facilitate research and applications in the area of risk management, financial mathematics, and engineering provide a basis for the collaborative efforts of the multidisciplinary team of UF researchers and industrial partners provide access to the state-of-the-art risk management and financial engineering software, which will improve research capabilities and the teaching process support activities of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program with Concentration in Quantitative Finance involving four departments of the University of Florida: Industrial and Systems Engineering Dept. (Financial Engineering Program), Mathematics Dept. (Financial Mathematics Program), Statistics Dept. (Financial Mathematics Program), and Finance Dept. in the Business School (Financial Engineering Program)