Past Events

Please join the next in the CSAIL Forum series, hosted by CSAIL Director, Professor Daniela Rus.

This week features Joshua Tenenbaum, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science. His research seeks to understand the most elusive aspect of human intelligence: our ability to learn so much about the world, so rapidly and flexibly. Tenenbaum and his students like to ask, "How do we humans get so much from so little?" How do we acquire our commonsense understanding of the world given what is clearly by today's engineering standards so little data, so little time, and so little energy?

Buy-Side Equity Quant Analysis: Tools and Open Problems, featuring BAM

The distance between a finance academic and a finance practitioner is quite large, especially if the practitioner works for a prop trading firm or a hedge fund. In this talk I will talk about some of the tools of the trade in use by buy-side firms, some of the open problems they face. Time permitting, I will briefly discuss modeling crowding phenomena, backtesting protocols, challenges to factor models and spiked covariance matrices, aggregation and attribution of large signal sets, and portfolios from ranks.

This event is hosted by MIT CSAIL Alliances and Citadel. 

This event is currently at capacity. Please contact Phil Arsenault, Client Relations Manager at pmarsena@csail.mit.edu

Our members, Underscore VC, are holding an ADDITIONAL info session just for CSAIL to talk about their Summer Fellows Program. If you didn’t read the email from the other day, I’ll highlight some key points about this program: