New Quantnet members say hi

[atreides]

maybe the individual doesn't want to be straddled with tons of debt by the time they graduate, if they're not paying out of pocket

I think it would be a bad idea to switch schools solely for the tuition. Columbia has an excellent reputation and it will undoubtedly look better when you apply for a job and to graduate school. Do not worry about tuition cost!

 

[AlanE]

Nice site

financial engineer from London, came across the site and really liked it. Will have a look around but looks all good so far.
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[Erik Skyba]

Hello

Hi everyone, quant developer/fund incubator with a mid sized hedge fund.

Eager to learn, happy to be here.

EDS

 

[mrmelchi]

Introduce me
Hi everyone!

I am Mario Melchiori from Argentina, accountant, Adscript Professor of Finances en Universidad Nacional del Litoral and Financial Manager en BICA CEML.

I have wrote thee paper and built several excel files. The files and papers were meant to be a simplified version of the models to explain how they works. Papers are the following and freely available in http://www.ssrn.com and Mario Melchiori

Which Archimedean Copula is the Right One? [September 2003
CreditRisk+ by Fast Fourier Transform [July 2004]
Tools for Sampling Multivariate Archimedean Copulas [April 2006] .

I was reviewer of the Glyn Holton' s book Theory and Practice: Value-at-Risk.

Currently, I am wrinting a paper about Giese Model by FFT that enhancement CreditRisk+ permiting correlated sector.

Kind Regards.

 

[pecx]

Hello everybody I'm an jr. analyst. I work for Power trading shop in Houston developing trading model and automate trading.

 

[tablas]

Hi everyone

I am chemical engineer from the Autonomus University of Mexico and I am interested in optimization and process system engineer. I'm to an Excel specialist.

I hope this forum helps everyone to arise our knowledge.

 

[psumant]

Hi!

Hi everyone,

This is Prasad, a Ph.D. student from UIUC, Illinois. I am interested in learning more about Quantitative Finance and came across this community.

Prasad

 

[oscar]

Hey,

Hi.

Writing from Finland and hope to get some answers to my questions from here. Just graduating MPhil in Economics and planning to pursue a career in finance or in academics in the US.

Cheers,
oscar

 

[knocks]

Systematic trader at small NYC hedge fund, mostly equities. Pursuing numerous other opportunities at the moment. Looking to collaborate, network, and otherwise meet new and interesting people!

 

[alankurt]

Hello from chicago

Found the website while looking into "other opportunities". Nice to have one place to go to get all your questions answered!:smt024

 

[rem]

Hi everyone, my name is Alex. I am finishing my freshman year at University of Toronto, studying a specialist in Mathematical Applications in Economics and Finance. My major strength is Math, but I am very interested in Finance as well.
I am just starting to learn about Quant careers and the field of Financial Math, and I think this a very good forum with a lot of useful information and a lot of great people!

Cheers,
Alex

 

[Chunming Zhu]

Chinese?

I guess you are a chinese. I'm also form China, and I wish we could make more communication here.

Hello everyone in forum!

I am Jin Wang from Graduate Center. I decided to take some quantititive courses in math in Baruch to sharpen my mathematical mind in some way. Although my major is Economics I am highly interested in pricing in derivative securities. Since Prof. Neftci left last year, I have to seek study opportunities outside of GC. Fortunately, I could take any course I like in Baruch and NYU. It is really a terrific experience to study with you guys, the most enthusiastic and active I ever meet.

Thanks you very one in this forum and my every dear classmate in course Stochastic Process this semester.

Jim

 

[Chunming Zhu]

Hi, You said you are running a new web forum? Just introduce! I hope I could learn more from you.

 

[Antonis]

Hi everyone,

my name is Antonis and i am from Greece. I am studying distance FE at Columbia. I am excited with FE and all topics that i am learning but unfortunately here in Greece there are not opportunities for this kind of job. I would like to had an ooportunity from abroad because FE is the only science i am interesting in. This forum is a step further for my dream!!

 

[jonrusse]

Hello everyone

I just joined today. Let's see some background, I started working at Salomon Brothers in '89 from Bell Labs. Left in the '97 for a fixed income arb hedge fund in Greenwich, CT. That didn't work out so well in the fall of '98. From there I went to Lehman till I was injured with a TBI (traumatic brain injury) a couple of years ago so I missed the CDO/CDS meltdown. I'm currently up in Albany

Anyway I joined 'cause I'm having a problem using quantlib w/VS 2008 and C#. It seems intellisense isn't working and I'm trying to find a resolution here.

If anyone has a quick and dirty answer shoot me an email. For now I'm reviewing the threads to see if it's been discussed.

FWIW I'm building a CTD calculator using quantlib,C# and Reuters 3000

 

[mamta]

Introduction

Hi Everyone,

I'm a new member of this group and would like to say Hi.. to all.
I'm final year Financial Engineering/Stochastic modelling student from London - UK.

Thanks
Mamta

 

[Ludo]

Hi everyone,
My name is Ludovic. I am a french student in a licence (~bachelor) in econometrics & modeling.
I am interested in macroeconomics (modeling, forecast), finance (assetpricing, derivatives...).

Of course, I have some questions... See you in other threads Ludo

 

[Eric JM]

Hello!

I am not sure if I am in the right place to post this, but I figured I would attempt the post -- I apologize in advance if I have posted in the wrong place. Anyway....

My name is Eric and I am an undergraduate at the a top public university in Virginia, majoring in Econ and minoring in Math. I was just searching around Google for computational/quantitative finance and came upon this gem of a site. I have been led to believe that this forum is specific to Baruch students, but I think its a good community to join. This forum seems to be a great symbiotic group of people willing to give unprejudiced information -- and that's great!

Well...I guess I will talk a little about myself and how I became to be interested in FE, or whatever you want to call it. I really love mathematics and I started there, taking calculus and introductory math courses. I did really well in them, which is usually a sure sign that you enjoy what you are doing. However, I could not seem to find a cross between my two favorite subjects: finance and math. Quantitative finance seems to right up my alley, but I am always open to other interests.

Well, I could go on and on, but I won't!

 

[CGiuliano]

Hey everyone,

I'm a Math/Finance undergrad at Baruch who stumbled on quantNet while researching finEng. Some great info on this forum!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Nice to see everyone introduction here and learn their real name.
This thread has morphed into almost 1000 posts monster and an effective ice breaker. Keep it up, everyone!