April Newsletter

The CQA Las Vegas conference is next week in the Encore at the Wynn Hotel. The Tuesday night reception will be held at the hotel in the Beethoven Room, beginning at 7:00 pm. The dinner on Wednesday night will be held at El Segundo Sol, which is in the Fashion Show Mall across the street from the Wynn. El Segundo Sol Cocktails begin at 6:00 pm.

We're hoping to bring back the poker tournament next year, but this year we will have a cocktail reception on Thursday night. 

We have confirmed the CQA/SQA Quant Trading Seminar will be held this year at the Blackrock offices in Midtown Manhattan. The date is Thursday, June 8 and will run from 8:00 am until 1:00 pm. See details below.

See you in Vegas!

There will be a presentation on Thursday in Las Vegas by Dan Glickman, Rudi Schadt, and Alex Muniz regarding the criteria for the 2nd annual presentation of the CQA Lifetime Achievement Award. We're asking all members to give some thought to how we should make the selection this year.  The award will be presented at the Chicago conference in September. 

The fifteenth annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R will be held May 19-20 in Chicago, IL, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The conference brings together some of the best people and conversation in quantitative finance – covering R (or Python or Julia!), portfolio construction, statistics, quant ideas and more.

The event is hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago and CQA member Dale Rosenthal. Please email Dale if you have any questions about the event.

Click here for more details.

The Quant Trading Seminar will be held at the Blackrock offices in in New York City on Thursday, June 8th from 8:00 am until 1:00 pm. Usually we have the seminar in the afternoon, but we have moved it to the morning due to venue availability. The speaker list will be available soon.