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CALL FOR PAPERS

Every two years, the World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society brings together academics and practitioners in the Mathematical and Quantitative Finance community to exchange ideas on the state-of-the-art, discuss the latest trends in the field, and find new collaborations and employment opportunities.
The 13th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society will take place in Bologna, 29 June to 3 July 2026.
We hope to welcome many of you there.

Louis Bachelier Lecture

Nicole El Karoui, (Sorbonne Université).

Plenary Speakers

Clémence Alasseur (EDF, Paris), Nan Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Olivier Guéant (Université Paris Cité), Julien Hugonnier (EPFL, Lausanne), Antoine Jacquier (Imperial College, London), Sebastian Jaimungal (University of Toronto), Luitgard Veraart (LSE, London), Ruodu Wang (University of Waterloo), Renyuan Xu (Stanford University, California).

Scientific Committee

Erhan Bayraktar (University of Michigan), Sara Biagini (Luiss), Alvaro Cartea (University of Oxford), Ying Chen (National University of Singapore), Christa Cuchiero (University of Vienna), Min Dai (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jerome Detemple (Boston University), Caroline Hillairet (ENSAE), Ulrich Horst (Humboldt University of Berlin), Mike Ludkovski (University of California, Santa Barbara), Johannes Muhle-Karbe (Imperial College London), Vladimir Piterbarg (NatWest Markets), Silvia Romagnoli (University of Bologna), Yuri Saporito (Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)).

Submissions are open now – deadline 30 January 2026

Submissions are open on the conference website.

Registrations are open now

Registrations are open on the conference website.

Bachelier Finance Society Junior Scholar Award – sponsored by SIG

At SIG, Quantitative Researchers explore the latest concepts in financial mathematics to solve problems found in the markets. Sponsored by SIG, this award will honour the most outstanding contribution by a PhD student or postdoc with EUR 5000 (conditions apply). The award has been created to recognise scholars who share SIG’s passion for cutting-edge research. Click here to read more about the Bachelier Finance Society Junior Scholar Award.

Poster

The poster of the Congress can be found here.