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The Online Academic Advisor

Friday, June 15th 2007
Contents

  1. Informal Referencing
  2. RSS Feeds
  3. MathFinance Event - Introduction in Monte Carlo and C++ in Financial Engineering

1. Informal Referencing



We have now released a new exciting feature for you referred to as Informal Referencing. Informal Referencing means that you can request informal references from people you know and provide them to people you know completely informally. An informal reference is a kind of short recommendation letter that is given to you on your request by a person who supervised, worked with or did research with you. It shows to other users the projects you worked on, what you achieved and people you worked with all at one page called a References Page. All the references you receive and provide can be seen on your personal References Page, which is linked from your Profile Page. A good References Page enables you to enhance your social network based on the projects you worked on, your achievements and people you worked with. The best of all is that you retain full control of your personal References Page: you can hide and unhide from others references that have been given to you, and you can change and delete references that you have given to others any time.

So, How to create a good References Page?

Log on and have a look at your profile. You will find a "References" link in it that brings you to your personal References Page. You will find that the page is being empty, which looks rather unappealing to other users. To start requesting references from people you know, follow "Request a Reference" link. You can request references from people who are not yet on The Online Academic Advisor as well as those who already are.

Remember, the more References you request, the more References you will get and the more people will get in touch with you to connect with you. So, having lots of References on your References Page is a means of raising your profile on The Online Academic Advisor. It is also a good means of having all your References handy on one page ready to be shown to anyone any time.

To learn more about Informal Referencing go to this page or contact us should you need further assistance.

So, Start requesting References now and see how great you References Page will look in a couple of days. It is also a good way to get in touch again with professors and colleagues you used to work with.

Happy Informal Referencing!

2. RSS Feeds


Another great feature we have released is Online Academic Advisor RSS Feeds. An RSS feed allows you to keep track of the changes on The Online Academic Advisor and any other website that supports RSS.

RSS is an abbreviation. However, different people call it differently. Some people say it means "Rich Site Summary", whereas others say it is "Really Simple Syndication". To put it in The Online Academic Advisor context, you may think of it as a "Really Silly Student". We are happy with whichever you choose.

To be able to read our RSS feeds, you need to have an RSS news reader. There are plenty of them out there: paid and free, downloadable and web-based. Have a look at this page where we have provided some information on where to get some RSS news readers.

Once you have got your favourite RSS news reader, the next step is to choose from the variety of RSS Feeds we have prepared for you:

Subscribe to the RSS feed at The Online Academic AdvisorGeneral Community News if you are interested in everything going on in our community

Subscribe to the RSS feed at The Online Academic AdvisorMembers if you would like to keep track of new members in our community

Subscribe to the RSS feed at The Online Academic AdvisorDiscussions if you are interested in following the discussions in our community

Subscribe to the RSS feed at The Online Academic AdvisorScholarships if you would like to keep track of new scholarships advertised on our site

Subscribe to the RSS feed at The Online Academic AdvisorMembers + Discussions for those of you who are interested in new members and discussions on our site

Subscribe to the RSS feed at The Online Academic AdvisorDiscussions + Scholarships for people who want to keep track of discussions and scholarships advertised on our site

Subscribe to the RSS feed at The Online Academic AdvisorMembers + Scholarships if you want to keep track of new community members and scholarships

Just click on one of the RSS feeds above that interest you and copy the link (URL) that will appear in the browser. Then paste the link into your RSS news reader. That's it!

You can subscribe to several Online Academic Advisor feeds in parallel. However, the Subscribe to the RSS feed at The Online Academic AdvisorGeneral Community News covers it all.

So, with the RSS Feeds, it is now easy to keep track of all changes within The Online Academic Advisor Community. Check them out and let us know about the feeds you would like to have but have not found among the above ones.

3. MathFinance Event - Introduction in Monte Carlo and C++ in Financial Engineering


On behalf of our partner MathFinance, we deliver to you the following info about an event. The event will be held in German. Therefore, the announcement below is in German as well.

Einführung in Monte Carlo und C++ im Financial Engineering
Produced by MathFinance AG
Christoph Becker, Andreas Weber und Uwe Wystup

Kursumfang:
5 x 8 Stunden Unterricht inkl. Übung.
2.-6. Juli 2007, täglich 9:00 - 12:15 Uhr und 13:45 - 18:45 Uhr

Inhalt:
  • Kurze Einführung in C (Transfer ihrer Basic/Fortran/Pascal o.ä. - Programmierkenntnisse nach C)
  • Ausführliche Einführung in das objektorientierte Programmieren mit C++
  • Einführung in Templates und die STL
  • Grundlegende Monte Carlo - Prinzipien
  • Weiterführende Monte Carlo - Techniken zur Berechnung von Greeks und zur Varianzreduktion, Diskretisierungsschemata
  • Praktische Aspekte in der Programmierung: Effiziente Implementation, Fehlerbehandlung, numerische Stabilität
  • Konzeption einer Klassenbibliothek am Beispiel eines Programmes zur Optionsbewertung unter Verwendung von Design Patterns
  • Erstellung von DLLs und Add-ins für Microsoft Excel
Adressaten:
Berufseinsteiger im Bereich Financial Engineering, Studenten im Studiengang "Quantitative Finance" o.ä.

Benötigte Vorkenntnisse:
Gute Kenntnisse in einer beliebigen Programmiersprache, z.B. Pascal, Basic, Fortran etc.

Mitzubringen:
Ihr eigenes Notebook mit installiertem C++ Compiler. Denkbar sind Borland C++ Builder oder Microsoft Visual Studio. Im Kursmaterial sind zu den Programmbeispielen Projektdateien für VisualStudio 2005 und Gnu Compiler enthalten. Kostenlos stellt Microsoft derzeit Visual C++ Express zur Verfügung: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express

Teilnehmerzahl:
maximal 20

Kosten:
1545 EUR
495 EUR für Studierende der HfB

Anmeldungen:
nimmt Frau Biemer (m.biemer@frankfurt-school.de, Tel 0049-69-154008-734) entgegen. Ein Anmeldeformular gibt es hier.
Anmeldeschluss: 18. Juni 2007


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The Online Academic Advisor Team


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