• Nov2022 17 18:00
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    Nov2022 18 21:00

    Distinguished speaker series | Gentle Introduction to MATLAB

    Online

Graduate School invites a certain number of outstanding professors from universities worldwide to give informative lectures and workshops on academic research and career planning. This series aims to provide our PhD students the access to scholars with a high degree of expertise, as well as the opportunity to better understand research methods and achieve productive outcomes.

Workshop Information

A Gentle Introduction to MATLAB

Overview: The workshop aims to equip PhD students with the necessary skills to use MATLAB for data analysis and visualization.

The workshop covers four topics:

  1. MATLAB basics: The GUI of MATLAB, the basic programming logic and syntax in MATLAB. Data types and their corresponding operations.

  2. Programming with scripts: Programming using MATLAB script files. Matrix-based programming using conditional statements and loops.

  3. MATLAB functions: basic about functions; writing MATLAB used-defined functions.

  4. Visualization and plotting: visualizing data with various types of plots.

Day 1: November 17, 2022

Day 2: November 18, 2022

Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Beijing Time)

  • Offline: Portland Building 418

  • Online: Please scan the QR code from the poster above.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Yifan Li joined the Alliance Manchester Business School as a Lecturer in Finance in 2018. His research interest mainly lies in the field of econometric theory and its applications in finance. The themes of his works include the analysis of high-frequency data using alternative sampling schemes and functionals, high-frequency option data, non-parametric moment estimators, market microstructure, the impact of news in the financial market, etc. His publications appear in international journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Financial Markets, etc.