MITACS would like to invite you to participate in the Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment, taking place in Toronto from May 19 to May 21, 2010. The workshop is part of the MITACS International Focus Period on Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications and will be attended by 30-50 participants from academia and business, as well as students. The 3 day event will consist of plenary talks, tutorials and contributed talks.

For details on speakers, tutorial topics and locations please visit our focus period website - www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca - and click on the Finance topic.

We are also accepting abstracts for contributed talks as part of the workshop. Submission details are available on our website.

A volume entitled "Focus Period on Advances in Networking and its Applications: Financial Networks" consisting of selected papers from the workshop will be published by Springer in the series "Mathematics in industry" (http://www.springer.com/series/4650). All papers will be refereed.

This workshop will be preceded by an Industry-Academic Forum being held at the Fields Institute. For more details visit http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/09-10/finance/ for more details.