Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

In this talk, we will discuss what entails being a front-office quant at JP Morgan in the Emerging Markets group. We discuss why Emerging Markets is viewed as its own asset class and what there is to model. We also give practical examples of things we look at on a daily basis. This talk aims to be informal and to appeal to a wide audience.

There is a beautiful idea that one can study spaces by studying associated geometric objects. More specifically one can associate to a manifold (that is some space) a symplectic or contact manifold (that is the geometric object). The question is how useful is this idea. We will discuss this idea and related questions for subspaces (that is immersions and embeddings) with a focus on curves in the plane and knots in three space. If time permits we will discuss powerful new tools from contact geometry that allow one use this idea to construct invariants of knots and more generally embeddings and immersions in any space.

There is a long standing asymptotic relationship in several areas of analysis, between polynomials and entire functions of exponential type. Many extremal problems for polynomials of degree n turn into analogous extremal problems for entire functions of exponential type, as the degree n approaches infinity. We discuss some of the old such as Bernstein's constant on approximation of |x|, and recent work on Plancherel-Polya and Nikolskii inequalities.

Have you heard the urban legend that an experienced college recruiter can make an initial decision on whether or not to read your resume in less than six seconds? Would you like to see if your current resume can survive the six-second glance? Would you like to improve your chances of surviving the initial cut? Do you know what happens to your resume once you hand it to the recruiter? Should you have different resumes for online submission and handing to decision makers? How many different resumes should you prepare before you go to the career fair? Does it really take 30 revisions of your resume before it is ready to be submitted? Dr. Matthew Clark has supported college recruiting efforts for a variety of large corporations and is a master at sorting resumes in six seconds or under. Join us for a discussion of how most industry companies handle resumes, what types of follow up activities are worth-while, and, how to improve your chances of having your resume pass the “six second glance”.