Hey everyone,
Our next social event this term is Social Competitive Programming! We’ll be setting some programming challenges for you to complete, and you’ll be competing against your fellow members to come out on top! We also have a tech talk from CoreFiling this Wednesday titled “Security in the real world: The easiest programming requirement to forget”, see below for more details. This week also marks the return of Learn To Code! Whether you’d like to learn programming or think you could help others learn, it’s a great opportunity! We’ve also got messages from Jane Street and Citadel this week so check them out below.
If you aren’t already on the CompSoc Discord, you can *join it here https://discord.gg/RhvsMSn* to take part in social events and keep in touch with other members.
/- Matthew and the rest of the committee/
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Events
Social Competitive Programming https://www.facebook.com/events/735719110279470
*19:00, Saturday, Week 2, Discord*
Our third social of the term will be a chance for some “competitive” programming. In reality, there is no particular pressure, but there will be a whole bunch of challenges available to complete. Try to complete as many as you can, and help each other out if anyone needs help with some of the challenges.
CoreFiling Tech Talk - Security in the real world https://www.facebook.com/events/324126102283044
*18:30, Wednesday, Week 2, Zoom*
For our first talk of the term, our sponsor Corefiling is hosting a talk on security for software, so come and join us on zoom to learn more about it!
Join here via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/94008834442?pwd=Tk5sbGtZVloralh2NmtUWWdQWGpVQT09&fbclid=IwAR2GOH8LW5mxfDwqUHF_stIeSbibLWbCMvEu6RxZ0pyr-LqoAkNrLwEQRiE#success
Learn To Code https://www.facebook.com/events/447419206269850/
*19:00, Thursday, Week 2, Zoom*
Learn to Code is back! If you want to learn how to write code or refresh your knowledge, this course will teach introductory programming in the Python language with no prior experience necessary. Programming is a useful skill in a range of subjects and having some knowledge of it is a great way to improve your CV. Alternatively, if you’re already a CS student and would like to volunteer to help teach others some introductory Python, please contact the committee (replying to this email is fine) and we’ll get you connected!
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Sponsor Notices
Jane Street
Jane Street invites you to apply to our summer 2021 FPGA engineer internship!
*About the Position*
We’re big believers in the ability of tools to make programming faster, more pleasant, and more reliable. We think the same is true for hardware design, and we’re looking for people with experience in hardware design who are interested in using programming language technology to improve the process of designing, testing and validating hardware designs.
Your intern projects will predominantly involve OCaml & Hardcaml, for both RTL design and testing/integration.
If you’d like to get an idea how we design and test our FPGAs and how the process of designing hardware can be improved by applying lessons from software engineering check out our OCaml All The Way Down talk https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/ocaml-all-the-way-down/ and Programmable Hardware podcast episode https://signalsandthreads.com/programmable-hardware/.
*About You*
The role involves building FPGA applications from concept to a working design. You will:
* Be comfortable with a software programming language. * Have experience with a Hardware Description (or Construction) language (VHDL, Verilog, Chisel, Pymtl or other), for both writing and testing hardware designs. * Have experience working with FPGA vendor tools - Vivado or Quartus. * Have built a working FPGA project through academic, professional, or personal project experience. * An interest in learning how to use using FPGAs in the context of networking.
We don’t expect you to have experience with functional programming, OCaml, or finance; we’re happy to hire talented engineers who are excited to approach hardware design with a software engineering mindset and teach them what they need to know.
Please note that while we’re working remotely right now, we’re hoping to to host our 2021 internships back in the London office if public health conditions allow.
Apply here! https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/apply/4971898002/
Citadel
*Europe Regional Datathon*
About the Event:
Hosted by Citadel LLC and Citadel Securities in partnership with Correlation One, we’re inviting Oxford students to compete virtually at Europe Regional Datathon https://www.citadel.com/careers/the-data-open/apply/?apply_to=europe-regional-datathon-spring-2021 this February!
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. Europe Regional Datathon is an international data science competition, even bigger and more exciting than our university-wide events!
Taking place between February 15 - 22, teams will have a week to work on their submissions, with the flexibility to showcase their skills on their own schedule. Top performing students have the opportunity to win $25,000 in cash prizes, exclusive recruiting opportunities with Citadel, and global recognition.
When: February 15 - 22 Where: Virtual Prizes: $25,000 + 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-regional-datathon-spring-2021
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@correlation-one.com mailto:mert@correlation-one.com.
We look forward to receiving your application.
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