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SUMMARY:GSA Capital: Staying Competitive - Joris Peeters\, PhD in Applied 
 Physics
DTSTART:20211011T120500Z
DTEND:20211011T125500Z
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CONTACT:Ben Karniely
DESCRIPTION:Quantitative hedge funds grind through large amounts of data i
 n order to obtain and exploit a small edge in the financial markets. It is
  a crowded space\, though\, and in order to stay alive one constantly need
 s to innovate. In this talk I'll give a whirlwind tour of what this means 
 for GSA as a whole and its technology teams in particular. We are always t
 rying to cover new markets (like crypto)\, new data streams (even Reddit!)
  and new strategies. At the same time we aim to optimise our existing syst
 ems\, e.g. by reducing latency or running large-scale historical simulatio
 ns on AWS\, so we can stay ahead of competitors.\n\nSpeaker:\nJoris comple
 ted his PhD in Applied Physics from Ghent University\, Belgium\, in 2011. 
 He subsequently spent three years in Nuremberg\, Germany\, designing algor
 ithms and software for computational fluid dynamics simulations\, with a f
 ocus on aeroplane wing icing and race car engines. After moving to London\
 , he joined Winton Capital Management in 2014 and subsequently GSA Capital
  in 2017. His time in the wondrous world of finance is mostly spent buildi
 ng technology for trading systems\, data pipelines\, risk calculations and
  historical back-testing. Outside of work he enjoys quantitative sports be
 tting and anything to do with computational neuroscience. He also has a pa
 ssion - but sadly no talent - for playing the trumpet.\n\nAbout GSA:\nGSA 
 Capital is a multi-award winning investment manager that has been deliveri
 ng exceptional results to global investors for over 15 years. With offices
  in London\, New York and Hong Kong\, GSA Capital combines a world-class p
 roprietary platform with innovative thinking to develop and deploy systema
 tic and process-driven investment strategies across all asset classes\, ge
 ographies and timescales.\n\nPlease sign up online at www.gsacapital.com/c
 areers\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://gsacapital.zoom.us/j/84499455391?pwd=
 UjBJT1FBRXZRK2gwU1ZMejlFa05aZz09\n \nMeeting ID: 844 9945 5391\nPasscode: 
 257464\n
LOCATION:Online
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