Petter Kolm gave the NYU Courant Holiday Lecture on December 9 in front of a packed audience. He spoke on “Musings on Math, Magic and the Mind” and shared personal experiences and stories on mathematical magic, sleight of hand, psychic phenomena, and our magical minds.
On October 28, we organized together with the International Association of Quantitative Finance (IAQF) the National Mathematics Career Fair 2016 at NYU’s Kimmel Center. More than 400 math finance and financial engineering student from across the country participated, and got to meet companies including: Axioma Inc. Bank of America Deloitte Fannie Mae…
On October 26, 2016, directors and administrators from more than 20 programs participated at the Program Directors’ Forum organized at NYU Courant in conjunction of the National Financial Mathematics Career Fair 2016 Guest speaker Ivailo Dimov ’09 (Quant Financial Research, Bloomberg LP) talked about Data Science in Quantitative Finance. Ivailo emphasized some of…
Please join us in welcoming three new instructors to the program: Bryan Liang – Computational Methods for Finance Wujiang Lou – Scientific Computing for Finance Sebastien Bossu – Advanced Topics in Equity Derivatives
Starting in the spring of 2017, the program will offer the four new half-semester courses: Advanced Topics in Equity Derivatives Energy Markets and Derivatives Market Microstructure Securitized Products and Structured Finance
The first semester full-time students, who joined the program in September 2016, had an opportunity to practice their interviewing skills during a half-day of mock interviews in October. The mock interviews are part of the program’s career development workshop series that all full-time students participate in after joining.
We are delighted to welcome Leif Andersen as the industry adviser to the program. Many of you know Leif from his courses Interest Rates & FX Models and Regulation & Regulatory Risk Models in our program. In his new role in the program, he will be working with the program leadership on industry…