We have two guest speakers this week:
Dr. John Niccolai is Chief Operating Officer of Global Fixed Income at Citadel.John joined Citadel in 2008 as a Quantitative Researcher and was then appointed Head of Quantitative Research for Global Fixed Income from 2011- June 2018. He was subsequently named Head of Portfolio Construction for Global Fixed Income before assuming his current role in May 2019.
Prior to joining Citadel, he was a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase, where he was a member of the bank’s Proprietary Positioning Business. John previously worked as a Quantitative Modeler for interest rates in the Global Modeling and Analytics Group at Credit Suisse.
John received a bachelor’s degree from Caltech and a master’s degree and PhD from Columbia University.
William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Faculty Director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. He is an expert on a diverse range of investments. Professor Goetzmann’s past work includes studies of stock market predictability, hedge funds and survival biases in performance measurement. His current research focuses on alternative investing, factor investing, behavioral finance and the art market.Professor Goetzmann has written and co-authored a number of books, including Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis (Wiley, 2014), The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (Oxford, 2005), The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture and the Crash of 1720 (Yale, 2013) and most recently, Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton, 2016). He teaches portfolio management, alternative investments, real estate and financial history at the Yale School of Management.
Additional finance resources:
We at yale have a license for Mathematica which has a lot of financial data baked in including blockchain:
See Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence John Searle, talk at Google. See 9 minutes in for discussion of cognitive science and Sloan talks at Yale.
See Minds, brains, and programs John R. Searle, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1980).
See Conceptual Dependency and Its Descendants Steven Lytinen, 1992.
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