Course Description
The Investment Banks are increasingly interested in hiring research
students from science and engineering for analytical roles, for
econometrics, for quantitative analysis and for technology sectors.
This is mirrored by research students seeking challenging and well-paid
careers in the financial services industry.
Following the very
successful PhD workshop in 2007, which attracted 300 attendees, UCL is
again organising a workshop to bring together experts from the
financial services industry to present their work and to discuss
opportunities for PhDs.
Speakers from major investment banks
will include: Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, HSBC,
BarclaysCapital and Royal Bank of Scotland, as well as leading
investment funds.
Among the Topics covered are: The structure of
the Financial Services Industry, Algorithmic Trading, Analytics &
Risk, Empirics: Econometrics, Stats, Signals & AI, Derivative
Product Modelling, Quant Trading, Algorithms and Financial IT.Wednesday 18 June, 2.00-6.00pm
Topics and Speakers
1.50-2.00 Welcome UCL (Philip Treleaven)
2.00-2.20 Career Opportunities in the Capital Markets Merrill Lynch (Marc Lagadec)
2.20-2.40 Algorithmic Trading Deutsche Bank (Giuseppe Nuti)
2.40-3.00 Architectural Challenges in Electronic Trading Goldman Sachs (Jon Butler, Tom Wait
3.00-3.20 Research Realities BarclaysCapital (Eamonn Long)
3.20-3.40 Derivative Product Modelling HSBC (Piotr Karasinski)
3.40-4.00 Tea
4.00-4.20 What PhDs do at Citigroup Citigroup (Alex Jackson)
4.20-4.40 Why RBS need you RBS (Stephen Norman)
4.40-5.00 Life in Financial Services for the
Mathematically Minded
Aspect Capital (James Walker)
5.00-5.20 Credit Suisse One Bank project Credit Suisse (Mackie Fung)
5.20-5.40 Computational Finance in Investment Funds Orbis FM (Francis Chiu)
5.40-5.50 The Careers Group University of London
Networking Opportunity
UCL Careers (Karen Barnard)
