• Most widely followed finance/economics/math finance journals

  • Smith School's Finance seminar series

  • Seminar series in Macro and other areas at Department of Economics, UMD

  • Maryland Population Centre Seminar

  • Maryland Micro Area PhD Student's Seminar

  • Maryland Agricultural and Resource Economics Seminar Schedule

  • Learning STATA

    • Also look for "A little bit of programming goes a long way" and this link at Princeton.

  • Learning LaTeX

     Some good links to keep in your bookmark are

    • "A not so short intro to Latex",

    • "AMS short intro"

    • "U Penn State site".

    • Also take a look at contextualized Latex manual from the rocket scientists.

  • Learning WRDS using Unix (WRDS has a some nice help as well.)

  • Learning SAS

  • Learning Gauss

  • Economics Lecture notes/book recommendations

  • Resources for company search at University of Maryland library

  • Diversion 1: PhdComics.

  • Diversion 2: Misc

  • Word from the wise for first year Economics students (In my opinion, most of it holds true for finance students as well)
  • Ranking of finance departments
  • How to handle large datasets in Matlab