Kurt Hornik: QFin Computing Winter Semester 2025
Classes
| Unit | Date | Time | Location | Topic | Materials | Assignments |
| 1 | 2025-10-02 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.01
| R Basics | Slides
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| Exercises 1-24
| Due: 2025-10-08 23:59
| Read Chapter 2
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| 2 | 2025-10-08 | 14:00-17:30 | TC.1.01
| R Data Types | Slides
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| Exercises 25-30, 32-36, 38-47
| Due: 2025-10-15 23:59
| Read IEEE 754-1985
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| 3 | 2025-10-16 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.02
| R Data Types | Slides
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| Exercises 48-55, 62-71
| Due: 2025-10-22 23:59
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| 4 | 2025-10-23 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.02
| R Programming | Slides
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| Exercises 73-74, 77-92, 94, 97
| Due: 2023-11-05 23:59
| Read Chapter 4, Lecture notes chapter 3
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| 5 | 2025-11-06 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.02
| LaTeX, BibTeX and Sweave | | Exercises 99-105, 109, 112-126
| Due: 2025-11-14 23:59
| Read Chapter 7,
LaTeX docs
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| 6 | 2025-11-13 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.02
| Optimization and Root Finding | Slides
| Exercises 129, 132, 136-140, 143, 149-150, 152, 154, 156,
158-159, 163
| Due: 2025-11-21 23:59
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| 7 | 2025-11-20 | 10:00-12:00 | TC.0.01
| Finals | |
| 8 | 2025-11-25 | 09:00-15:00 | Online via teams
| Presentations | |
Assignments
Exercises
When submitting homework assignments by email, please use the subject
‘QFin Computing Unit n Team k’, where n is the number of
the unit and k is the number of your team.
Submit by email to
Polina Atovmyan <polina.atovmyan@s.wu.ac.at>,
Christian Hendrik Weißmeier <christian.hendrik.weissmeier@s.wu.ac.at>
and <Kurt.Hornik@wu.ac.at>,
and cc all team members.
Chapters in assignments refer to the textbook by Braun & Murdoch used
for this course.
Homework and presentation teams and presentation slots:
| 1 | Burigana, Kupeev, Mokliak, Ossani, Pavlova | 12:00-12:20 |
| 2 | Dushin, Kraciuk, Turhan, Uszko, Vasarhelyi | 10:20-10:40 |
| 3 | Borbas, Holzmann, Mirtchev, O'Sullivan, Sorochynska | 09:00-09:20 |
| 4 | Amelina, Capka, Dubini, Rzepka, Szaniszlo | 13:20-13:40 |
| 5 | Bachtiary, El Hariri, Gehring (†), Pell, Woegerer | 13:00-13:20 |
| 6 | Marcius, Ntallas, Pilz, Simic, Zizliauskaite | 11:00-11:20 |
| 7 | Balli, Boross, Machetta, Morozov, Mykhailiuk | 12:20-12:40 |
| 8 | Attanasio, Friedrich, Illes, Kolev, Maraj | 09:40-10:00 |
| 9 | Burlutskaya, Candrak, Docs, Gruenstaeudl, Nenadic | 11:40-12:00 |
| 10 | Baron von Westernhagen, Krieger, Li Jingqi, Radovanovic, Vazsonyi | 09:20-09:40 |
| 11 | De Pasquale, Ellecosta, Li Daniil, Molnar, Vershinin | 10:00-10:20 |
| 12 | Karmazin, Leitner, Malcoci, Reinhold, Vorhauser | 11:20-11:40 |
Students marked
‘†’ have left the program/course.
Lecture Notes
Docs
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Literature
W. John Braun and Duncan J. Murdoch:
A First Course in Statistical Programming with R.
Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781316451090, 2016.
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316451090.
Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl:
The (Not So) Short Introduction to LATEX2e.
Links
Electronic University Calendar (eVVZ)
Setting up R and LATEX
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TTH,
version 4.16.
