The financial markets continue to amaze with an abundance of innovative products, demanding ever more complex models and computational methods. A vivid science has arisen from the Nobel Prize winning Theory of Option Pricing. Different scientific disciplines from economics, mathematics and physics come together to push existing boundaries and produce new insights.

Science and finance are in motion – so are you. There are no recipes for solutions – neither are there for the way you work. At d-fine, there is plenty of scope for fresh thinking and innovative ideas. Scope for agile minds which look, think and go beyond the constraints of conventional thinking.

Continuing the great success of last year's workshop, d-fine once again invited high potentials to Oxford on 16th until 18th June 2008 to join in for three days on financial mathematics, with talks and case studies presented by our consultants, together with contributions by distinguished speakers from Oxford University. The event was held in one of the famous medieval colleges in Oxford whereas accommodation was gladly arranged at the former prison of Oxford Castle...

Of course, attendance was limited to the very best. So students who have finished (or were just finishing) their MSc, PhD or a similar degree were most welcome.