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

Events

Board 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 Notices

Jane 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?

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/

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