Del 27 de junio al 1 de julio de 2016 se celebrará en A Coruña la Summer School on Quantitative Methods for Risk Management in Finance and Insurance (SSQM16).

The Summer School on Quantitative Methods for Risk Management in Finance and Insurance (SSQM16) is one of the training activities inside WAKEUPCALL, which is a European Industrial Doctorate (EID) Marie Curie Action, funded by the Horizon2020 EU Programme.

SSQM16 will take place at the Faculty of Informatics at Universidade da Coruña and includes a two days Crash Course on Python Programming, a two days Workshop -with courses delivered by very prestigious members of Academia and Industry-, and one half day of PhD students presentations. SSQM16 is mainly oriented to PhD students, researchers and professionals from insurance and financial sectors who are interested in recent advances on risk management from the practical and quantitative viewpoint.

Wakeupcall EID is driven by the academic beneficiaries, from the Departments of Mathematics of the University A Coruña (Spain), the University of Bologna (Italy), the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and CWI (Netherlands). The industrial partners that joined this EID are Banco Santander (Spain), the insurance company UnipolSai (Italy) and the financial and insurance consulting firms Ernst&Young (Netherlands) and Analistas Financieros Internacionales (AFI, Spain). We team up with engineering risk analysts NIER (Italy) plus the software company VORtech (Netherlands) with expertise in numerical algorithms and parallel computing.