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


DateTopicSpeakerAffiliationLocation
Jan 13, 2026Equity update & Fireside ChatArun Jain
Judith Gu
JP Morgan
Scotia Bank
TBD
Apr 29, 2026Penn Club – Book Signing: The Quantamental Revolution
[Copy of the Book included]

Moderated by: Prof. Hatzakis
Milind SharmaQMITTBD
June 03, 2026The Great AI Debate (An Oxford Union style debate on the future of humanity featuring thought leaders) +
Book Talk: The Seismic, Supersonic, Tsunami of Dis-intermediation
Mike Noonan
Adam Duncan
Milind Sharma
QMITTBD
July 8, 2026Cantab LSE – Book Signing: The Quantamental RevolutionMilind SharmaQMITTBD
Oct 2026 – TBDReinforcement Learning for Trading & Investment ManagementPetter KolmNew York UniversityTBD
TBDQuantum PrimerNima LeclercMITRETBD
TBDTBDRonnie SadkaBoston CollegeTBD
TBDThe Most Beautiful EquationDavid ShimkoNew York UniversityTBD
TBDEquity Strategist PanelJudith GuTBD

Schedule for 2024/2025


DateTopicSpeakerAffiliationLocation
January 16, 2024Mind Meets Machine: AI in Finance, Business, PrivacyAli Hirsa, Stavros Zervoudakis, Ash Kalb & Amna RanaColumbia University, Mutual of America and MorePenn Club
March 04, 2024Book 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 LearningAgostino CapponiColumbia UniversityCMU
NYC
April 22, 2024Regime-Aware Portfolio Models for Asset Allocation: A Multi-Step ApproachJohn MulveyPrinceton UniversityCMU
NYC
June 20, 2024Total Positivity Properties of Option Prices: Theory and Trading OpportunitiesPaul GlassermanColumbia UniversityCMU
NYC
Aug 21, 2024Quaffing a few with Mark CarhartMark CarhartKepos CapitalCMU NYC
Oct 30, 2024Drawdown Betas and Portfolio OptimizationStanislav Uryasev
Pawel Polak
Stony Brook UniversityTBD
Dec 08, 2024Holiday Party – Joint Event with Cantab NYC [Cambridge in New York]Cantab NYCThe Churchill Tavern, NYC
Dec 19, 20242024 AFLSE NY Holiday PartyLondon School of Economics (LSE)TBD – Members Only
March 24, 2025Graph Machine Learning for Asset Pricing: Traversing the Supply Chain and Factor Zoo Agostino CapponiColumbia UniversityTBD
May 05, 2025Identifying Patterns in Financial Markets: Extending the Statistical Jump Model for Regime IdentificationPetter KolmNew York UniversityTBD
June 09, 2025Using equity options to help achieve more targeted portfolio outcomesLorne JohnsonPGIMTBD
July 14, 2025SeLFIES and GRAPMArun MuralidharGeorgetown UniversityTBD
Sep 08, 2025A gentle intro to Quantum Algorithm TheoryVojtěch HavlíčekIBMTBD
Oct 02, 2025Moving towards an end-to-end framework for regime-aware portfolio modelsJohn MulveyPrinceton UniversityTBD
Dec 08, 2025Networking Holiday PartyTBD