We'd just like to make a correction to our previous email; the Bloomberg Tech Talk will be taking place on THURSDAY, not Wednesday as previously advertised. We'd also like to remind you about our other events this week:
Bank of America Merril Lynch Talk - AngularJS
Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Wednesday (3rd week)
Our first talk of the week will be from BAML, covering a variety of topics: AngularJS + Bootstrap, Why Angular? Why Bootstrap?, Simple Bootstrap webpage, AngularJS Modules (Controllers, Services and Factories), AngularJS Routing, AngularJS Views (Directives), AngularJS Best Practices. There are a dew recommended pre-requisites for the talk, although anyone is welcome to come along: JS (scopes, prototype objects), HTML5 (basics and the syntax), CSS (basics and the syntax), Some understanding on how web works
Aswift Video Games Career Talk (with Microsoft)
Lecture Theatre A - 7:00pm Thursday (3rd week)
This talk will be aimed at Undergraduates and post graduates. For final years we have lots of information about careers and roles in the industry. For
other years we have information about placements including competitions to win placements and other opportunities. All years will benefit from advice about CVs and portfolios. The talk will be for all relevant courses including, but not limited to: Games programming,
Computer Science, Physics, Maths, Graphic Design, Game design, Art etc. Students looking to get into other areas of games are also welcome to attend!
In terms of what the talk covers:-
• Career advice
• Information of how to maximise your chances of securing your first industry role.
• Games Industry Graduate Survey results
• CV, Portfolio and Demo Advice
• Interview Techniques
• Programming knowledge required by studios
• How to increase employability
• Q and A session
Microsoft will have a representative at each talk also talking about the imagine cup, Microsoft opportunities and other competitions they run.
In terms of what the talk covers:-
• Career advice
• Information of how to maximise your chances of securing your first industry role.
• Games Industry Graduate Survey results
• CV, Portfolio and Demo Advice
• Interview Techniques
• Programming knowledge required by studios
• How to increase employability
• Q and A session
Microsoft will have a representative at each talk also talking about the imagine cup, Microsoft opportunities and other competitions they run.
From: Cameron Alsop
Sent: 26 October 2015 21:46
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Subject: Week 3 External Events
Sent: 26 October 2015 21:46
To: compsoc-freshers@lists.ox.compsoc.net; compsoc-members@lists.ox.compsoc.net; compsoc-jobs@lists.ox.compsoc.net
Subject: Week 3 External Events
Hello All,
In order to avoid spamming your email with all the events we're informed about, we're going to start doing a weekly digest of all the external events we think you might be interested in. There will be a similar weekly email for job opportunities on the compsoc-jobs
mailing list - go to our website to find out how to sign up.
[C]lick your Screen: Probing the Senses Online - Talk by Dr Andy Woods
Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for
a single event!
Tues 27th Oct, 4:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology
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We are at the cusp of some far-reaching technological advances that will be of tremendous benefit to sensory research. Within a few short years we will be able to test thousands of people from any demographic with 'connected' technology every bit as good as
we use in our labs today — indeed more so. Here, Dr Woods discusses on-web versus in-lab, predicted technological advances and issues with online research.
Dr. Andy Woods received his PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, in Multisensory Psychology and have subsequently
postdoc'd in Bangor (Wales) and later in Manchester (England). He also spent 4 years as a research scientist working for industry in the Netherlands (Unilever R&D). His research remains primarily focused in the field of multisensory psychology. For the past
6 years he has been developing the 'Xperiment' software package, which lets scientists conduct research interchangeably on the internet, on the phone/pad through Xperiment apps, or in the lab.
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Psychology and Neuroscience Applications Society
The junction where psychology and neuroscience research meets action and innovation.
PsyNAppS aims to disseminate information about what you can do with your psychology or neuroscience degree and
research. We are here to tell you everything Freud hasn't. We want to show you how psychology and neuroscience can be applied practically to a variety of industries.
Wednesday at 13.00 in the Wolfson Building. Lecture Theatre A.We will have Jubin Chheda, one of our senior Developers coming down to talk through Derivative Trading Algorithms.We will be providing some food beforehand as well!The details can be found here http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/1460.html
On October 27th, students from 7 of the top UK universities will simultaneously compete in a live coding competition for the UK CodeCon Cup! Winners will be taken to London for the Global CodeCon Competition against the top performers in the United States.Competing universities are Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Bristol and Southampton. Leaderboards will showcase the top performers as the competition progresses, to see a live update on who is taking the win. Food, beers, cool prizes, swag, and bragging rights will be had!Date: Tuesday 27th October 2015Time: 6.30pm-9:30pmLocation: Various On-Campus Locations (see event link for more details)Register for the event or get more information on the schedule and instructions here: https://Bloomberg-uk-codecon.eventbrite.co.ukThere are limited spaces, so please act quickly if you intend to compete! Kind regards,Bloomberg Campus Team