OpenQuant Newsletter - Edition #64
Quant News, Jobs & Internships, Upcoming Events, Puzzles and More!
Hello, fellow Quants!
Welcome to the OpenQuant newsletter - a publication dedicated to democratizing quantitative finance by sharing the latest news, jobs & internships, educational opportunities, and upcoming events in the industry.
Here’s what we have in this week’s edition:
Quant News - catch up on what’s happening around the quant industry.
Quant Jobs - discover the latest internships/jobs to land your next quant role.
Upcoming Events - find community events to meet fellow quants.
Educational Resources - latest research papers & courses to learn quant concepts.
Quant Puzzle - keep your interview skills sharp with a weekly brainteaser.
News Headlines
📰 JP Morgan Unveils New IndexGPT AI Tool | The tool uses keywords to identify an index of companies associated with emerging themes, gleaned from news articles.
📰 Jim Simons Passes Away at 86 | The legendary code breaker, mathematician, investor, and founder of Renaissance Technologies has passed away at age 86.
Our Top Internships
✨ Wintermute Trading - Investment Intern | a firm that develops algorithmic markets for crypto exchanges and trading platforms.
✨ Point72 - Quantitative Researcher Intern | a global asset management firm led by Steven A. Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide.
✨ Tower Research Capital - Quantitative Trader Intern | a trading and technology company that has built a sophisticated electronic trading platform.
Our Top Full-Time Positions
✨ Two Sigma - Quantitative Researcher | a hedge fund that uses AI, machine learning, and distributed computing, for its trading strategies.
✨ Old Mission Capital - Junior Quantitative Researcher | a global, multi-asset market maker specializing in valuing individual securities and derivatives.
✨ Geneva Trading - Quantitative Researcher | a global trading company with best-in-class technology, high-fidelity data, and a proven track record of incubating talent.
✨ FalconX - Quantitative Developer | a pioneering team of operators, investors, and builders committed to revolutionizing institutional access to the crypto markets.
Upcoming Events
📆 7/17 - 7/21 CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | the premier annual computer vision event comprising a conference and workshops.
Educational Resources
🚀 [Quant Researcher] What I Learned from Looking at 900 Most Popular Open-Source AI Tools | An analysis of the open-source ML ecosystem for LLMs.
🚀 [Quant Researcher] Causal Inference: What If | a cohesive presentation of concepts and applications of modern observational causal inference.
🚀 [Quant Developer] A Taste of GPU Compute | a Jane Street Tech Talk presenting GPU compute techniques, used in a new 2D graphics rendering engine.
Weekly Quant Puzzles
Question #1 - Probability
Dan rolls a dice until he gets a 6. Given that he saw only even numbers, what is the expected number of times Dan rolled his die?
Quote of the Week
“I have one guy who has a Ph.D. in finance. We don't hire people from business schools. We don't hire people from Wall Street. We hire people who have done good science.” - Jim Simons