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• The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics Schedules Conference on Market Liquidity

  - 2008-10-29

  CHICAGO -- The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, established by the Financial Mathematics Program at the University of Chicago, will hold on Saturday, November 1, 2008, a Conference on Market Liquidity involving presentations by eight noted practitioners and academic researchers. "While obviously a timely topic, our Conference on Market...

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• U. of Chicago Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics Marks Official Launch with Two-Day Conference

  - 2007-10-19

  Academics and Traders to Present 51 Papers on Pricing, Hedging and Risk Management of Credit Sensitive Assets CHICAGO -- The University of Chicago's newly formed Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, an innovative approach to advance understanding of financial markets by bringing together academicians and financial professionals to help translate...

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• University of Chicago Business Conference Features Jack Welch, Others

  - 2005-04-21

  University of Chicago Graduate School of Business:WHAT: 53rd annual Management Conference of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business featuring presentations by more than 50 leading business executives and academics. The conference ...

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• Datebook.(Calendar/Datebook)

  - 2005-04-18

  THIS Week APRIL 18: Chicago Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors presents High-Performing Teams. 8 to 9:30 a.m. University of Chicago, Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive. Fee: $35 members, $45 non-members. (847) 842-1606. APRIL 19: Score presents Financial...

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• To The Point: National Conference Addressing Free Speech During Wartime to be Held At Rutgers-Camden, National Constitution Center

  - 2004-12-27

  CAMDEN, N.J., Dec. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In the midst of renewed debate about the Patriot Act and speculation about President Bush's second term, a national conference examining the effects of war on First Amendment rights and other civil liberties will be held at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia...

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• Calendar update.(Brief Article)(Calendar)

  - 2004-11-05

  FACING THE END. The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring a State of the Science Conference on Improving End-of-Life Care Dec. 6-8 in Bethesda, Md. Presenters include University of Chicago professor Greg Sachs on "Key Factors Affecting Those Dying with Dementia" and King's College London professor...

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• How I Lost My Faith in TV News Ethics.(Brief Article)

  - 2004-06-01

  As a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, I had been done in by so many print and TV reporters who misrepresented what I told them during the fifties, sixties, and seventies that I was refusing to let them interview me anymore. However, I...

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• "A brilliant mind": Margaret Egan and social epistemology

  - 2004-03-22

  ABSTRACT Margaret Egan (1905-59) taught at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago (1946-55) and at the School of Library Science at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (1955-59). With her colleague Jesse Shera, Egan wrote "Foundations of a Theory of Bibliography" for Library Quarterly in 1952;...

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• Datebook.(Calendar)

  - 2003-10-06

  WEEK OF OCT. 6 OCT. 7: Executive Resources Network presents Future of the Midwest. 6 p.m. Midwest Conference Center, 401 W. Lake St., Northlake. Fee: $10. (630) 546-9430. OCT. 7: Lansky Career Consultants presents Resumes That Work. 1 IBM Plaza, 330...

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• Domestic sciences at Bradley Polytechnic Institute and The University of Chicago

  - 2002-10-01

  The University of Chicago and Bradley Polytechnic Institute shared William Rainey Harper as their president during Bradley's early years. The Departments of Domestic Science or Domestic Economy at each school, however, were founded with different philosophies from their respective founders. Nellie Kedzie Jones founded the Department of Domestic Economy at...

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