We are continuing our theme based meeting style.

This week Devon will be presenting an informative session on a Quantitative Finance topic.

Research project: "How Long to Hold Winners and Losers"

Devon will be presenting his project along with an introduction to research and theory thus far.
Background information that may enrich the presentation is below as "Project 1"

http://nyfinancialengineer.wikispaces.com/Projects

A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

Refreshments to be served. ($7 fee veggie and meat options)

Note: This meetup may need to be rescheduled to next Thursday (17th) !!

Please note I am unable to update the website from work so please check your email before 5 pm today for confirmation of whether the meeting is on.

Likely we will continue with brain teasers, discuss the job market and potential speakers to come in.

Refreshments to be served.

sascha

A friend and colleague of mine has offered a new meeting location that will hopefully be a little more stable. It is a conference room at the consulting company we both work for.

It's very important for us to remain an independent group, so he has promised there is no intention of setting a meeting agenda. He and I both wish to attend as members of the group and not as representatives of any other agency unless explicitly invited by the group to do so.
We had a vote on whether to have meetings at this location and the vote was passed. Should there be concerns in the future please let me know about them anytime and we can have another vote.

I feel great about this meeting location as finally we have a place that will have guaranteed seating, sufficient quietness without waitresses pestering us for new orders.

The "Interview Questions" worked very well for us last time so I thought we'd continue along that theme.

Whether you are interviewing or hiring, interview word problems are a common technique used to assess the problem solving ability of potential candidates.

My recommendation is that all attendees pick an interesting and/or common problem used in interviews you have participated in. Print the problem out on 8.5" x 11" paper and make about 10 copies for the group.

We will go through each problem and attempt to answer it collectively and discuss why this problem is/is not a useful gauge for assessing candidate problem solving abilities and what you or an employer would look for in terms of solving "intractable" problems.

Great sources are the Wilmott online forums, "Heard On the Street" by Timothy Crack and of course your experiences interviewing and being interviewed.

Looking forward to seeing you soon,

Location :

370 Seventh Avenue
Suite 422
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 279-1550
Fax: (212) 279-1556
Map
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=370+Seventh+Avenue+,+manhattan,+ny&sll=40.668107,-73.981011&sspn=0.006787,0.014591&ie=UTF8&ll=40.750768,-73.992255&spn=0.006778,0.014591&z=16&iwloc=addr
Suggested Agenda:

1-introductions
introduce yourself and the nature of your background and interest in financial engineering
Let us know also what you would like to get from group meetings and the group in general
2-group discussion on interview questions 45 mins
participants who have brought interview questions will then "chair" the question and/or participate
in the problem solving of an interesting interview question.
3-projects discussion 15 mins
progress on group projects. Discussion of the most useful projects type of projects to be working on.
4-scheduling for recruiter visits 15 mins
We decided every few meetings to invite recruiting firms.

Welcome back to the group's first meeting of 2008 and first meeting for a few months.
Things have settled down quite a bit for me in terms of time I'm able to contribute to organizing, and I'd like to again invite folks to participate in regular group meetings.

I thought it would be a great idea to get the momentum going again if we were to focus on something relevant as well as fun that would encourage group participation and benefit everyone across instruments and markets.

Whether you are interviewing or hiring, interview word problems are a common technique used to assess the problem solving ability of potential candidates.

My recommendation is that all attendees pick an interesting and/or common problem used in interviews you have participated in. Print the problem out on 8.5" x 11" paper and make about 10 copies for the group.

We will go through each problem and attempt to answer it collectively and discuss why this problem is/is not a useful gauge for assessing candidate problem solving abilities and what you or an employer would look for in terms of solving "intractable" problems.

Great sources are the Wilmott online forums, "Heard On the Street" by Timothy Crack and of course your experiences interviewing and being interviewed.

Looking forward to seeing you soon,

Location :

Cafe Fuego
9 St. Mark's Place
NY, NY 10003
212.677.7300
3rd Ave & St. Marks

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cafe+fuego&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=28.887524,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=40.729389,-73.987534&spn=0.006732,0.014591&z=16&iwloc=A&om=1

http://cooperbricolage.pbwiki.com/

Suggested Agenda:

1-introductions
introduce yourself and the nature of your background and interest in financial engineering
Let us know also what you would like to get from group meetings and the group in general
2-group discussion on interview questions 45 mins
participants who have brought interview questions will then "chair" the question and/or participate
in the problem solving of an interesting interview question.
3-projects discussion 15 mins
progress on group projects. Discussion of the most useful projects type of projects to be working on.
4-scheduling for recruiter visits 15 mins
The contracting firm I work for (as a contractor, not recruiter!) :-), is interested in meeting with the group for employment and training opportunities. I'd like to discuss what they have availability and gauge interest for a potential visit.

Location : (thanks Devon!)

Cafe Fuego
9 St. Mark's Place
NY, NY 10003
212.677.7300
3rd Ave & St. Marks

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cafe+fuego&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=28.887524,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=40.729389,-73.987534&spn=0.006732,0.014591&z=16&iwloc=A&om=1

http://cooperbricolage.pbwiki.com/

Suggested Agenda:

1-introductions 15 mins
2-discussion on other projects to pursue 10 mins
3-career resource discussion 10 mins
4-scheduling for recruiter visits 10 mins