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!

Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Location |
Mar 11, 2020 | ML for Stock Selection Aggregate Alpha in the Hedge Fund Industry | Keywan Rasekhschaffe Andrew Papanicolaou | QuantBot NYU | Fraunces Tavern |
April 01, 2020 | Book Launch: Leveraged Trading, Kelly Betting and Out-of-Sample Testing Constructing Equity Portfolios from SEC 13f Data | Rob Carver Alexander Fleiss | Systematic Money Rebellion Research | Fraunces Tavern |
Jun 02, 2020 | ML vs Traditional Factor Investing Ensemble Learners, RORO Regimes & the 2020 Factor Landscape | Tony Guida Milind Sharma | RAM AI QMIT | Online |
Jul 07, 2020 | Financial Markets and News about the Coronavirus Book Launch: Machine Learning in Finance | Harry Mamaysky Igor Halperin Matthew Dixon | Columbia Fidelity AI Illinois Tech | Online |
Aug 11, 2020 | Book Launch: Advanced Positioning, Flow, and Sentiment Analysis in Commodity Markets Volatility-Managed Portfolio: Does It Really Work? | Mark Keenan Fang Liu | ECTP Cornell | Online |
Sep 08, 2020 | Book Launch: Machine Learning for Asset Managers Leveraged Trading, Kelly Betting and Out-of-Sample Testing | Marcos Lopez de Prado Rob Carver | TPT | Online |
Oct 06, 2020 | Diffusion Limit of a Limit-Order Book Model | Steven Shreve | CMU | Online |
Nov 10, 2020 | Book Launch: Fun Q – A Functional Introduction to Machine Learning in Q | Nick Psaris | BAML | Online |
Dec 08, 2020 | Introduction to NLP | Saeed Amen | Cuemacro | Online |
Jan 28, 2021 | A Stylized History of Quantitative Finance | Emanuel Derman | Columbia | Online |
Feb 24, 2021 | Mixed Local Volatility Model for FX Derivatives Flow Business | Uwe Wystup | MathFinance AG | Online |
Mar 23, 2021 | Risk under Uncertainty & Price Movement | Anish R. Shah | Brown University | Online |
Apr 27, 2021 | How the pandemic taught us to turn Smart Beta into Real Alpha | Dan diBartolomeo | Northfield | Online |
May 25, 2021 | Deep Learning for Asset Pricing | Stefan Jansen | Applied AI | Online |