Telfer professor Jonathan Y. Li is co-organizing the "Industrial-Academic Workshop on Optimization in Finance and Risk Management" the event will be held at the prestigious Fields Institute in Toronto. The event will take place on September 23 & 24, 2013.

The workshop focus is on financial and risk management optimization models that are aimed for practical implementation and use by risk managers and finance practitioners. The goal is to bridge academic research and financial applications of optimization techniques.

For more information or to register, please visit www.optimization-in-finance.ca.