compsoc-freshers October 2021

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Week 3 Newsletter
by Kinga Mastej 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Hey everyone, Popularity of the Board Game Night last week exceeded our expectations (and the number of seats), so we are happy to announce a re-run this Saturday! No worries about the lack of space - we introduced a booking system to make sure you do not appear at the spot in vain. What’s more, Jane Street is hosting a tech talk with quantitative researcher Laurent Mazare, so be sure to register if it is a domain you may be interested in. Read to the end to learn about final year student/recent graduate opportunities provided by our sponsor TPP. See you soon, *- Kinga* ------------------------------ EventsBoard Game Night 16:00, 30 October, Saturday, Week 3, Thirsty Meeples Like board games? Then join us this Saturday at Thirsty Meeples for our in-person Board Game Night! There will be multiple tables reserved for us, so you can choose your favourite among different games and socialise with people with shared interests. Due to a high attendance during last week’s event, we introduced the booking system in order not to exceed the capacity of the venue. It was not possible to have 25 spaces at one time, so there are different types of tickets available. Registration is necessary to participate in the meeting: https://fixr.co/event/245428389 Sponsor NoticesJane Street Tech Talk: OCaml and Python; Getting the Best of Both Worlds Speaker: Laurent Mazare, Quantitative Researcher What is it about? Jane Street works differently. We are a quantitative trading firm active on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people. At Jane Street, we rely on OCaml to build industrial strength systems that handle terabytes of information per day. However in the last few years Python has proven to be a tool of choice for data analysis. In this talk we present how we expose a wide variety of OCaml libraries and services so that they can be accessed from Python giving us the best of both worlds. End users can use Python notebooks and their favorite libraries to manipulate huge datasets, and OCaml is used behind the hood for the heavy lifting. About Laurent: Laurent first joined Jane Street as a developer in 2013, working on various trading systems. After a short stint in the world of AI in 2017, he came back a year later and has since been working as a researcher on the London equities desk. His current projects involve some strategy research and development as well as working on python-ocaml integration. Further details including joining instructions will be sent to participants on Tuesday 2nd November. When is it? When: Wednesday 3rd November 17:30-18:30 BST Where is it?: Virtual How can you join? Register your attendance here by 12pm Tuesday 2nd November: https://forms.gle/AE23NWc6kTH5cwpN8 TPP Career opportunities TPP is a world-leader in Digital Health. From apps enabling patients to manage their own care to comprehensive hospital solutions, TPP delivers technology that connects everyone involved in healthcare delivery. Our aim is to improve access to healthcare data, making sure it is available whenever and wherever it is needed. We want to help people make the best use of that data, to empower clinicians and citizens, and to create the healthcare systems of the future. We have several graduate opportunities available ranging from Analyst to Software Developer with amazing starting salaries of up to £50k. We are also flexible with start dates and don’t stick to a typical graduate intake; whether you’re a recent graduate hoping to start their career now or a final year student looking for a career for after graduation, you can apply now by visiting our website https://tpp-careers.com/roles/ Follow us on Instagram @tpp_careers and like our page TPP Careers on Facebook to keep up to date with our opportunities! ------------------------------ The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook page <https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc/> or visit our website <https://ox.compsoc.net/> for more information about the society. Want to unsubscribe or manage your subscription preferences? Go to http://lists.ox.compsoc.net/mailman/listinfo/.

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Newsletter Week 2
by Kinga Mastej 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Hey everyone, Our social event this week is Board Game Night! Come to the Thirsty Meeples tomorrow at 6pm to chill & enjoy the camaraderie of fellow CompSoc members, not to mention the free pizza involved:) Moreover, on Wednesday 27th October there will be a chance to once and for all assert dominance over our Cambridge peers during the first ever virtual Estimathon. Mind the short deadline and register quickly. Have a fantastic Week 3 and see you soon, *- Kinga and the rest of the committee* ------------------------------ EventsBoard Games Night <https://www.facebook.com/events/551107946183863?ref=newsfeed> 18:00, <abbr title=“23 October”>Saturday, Week 2</abbr>, Thirsty Meeples Like board games? Then join us this Saturday at Thirsty Meeples for our first in-person event of the year! There will be 3 tables reserved for us, so you can choose your favourite from 3 different games and enjoy free pizza with other CompSoc members! If you wish to join, please complete this short registration form and we’ll see you on Saturday! https://forms.gle/tKxzDjqNhoaMYQhN6 ------------------------------ Sponsor NoticesJane Street Oxford vs. Cambridge Estimathon I’m really excited to announce that we are running our first ever Oxford vs. Cambridge Estimathon virtually on Wednesday 27th October! The Estimathon* is a team based contest that combines trivia, game theory, and mathematical thinking. Teams will have 30 minutes to work on a set of 13 estimation problems, the winning team being the one with the best set of estimates. Example questions include: - The number of Boeing 747’s ever built - The number of calories you’d be eating if you had “one of everything” from the Taco Bell menu - The length of the shortest border any country shares with Russia, in miles We will also have time at the end of the Estimathon for networking with Jane Street Traders, Software Engineers, and Recruiters for anyone who would like to learn more about careers at Jane Street. Please see the attached flyer for full information. Summer Internships Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices worldwide. We hire smart, humble people who love to solve problems, build systems, and test theories. We are actively recruiting for our Summer 2022 Internships in Software Engineering, Quantitative Trading and Quantitative Research. If you have never thought about a career in finance, you are in good company—many of us were in the same position before working here. If you have a curious mind, a collaborative nature, and a passion for solving interesting problems, we have a feeling you will fit right in. Will our next great idea come from you? Quantitative Trader Summer Internship 2022: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/position/5421982002/ Software Engineer Summer Internship 2022: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/position/5415986002/ Quantitative Research Summer Intern 2022: https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/position/5441213002/ Our internships are mostly reserved for penultimate year students. If you are a first year student interested in one of our in-house programs, you can register your details here to sign up to our events mailing list: https://forms.gle/Zmr4jRzR2wms48eE7 ------------------------------ The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) aims to organise meetings and events for our members to use and further their computing interests. See all of our upcoming events on our Facebook page <https://facebook.com/oxcompsoc/> or visit our website <https://ox.compsoc.net/> for more information about the society. Want to unsubscribe or manage your subscription preferences? Go to http://lists.ox.compsoc.net/mailman/listinfo/.

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CompSoc Newsletter Week 1
by Kinga Mastej 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Hi CompSoc Members, It is my pleasure to write to you in the name of the newly elected committee: Lize (the President), Pavol (the Treasurer) and me, the society's Secretary. We have a wealth of news to convey in this hopefully short and comprehensible email, so without a further delay, let's get to the point:)) 1/3 *The Geek Night *- We’d like to invite you to our inaugural social! It’s a great opportunity to meet, chat and discuss ideas with other CompSoc members so make yourself a cup of tea and join us on Discord ( https://discord.gg/MQNKmzp <https://discord.gg/MQNKmzp?fbclid=IwAR3YhZCagvAOz07haidlgmPms9HCqcoh0o9zNr1…>) this Saturday! Any pizza bought during the event will be reimbursed by the CompSoc!🍕🍕🍕😋 2/3 *Citadel Virtual Datathon* Hosted by Citadel LLC and Citadel Securities in partnership with Correlation One, the Data Open is inviting students in Europe to virtually compete at Europe Regional Datathon <https://www.citadel.com/careers/the-data-open/apply?apply_to=europe-regiona…> this Fall! The Data Open challenges students from the world's best universities to tackle real-world social challenges in topics such as urban traffic, renewable energy, and education. *Top performing students have the opportunity to win USD$15,000 in cash prizes, exclusive recruiting opportunities with Citadel, and global recognition.* Taking place between November 1st and 8th, teams will have a week to work on their submissions, with the flexibility to showcase their skills *on their own schedule.* Europe Datathon is a regional data science competition, so it will be more exciting than our university-wide events and will bring the best students across Europe together! *Who: *Undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D., and post-doc researchers *When:* November 1-8 (flexible structure, so that teams will be able to work anytime during the week to accommodate their schedules) *Where: *Virtual *Prizes: *USD$15,000 + Exclusive recruiting opportunities with Citadel LLC and Citadel Securities Here's the link to *sign up* <https://www.citadel.com/careers/the-data-open/apply?apply_to=europe-regiona…> ! *Admissions are made on a rolling basis, so I encourage you to apply now! * If you have any questions or want to learn more about the event, contact *mert(a)correlationone.com. <mert(a)correlationone.com>* We look forward to receiving your application. Best, Citadel and Correlation One 3/3* Events with **Bloomberg * Event 1 Bloomberg - Tech Talk A PR to Typescript has been opened by Bloomberg In Partnership with the Computer Science Department @ The University of Oxford Speaker Ashley Claymore, Engineer @ Bloomberg Name of talk A PR has been opened by Bloomberg About the event TypeScript is used extensively at Bloomberg and we actively contribute back to the open source project. This not only improves the experience for Bloomberg engineers, but also for the whole TypeScript community. This talk, which follows one such contribution that adds support for 'ergonomic private field checks', a new JavaScript feature that will be part of the ES2022 standard. We will cover both the open source aspects of the work, as well as compiler design When is it? Date: 19th October 2021 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM How to sign up? Register your interest here <https://tinyurl.com/yg8m4ugz> and joining details will be sent through to you! ________________________________________________________________________ Event 2 Bloomberg Bpuzzled @The University of Oxford What is Bpuzzled? Bpuzzled is a puzzle competition created by Bloomberg engineers, where teams (of up to four) use problem solving, creative thinking, and teamwork to solve challenging and intricate puzzles that are logical in nature, similar to those found in escape rooms. The winning teams from various universities will be invited to the Global Round to compete in the finals! Come to participate in some friendly competition and network with Bloomberg. When is it? Date: 17th November 2021 Time: 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM How can I take part? Register here <https://tinyurl.com/yfy2ol7c>. Joining details will be sent through to you closer to the time. We are looking forward to meeting you all virtually. May the best team win!! ________________________________________________________________________ Event 3 Bloomberg - Tech Talk Software Design Dilemmas: Choices We Make in a System With Over Two Million Hits a Day In Partnership with OxWocs Society Speaker Zineb Slam and Paavini Nanda, Engineers @ Bloomberg Name of talk Software Design Dilemmas: Choices We Make in a System With Over Two Million Hits a Day About the event Design analysis and large-scale development have been identified as two of the five subjects lacking in computer science education. As graduates, we found it challenging to speak up in system design discussions. Today’s remote working environment has made meeting participation even more challenging. In fact, 45% of women leaders say it is difficult for women to speak up in virtual meetings. Get a head start in your career by learning tips about dealing with dilemmas when designing large-scale systems. When is it? Date: 1st November 2021 Time: 4:00 PM How to sign up? Register your interest here <https://tinyurl.com/yhh9uo6b> and joining details will be sent through to you! Cheers, Kinga Secretary of CompSoc

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Fwd: [Request to forward] Google Students Virtual Series: Build for everyone
by Kinga Mastej 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Hi, Ever wanted to hear how we ensure Google’s products are accessible for our users? Or maybe you’d love some tips on how to nail your next interview? Every student in EMEA will have the opportunity to join our virtual event series, and prepare for a career in tech. No matter what you study, join us – we know you’re going to love it! Please sign up at https://goo.gle/38IHB4G If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know! Regards, Georgina Google University Programs Hi there, We’d love to invite you to the Google Students Virtual Series, specially curated for students in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East & Africa). Full details of the seven-part series are below. Get ready to learn about the products we’re developing at Google, student opportunities, how to submit a great application and much more. *Please sign up here.* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1xQKPXOERG3ehprRIeIpf_L2q0a89OW3…> to take part, including a CV if you’d like to be entered into our Google swag prize draw… we hope you’re as excited as we are! ------------------------------ Google Students Virtual Series: Build for everyone Welcome event – inclusion at Google 30 September 2021, 6 p.m. CEST / GMT+2 We’ll chat to Pedro Pina, VP, Head of YouTube EMEA and advocate for Pride@Google, about his fascinating career, the importance of diversity and inclusion at Google, and some initiatives he is currently working on. You’ll also get a sneak peek of what to expect from the rest of the series. CV workshop and myth busting 4 October 2021, 5 p.m. CEST / GMT+2 (session for non-tech students) 5 October 2021, 5 p.m. CEST / GMT+2 (session forvtech students) What are our recruiters really looking for when they screen your CV? Join this session to hear from Google recruiters about what they love to see, formatting tips, and busting common myths along the way! How to… prepare for a General Cognitive Ability interview 13 October 2021, 6 p.m. CEST / GMT+2 Learn how to crack our GCA interview, an aspect of Google’s non-technical hiring process. We will share details about how to solve these hypothetical or situational questions, and walk through a sample Google interview question. How to… crack the coding interview 14 October 2021, 6 p.m. CEST / GMT+2 [NOTE: This session was recorded in 2020, but will be followed by live Q&A] You’ve landed a technical interview – what now? Two experienced interviewers will take you through their top tips and common pitfalls, before demoing a real Google interview question. Lightning tech talks: product inclusion 2 November 2021, 6 p.m. CET / GMT+1 Join Googlers from various software engineering teams to learn more about how they’ve solved problems and made products or features more inclusive in their day-to-day roles. Introduction to Google sales teams 3 November 2021, 6 p.m. CET / GMT+1 Join Googlers from EMEA Google Customer Solutions (GCS) team to learn more about their day to day jobs and how they help advertisers grow their businesses through Google Ads. REGISTER HERE <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1xQKPXOERG3ehprRIeIpf_L2q0a89OW3…> ------------------------------ If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to studentsemea(a)google.com. We hope to see you there! Many thanks, Google University Programs team © 2021 Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland Visit careers.google.com for all career opportunities and programs. If you wish to no longer receive these emails, click here to unsubscribe <https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdv4qAsVgXiEc7t4JhViy…> . <https://twitter.com/googlestudents> <https://www.instagram.com/googlestudents/> <http://facebook.com/googlestudents> <http://www.youtube.com/googlestudents> <https://students.googleblog.com/>

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Fwd: Jane Street Tech Talks - Autumn 2021
by Lize Alberts 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Apologies for the late notice, please see below for upcoming events from one of our sponsors. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Beth Gorman <bgorman(a)janestreet.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 16:29 Subject: Jane Street Tech Talks - Autumn 2021 To: Hi There I'm pleased to confirm we have the following virtual talks scheduled in the coming weeks. Could I please ask you to forward this invite to members of your society? Thanks in advance! Beth [image: logo] <https://www.janestreet.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=…> Jane Street's Upcoming Tech Talks You are invited to attend the following talks: Tuesday, October 12th 2021 17:00-18:00 BST / 18:00-19:00 CEST *Title: Feedback Directed Optimization for OCaml* *Speaker: Greta Yorsh* Overview: OCamlFDO is a tool that uses information about frequently-executed program parts to guide compile-time optimization decisions. Code layout optimization is a classic example of why this information is useful, how hardware and compilers interact, and how (not to) measure performance. In this talk, we will explore the design of OCamlFDO and how it was influenced by practical needs to fit in with different built systems, developers' workflows, and the open-source compiler itself. Speaker Bio: Greta Yorsh works on OCaml compiler here at Jane Street, having previously worked on GCC compiler at ARM. She is passionate about low-level optimizations that present the combined challenges of ensuring correctness and achieving the best possible performance on modern hardware. She studied Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and has been involved in several academic and industrial research projects in the areas of software verification, program synthesis, and superoptimization. Thursday, October 14th 2021 17:00-18:00 BST / 18:00-19:00 CEST *Title: Algorithmic challenges in build systems and incremental computation* *Speaker: Andrey Mokhov* Overview: Build systems are used by every software developer on the planet, but they are far from being a solved problem. For years the venerable Make dominated, but more recently the challenges of scale have driven large software firms to develop their own build systems, such as Google's Bazel or Facebook's Buck. Jane Street is not as large, but we are not in exception; in fact, we developed not one, but two build systems! In this talk, you'll learn about the build system called Dune and about the incremental computation library that powers it. As an example of a tricky algorithmic problem that we recently needed to solve, we'll look at concurrent cycle detection in build graphs comprising millions of nodes. Speaker bio: Andrey Mokhov works in Jane Street's build systems team, trying to keep our build times under control despite the rapidly growing population of software developers. Before joining Jane Street, he was an academic researcher at Newcastle University (UK), working on asynchronous circuits, functional programming, and build systems. Please RSVP to either, or both of these talks using the link below by Sunday 10th October at 23:59 BST. Final information including dial in details will be sent on Monday 11th October. Jane Street is currently actively recruiting for our 2022 Summer Internship in Software Engineering. To find out more and apply. Click here <https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/position/5415986002/>. For any questions please contact Beth Gorman (bgorman(a)janestreet.com) RSVP <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdX9Rv1pTwNn3qkRIEL68HtXBocDTHgg1z…>

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