Kurt Hornik: QFin Computing Winter Semester 2026
Classes
| Unit | Date | Time | Location | Topic | Materials | Assignments |
| 1 | 2026-10-01 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.2.02
| R Basics | Slides
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| Exercises 1-24
| Due: 2026-10-07 23:59
| Read Chapter 2
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| 2 | 2026-10-06 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.01
| R Data Types | Slides
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| Exercises 25-30, 32-36, 38-47
| Due: 2026-10-14 23:59
| Read IEEE 754-1985
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| 3 | 2026-10-15 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.2.02
| R Data Types | Slides
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| Exercises 48-55, 62-71
| Due: 2026-10-21 23:59
| Read Slides
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| 4 | 2026-10-22 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.2.02
| R Programming | Slides
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| Exercises 73-74, 77-92, 94, 97
| Due: 2026-10-29 23:59
| Read Chapter 4, Lecture notes chapter 3
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| 5 | 2026-10-30 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.2.02
| LaTeX, BibTeX and Sweave | | Exercises 99-105, 109, 112-126
| Due: 2026-11-11 23:59
| Read Chapter 7,
LaTeX docs
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| 6 | 2026-11-12 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.2.02
| Optimization and Root Finding | Slides
| Exercises 129, 132, 136-140, 143, 149-150, 152, 154, 156,
158-159, 163
| Due: 2026-11-18 23:59
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| 7 | 2026-11-19 | 10:00-12:00 | TC.0.04
| Finals | |
| 8 | 2026-11-24 | 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
Eliah-Marcus Pilz <eliah-marcus.pilz@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:
| 1 | Bachtiary, Gradev, Hartai, Isakova, Pemsel, Sak (†) |
| 2 | Guseva, Konovalchuk, Rizzi, Rubanov, Rygzynov, Tzamtzis |
| 3 | Breiter, Ferrer Ortega, Groenum, Pakhomau, Perdacher, Yancheva |
| 4 | Juan, Kubik, Magdziak, Panhauser, Threm, Wang |
| 5 | Kycl, Milosavljevic, Osipenkov, Skupova, Telnova, Tsay |
| 6 | Golakova, Husak, Jordan, Jurikova, Kaplunova, Polz (†) |
| 7 | Borisov, Hollo (†), Maksimova, Regenyi, Srejic (†), Toth |
| 8 | Ellis, Gudi, Lutz, Meshkovski, Takacs, Zheng |
| 9 | Eisenmagen, Manea, Prodan, Teplov, Vaklinov, Wisniewska |
| 10 | Babic (†), Hasanzade, Krykunova, Luksch, Naginailov, Pinotti |
| 11 | Braghis, Dimitrov, Goss, Kumar, Merkushev, Schoefbeck |
| 12 | Adamian, Floor, Kapustin, Melnychuk, Przyszlakiewicz, Yarovoy |
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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