Newsletter of the Bachelier Finance Society

Volume 18, Number 2, April 2026

13th BFS WORLD CONGRESS, BOLOGNA, 29 JUNE-3 JULY 2026

Deadline for Early Bird Registration is 30 April 2026.

All the details can be found on the website.

IN MEMORIAM

Dieter Sondermann (1937-2026)

With great sadness we have to share the news that Prof. Dr. Dieter Sondermann has passed away.

He was a founding member of the Bachelier Finance Society in 1996 and founding Editor-in-Chief of Finance&Stochastics from 1996 to 2003.
Obituary

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Editor Applications/Nominations for “Applied Mathematical Finance”

Details to be found in the post.

JOB POSTINGS

The aim of these postings is to create a forum for the dissemination of information on academic and industrial positions related to mathematical finance, across different disciplines and different geographical regions. Please submit any job advertisements you are aware of to jobads@bachelierfinance.org, preferably in plain text and sending the link to the website containing all the information. Updates and new items appear continuously at: bachelierfinance.org/forum/jobs

Professor positions
ETH Zurich
Deadline: May 31, 2026

BOOKS & JOURNALS

The Society maintains a list of books, book reviews and journals at: bachelierfinance.org/publications. Members who would like to have their books added to the website, should please let us know.

UPCOMING JOINT SIAM-BFS MATHEMATICAL FINANCE ONLINE SEMINAR

This list contains the next upcoming online seminars. A full list is available at https://www.bachelierfinance.org/joint-siam-bfs-mathematical-finance-online-seminar. Registration is free but compulsory.

Date: Thursday, 9 April 2026
Speaker: Yufei Zhang (Imperial College London)
Title: An alpha-potential game framework for dynamic N-player games

Date: Thursday, 14 Mai 2026
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

This list contains conferences related to mathematical finance that take place in the next six months. A full list is available at bachelierfinance.org/conferences. Please let us know of conferences we are not aware of and include a URL for the event.

WEBINARS

This list contains webinars related to mathematical finance. A full list is available at bachelierfinance.org/webinars.

The website researchseminars offers a comprehensive list of online seminars on a variety of topics that might be of interest to you: https://researchseminars.org/