Preface to the XXII Workshop On Quantitative Finance Book of Abstracts

The preface presents the picture surrounding the conference and the content of the held talks. The first section is dedicated to the history of the series to which the conference belongs, as well as to the aims and to the presentation of the scientific community participating in the series. The second section describes the contents of the 14 talks, organized in one of the possible logical orders based on the pertaining areas. That gives an idea of how broad, diverse and up-to-date is the range of topics covered within the global quantitative finance community. Some contributions consisted of innovative theoretical and methodological aspects, other contributions consisted in the use of methods to discover new theoretical properties or to acquire new insights about financial data. Some organizational characteristics of the conference are also highlighted. The concluding section provides some comments on the new experience of the web conferences, as well as some auspices and ideas for the future organization of the workshop series.