What PhD is best for looking for a quant job?

[IntoDarkness]

My team lost their playoff hope last night. I was pissed and very disappointed. I feel I'm carrying that mood into work today. Should I consider this passionate?

 

[Daniel Duffy]

My team lost their playoff hope last night. I was pissed and very disappointed. I feel I'm carrying that mood into work today. Should I consider this passionate?

You'll get over it.

 

[Theonetwothree]

Carol Alexander made the transition from algebraic number theory to quant finance (I think she runs the quant finance program at U of Reading). And I have known a geometric topologist who also became a quant -- so it can be done.

There are applications for finance using topological methods (Fibrations) - see David Carfi. We're exploring the method... quite like the Libor Model approach to interest rates.