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SUMMARY:A Q&A Session On Computational Finance
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DESCRIPTION: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.
LOCATION:Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)\, 3514\, 2233 Tech Drive\, Evanston\, IL 60208
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