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Fireside Chat with Balyasny Asset Management’s Founder & CEO, Dmitry Balyasny

  We appreciate the presence of all those who joined us for the Fireside Chat featuring Dmitry Balyasny, Founder and CEO of Balyasny Asset Management. The event witnessed a strong turnout and was skillfully facilitated by Petter Kolm, our Program Director. The conversation with Dmitry Balyasny delved into…

Resume Books for Full-Time and Internship Candidates

RESUME BOOKLETS If you are interested in a student, please reach out to them directly using their contact information found in the resume. Resume Booklets are updated monthly and include students currently on the job/ internship market. Full-Time Candidates Internship Candidates *Resume Books were last updated on December…

600+ Students Attend Our National Financial Mathematics Career Fair (October 19, 2018)

Each year – since 18 years back – we co-organize the National Financial Mathematics Career Fair together with the International Association for Quantitative Finance (IAQF). This year’s fair brought over 600 students from across the U.S. and Canada, and many recruiting companies, including Alternative Data Group, Axioma Inc., Amherst Pierpont Securities…

Michael Ang Elected to the Director’s List

I am delighted to announce that the recipient of the Director’s List for spring 2018 is Michael Ang. In the classroom and beyond, he has consistently demonstrated outstanding academic excellence, great program citizenship, and high degree of professionalism. Michael Ang (’18) Michael holds a B.A. in Mathematics from…

We Welcome Our New Students!

We welcome our new full-time, part-time and non-degree students! The photo above is from a third semester full-time student lead panel discussion on careers in the financial industry for our new students. Penghao Chen, Xaio Guan, Michael Ang, Yining Cheng, and Zhaohua Yang (from left to right) share their internship experiences…

New Elective Course for Fall 2018 – “Counterparty Credit: Valuation and Adjustments, Capital, and Funding”

I am very excited to announce the new full-semester elective course “Counterparty Credit: Valuation and Adjustments, Capital, and Funding” (MATH-GA 2805.001) that will be taught by Leif Andersen on Wednesdays 7:10pm-9pm, starting in September 2018. There is high demand in the financial industry for quants equipped with the knowledge of…

Oksana Kitaychik, Kaili Li, and Yucheng Wang Elected to the Program Director’s List

I am delighted to announce that the recipients of the Program Director’s List for fall 2017 are Oksana Kitaychik, Kaili (Kelly) Li, and Yucheng (Joseph) Wang. In the classroom and beyond, they have consistently demonstrated outstanding academic excellence, great program citizenship, and high degree of professionalism. Oksana Kitaychik…

Adjunct Professor Alex Lipton’s Article in the Scientific American

Read the article here.

Our Industry Adviser Leif Andersen Receives Quant of the Year 2018 Award

We are thrilled to announce that Leif Andersen, BAML and Industry Adviser to our program, was one of the three recipients of Risk’s Quant of the Year 2018 award.  Together with Michael Pykhtin (Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC) and Alexander Sokol (CEO of CompatibL), they created a model…

Aaron Brown Interviewed by Bloomberg TV

Aaron Brown, adjunt professor in our program, talks about bitcoin and the debut of bitcoin futures on Bloomberg TV. See the interview here.