Speaker Series

We host outstanding, accomplished individuals across academia and industry in a series of talks and seminars held throughout the academic year. Academics discuss their research in quant finance, and industry experts share their experiences in real-life automated trading.

Coding Sessions

Our fortnightly Sunday coding sessions introduce mathematical concepts behind algorithmic trading, where you learn basic trading strategies and how to implement them in code.

These are hands-on, in-person sessions so a laptop is required.

Industry-Sponsored Workshops 

Our workshop events with our sponsoring companies and top industry employers enable members to participate in trading simluations, brain teasers, market making games, case studies, and to meet quant traders and recruitment leads.

Fireside Chat Series

To complement our Speaker Series, in November, 2021 we initiated the Fireside Chat Series to highlight the experiences of current students and recent graduates who have completed internships or are working in the quant finance industry. We organise a roundtable during Michaelmas term to coincide with the recruitment season.

Conference

CUATS will host its thid annual quant conference on 1 March 2024 bringing together leading experts in the quant fields of alpha generation, portfolio optimisation, execution, and risk management.  Full bio details of the speakers and the programme and abstracts of talks may be viewed at https://cuats.co.uk/conference

Details of the inaugural and last year's conferences may be viewed at

https://cuats.co.uk/conference2023 

https://cuats.co.uk/conference2022 

Gala

The third annual CUATS Gala will be on 14 June 2024.  This flagship event of the society, held in the Cambridge Union, is a formal event where members of the society are paired with industry sponsors for dinner, providing an exceptional opportunity for networking and career advancement.  Save the date.

The CUATS Gala 2023 may be viewed at https://cuats.co.uk/gala2023 and the CUATS Gala 2022 may be viewed at https://cuats.co.uk/gala2022

Challenge - Coding Competition

This event was desgined to showcase Cambridge University talent in developing the best trading algorithm!  Our second annual coding competition was launched on 5 November, 2023 and concluded on 5 January, 2024 with team presentations on 18 February, 2024.  https://cuats.co.uk/challenge 

Awards includ Amazon gift vouchers!

Insight Days

An initiative launched in November, 2022 to arrange in-person site visits to some of the leading quant firms in London and other cities, providing a real-life glimpse into the life of a quant trader, quant researcher, and quant developer and strengthening the society's connections to its sponsoring companies.   

Fed Day Social

Launched in February, 2023 this is an initiative to live trade around the eight FOMC interest rate announcements that occur per year, explain the rationale behind the executed trades, and further develop our abilities to codify opportunitistic trading strategies. These mini-competitions contrast with the annual CUATS Challenge - Coding Competition which is longer in duration and focuses on lower frequency algorithmic trading strategies.

Brain Teasers

Launched in October 2023, this initiative aims to hold regular practice sessions on a fortnightly basis to review and share different approaches to solving quant firm interview questions with a focus on probability and statistics questions.   

Future As Yet Undefined Activity

See a gap in our current events? Have an idea for a quant finance related activity you want to actualise?  We're always interested in constructive feedback and suggestions to develop new initiatives for the society to better serve its members.   

Farouk Hadeed

President

Farouk is the president of the society

Christos Antonopoulos

Vice President

Christos is a second year enginneering student in Homerton College

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