UPCOMING EVENTS*
*RSVPs usually max out for events very quickly – MEMBERS WILL BE GIVEN PREFERENCE. We urge you to sign up as a member & avail the deep discount on monthly meetings so that we can continue qwaffing a few together!
schedule FOR 2026
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Location |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Equity update & Fireside Chat | Arun Jain Judith Gu | JP Morgan Scotia Bank | TBD |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Reinforcement Learning for Trading & Investment Management | Petter Kolm | New York University | TBD |
| TBD | The Most Beautiful Equation | David Shimko | New York University | TBD |
| TBD | Equity Strategist Panel | Judith Gu | – | TBD |
Schedule for 2024/2025
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Location |
| January 16, 2024 | Mind Meets Machine: AI in Finance, Business, Privacy | Ali Hirsa, Stavros Zervoudakis, Ash Kalb & Amna Rana | Columbia University, Mutual of America and More | Penn Club |
| March 04, 2024 | Book Signing: Machine Learning and Data Science for Financial Markets: A Guide to Contemporary Practices + Market Microstructure in the Big-data Era: Improving High-frequency Price Prediction via Machine Learning | Agostino Capponi | Columbia University | CMU NYC |
| April 22, 2024 | Regime-Aware Portfolio Models for Asset Allocation: A Multi-Step Approach | John Mulvey | Princeton University | CMU NYC |
| June 20, 2024 | Total Positivity Properties of Option Prices: Theory and Trading Opportunities | Paul Glasserman | Columbia University | CMU NYC |
| Aug 21, 2024 | Quaffing a few with Mark Carhart | Mark Carhart | Kepos Capital | CMU NYC |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Drawdown Betas and Portfolio Optimization | Stanislav Uryasev Pawel Polak | Stony Brook University | TBD |
| Dec 08, 2024 | Holiday Party – Joint Event with Cantab NYC [Cambridge in New York] | – | Cantab NYC | The Churchill Tavern, NYC |
| Dec 19, 2024 | 2024 AFLSE NY Holiday Party | – | London School of Economics (LSE) | TBD – Members Only |
| March 24, 2025 | Graph Machine Learning for Asset Pricing: Traversing the Supply Chain and Factor Zoo | Agostino Capponi | Columbia University | TBD |
| May 05, 2025 | Identifying Patterns in Financial Markets: Extending the Statistical Jump Model for Regime Identification | Petter Kolm | New York University | TBD |
| June 09, 2025 | Using equity options to help achieve more targeted portfolio outcomes | Lorne Johnson | PGIM | TBD |
| July 14, 2025 | SeLFIES and GRAPM | Arun Muralidhar | Georgetown University | TBD |
| Sep 08, 2025 | A gentle intro to Quantum Algorithm Theory | Vojtěch Havlíček | IBM | TBD |
| Oct 02, 2025 | Moving towards an end-to-end framework for regime-aware portfolio models | John Mulvey | Princeton University | TBD |
| Dec 08, 2025 | Networking Holiday Party | – | – | TBD |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Equity update & Fireside Chat | Arun Jain Judith Gu | JP Morgan Scotia Bank | TBD |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Reinforcement Learning for Trading & Investment Management | Petter Kolm | New York University | TBD |