference Circuits of Profit on 6 June and Network of Networks which [...]
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NetSci2011 and Complex Systems by DNB

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: February 26, 2011
NetSci2011 will take place in Budapest on 6-10 June 2011 bringing together researchers, practitioners, and teachers in network science across disciplines. The conferece will host a number of shorter satellite events including the business network research conference Circuits of Profit and NetONets focusing on Systemic Risk and Infrastructure Interdependencies. De Nederlandsche Bank [...]
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GFRI is organising its first “Financial Networks” conference in June

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: January 27, 2011
The Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI) is organising its first “Financial Networks” research conference on 10 June 2011 in Geneva. Their intention is to make it an annual event. The program is impressive with papers covering trading networks, networks of capital flows and network analysis on systemic risk and contagion. Registrations should take [...]
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Proceedings from Operationalizing Systemic Risk Monitoring -conference

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: October 26, 2010
The IMF organized a three-day conference in Washington, D.C. on Operationalizing Systemic Risk Monitoring during May 26–28, 2010.  The conference brought together government officials, academics, and private sector participants to discuss (i) Operational Frameworks for the Identification of Systemically Important Financial Institutions, Markets, and Instruments (SIMIs) (day 1); (ii) Measuring and Monitoring Leverage, Liquidity, and [...]
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Workshop on “Frameworks for Systemic Risk Monitoring”

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: June 9, 2010
Committee to Establish a National Institute of Finance (CE-NIF), the Center for Financial Policy at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and the Pew Financial Reform Project are organizing a workshop on “Frameworks for Systemic Risk Monitoring.” It will be held in Washington DC on June 21-22, 2010. The conference brings [...]
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Conferences on financial networks in May

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: May 10, 2010
Risk Europe 2010 (Frankfurt, 25-28 May) will have a seminar on “Using financial network models for counterparty risk analysis: from micro to macro” by Olli Castren (European Central Bank) and a session on “Using network theory to assess systemic risk” presented by me. Risk Europe is the Risk Magazines annual flagship event and carries this [...]
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ECB promotes research on emerging front: “Too networked to fail”

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: January 18, 2010
The ECB conference “Recent advances in modelling systemic risk using network analysis” was featured today in Securities Operations Week – a weekly publication focused on US and global securities operations, technology and compliance: “The financial crisis that began to emerge in 2007 and that gained steam in 2008 famously gave rise to the oft-cited slogan “too [...]
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Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: December 18, 2009
MITACS is organizing a Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment, taking place in Toronto from May 19 to May 21, 2010. The workshop is part of the MITACS International Focus Period on Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications and will be attended by 30-50 specialists in the field (from academia and business) as [...]
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SNA conferences for 2010

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: November 11, 2009
A few conference announcements from INSNA mailing list: NetSciCom 2010, Second IEEE International Workshop on Network Science For Communication Networks, March 19, 2010 – San Diego, CA, USA 6th UK Social Networks Conference to take place at University of Manchester from 12th to 16th of April 2010. Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment, May 19.21, 2010 in Toronto [...]
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ECB workshop on “Recent advances in modelling systemic risk using network analysis”

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: October 9, 2009
European Central Bank (ECB) organized a workshop with the above title last Monday, 5th of October. It was the first event of this scale gathering researchers applying network theory and network analysis on banking, financial stability and systemic risk topics. The introductory remarks to the workshop were given by Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Member of the ECB’s [...]
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