Date/Time: Monday November 16 at 5pm
Location: Mudd 3514
ABSTRACT:
Shrouded in secrecy, modern financial markets are driven less by traditional finance than by bleeding-edge engineering built to route information around the globe and extract predictive signals from what looks like pure noise. In this interactive Q&A — one of the rare conversations you genuinely cannot have with Claude or its cousins — we’ll peek inside a world where simple questions like “What is a price?” unlock immense technical complexity across physics, low-latency networking, machine learning, and systems architecture.
BIO:
Darko Kirovski earned his PhD in VLSI CAD from UCLA a quarter-century ago. He then spent a decade at Microsoft Research, split between the cryptography and machine learning teams, focusing on systems research. After that came nearly 1/6 of a century as a quant in Jump Trading’s jcs group, one of the world’s premier market makers. Since leaving last April, being benched by a non-compete agreement, he has spent his time looxxmaxxing, running some wild machine learning experiments, and reading the most-awesomest book ever, Terra by Anthony Kowalski.
Cost: free
Wynante R Charles
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