Curious about Machine Learning in Finance? Looking for student opportunities, competitions, and career inspiration? Join us on May 16 for an exclusive event with ETH FinsureTech Hub & ADIA Lab — where tech meets finance. Hear from Marcos Lopez de Prado, the influential voice in both finance and ML, as he shares insights on building a meaningful career in this rapidly evolving field. Last year’s Data Challenge awarded 100K USD in prizes🏆 — and this year promises even more exciting opportunities! Network with peers and professionals, explore real-world use cases, and get a glimpse of what's next in Data Science, Finance, and AI.
May 16, 2025
ETH Main Building E5
For the third year in a row, we are very excited to invite members of the Analytics Club to a private dinner cruise with QuantCo’s team in Zurich! The boat with great food and company is ready to depart, and we look forward to spending a fun evening together. The event will take place on May 15th, starting at around 6 pm – more details will be sent out to the participants shortly in advance. If you are interested in joining us, please submit your resume here by May 7th.
May 15, 2025
TBA
You are warmly invited to an evening with Squarepoint Capital, a global investment management firm, on November 26th at ETH main campus. Discover everything you’ve ever wanted to know about working at Squarepoint and learn how your skills and expertise could contribute to the company’s success. Sign up by filling in the form below and join us, we look forward to seeing you soon!
November 26, 2024
ETH ML E 12
In this talk, Ashley Chen, Quantitative Researcher at Optiver, will provide insights into the innovative mathematical and statistical techniques that are instrumental to the success of this leading global market maker. You‘ll learn more about how Optiver‘s research teams deploy models such as Black-Scholes and stochastic calculus to understand market behavior and provide accurate pricing for thousands of financial products. The interactive presentation will also demonstrate the importance of data-driven optimization techniques in adjusting the models for real-world scenarios in the ever-changing, dynamic markets.
December 2, 2024
ETH Zurich HG 7 D.2
Join us for an insightful workshop where Axpo and AWS's AutoGluon team showcase how AI-driven time series forecasting is transforming power market predictions. Whether you're into AI, energy trading, or just curious, this is your chance to learn from industry experts and connect with like-minded enthusiasts—plus, enjoy some free pizza! 🍕
November 21, 2024
ETH HG E3
Get ready to dive into the world of data analytics and explore potential career paths at UBS! You’ll develop a sophisticated text-matching engine using technologies like NLP, tackling a real-world marketing and sales problem. Your solution could potentially enhance their data processing systems. Plus, you'll have plenty of time to connect with professionals and peers who share your interests.
November 15, 2024
UBS Innovation Forum, Flurstrasse 65, 8048 Zurich
We are excited to invite members of the Analytics Club to a fun and cozy dinner with QuantCo! Throughout the evening, you will have the chance to meet QuantCos from the office in Zurich in an informal setting. There, you can learn more about their daily work in data science, software engineering, and deep learning and their backgrounds and paths to the company.
December 3, 2024
Citadel | Citadel Securities is bringing a Quantitative Challenge for ETH. This challenge is designed for sharp-minded individuals, interested in math, coding and finance. Compete with other talented students to solve complex problems, demonstrate your expertise and win exciting prizes!
When: 8th October, 17:15-20:15
Where: HG G 5, ETH Zürich
Join us for an exciting, insightful evening where you have a chance to take your quant knowledge to the next level! We’ll kick off the evening by celebrating outstanding PhD research by handing out this year’s Analytics Club PhD Prize sponsored by G-Research. Then, you’ll have the chance to challenge yourself by participating in G-Research’s quantitative finance challenge. You can work on your solutions either solo or in teams, and afterwards there will be food and a unique opportunity to network with experts from G-Research and academia.
When: 15th October, 18:00-22:00
Where: LEE 101, ETH Zürich
Join Fellowmind's webinar to master Microsoft's cutting-edge project management tools and gain the skills to excel in team or individual tasks!
When: 26th September, 14:00-16:00
Where: On Teams or Zoom, TBA
Key Facts:
- solve a real-life science challenge in 8 weeks
- hack in a team of 4 students together with non-profit organizations
- workshops and guidance from professional mentors
When: 3rd October 2024
Register by 27th of September
Sign up here!
Would you like to represent Team ETH in the ProjectX competition, hosted by the University of Toronto AI Group, the world's largest undergraduate machine learning research competition?
When: September - December 2024
Register by 20th of September
Sign up here!
This semester, MSU AI Club invites you to compete in an exclusive AI competition - where creativity meets cutting edge-technology.
When: Full-semester competition
Register by 10th of September
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We're thrilled to announce our upcoming event in collaboration with LauzHack at EPFL, focusing on the dynamic world of Julia! Get ready to explore Julia, a high-level programming language perfect for numerical analysis and computational sciences. Join us to dive into its dynamic and open-source environment. Watch out, Python! This workshop is an introduction to Julia Lang and a chance to connect with fellow enthusiasts. Don't miss this opportunity to expand your programming knowledge and gain hands-on experience with Julia!
When: May 29, 18:15-20:00
Where: HG D 16.2
Register by 29th of May
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We're excited to announce the fourth event in collaboration with AWS, focusing on building LLM-based applications. Fine-tune a LLM In this workshop, we'll guide you through fine-tuning Large Language Models like LLaMA2 or Falcon-7B using AWS SageMaker. Learn how to enhance model performance for specialized tasks using: Hugging Face's PEFT, LoRa and qLoRa. Don't miss this opportunity to expand your AI knowledge and gain hands-on experience with industry-leading technology!
When: May 28, 19:00
Where: CAB G 11
Register by 27th of May
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Join Ph.D. student from Porsche Motorsport Siwei Ju for an exploration of how AI is transforming motorsport. Gain insights into groundbreaking research on enhancing race car driver performance through imitation and reinforcement learning. Explore ongoing AI R&D within Porsche Motorsport's elite team, and delve into the unique challenges of working within a motorsport team. Don't miss this chance to delve into the intersection of technology and sports with live demonstrations and discussions on Porsche's innovative projects.
When: May 24, 16:00 - 17:30
Where: HG D 7.2
Register by 23rd of May
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We're excited to announce our third event in collaboration with AWS, focusing on building LLM-based applications. In this workshop, we will explore the world of advanced, autonomous AI agents that utilize language models as their reasoning engine. Learn how to implement AI Agents using: LangChain Agents and AWS Bedrock Agents
Don't miss this opportunity to expand your AI knowledge and gain hands-on experience with industry-leading technology!
When: May 22, 19:00
Where: CAB G 11
Register by 21st of May
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Join EWOR and Analytics Club ETH for an exciting webinar “The powerlaw of impact: Why it’s not too late to solve climate change”. Don't miss the chance to hear from speaker Daniel Dippold, a mathematician, entrepreneur, and investor, who has founded successful companies like EWOR and backed 50 others.
When: May 16, 17:30-18:30
Where: Online, join via Zoom Link
Join us for our second collaboration event with LauzHack at EPFL as Hugo Casademont presents "Windmill", an open-source developer platform that transforms scripts into auto-generated UIs, APIs, cron jobs, complex workflows and more. Gain valuable insights into industry open-source software development and stay for a fun post-event apero with pizzas!
When: May 15, 18:15-20:00
Where: HG D 16.2
Register by 14th of May
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Join us for an online lecture on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a technique integrating external insights to enhance generative models, presented by LauzHack from EPFL . Discover the transformative potential of RAG in Language Models (LLMs).
When: May 8th, 18:15-20:00
Where: ETH HG F 33.1
Register by 5th of May
Sign up here!
We are excited to invite members of the Analytics Club to a private dinner cruise with QuantCo’s team in Zurich! The boat and food are ready to depart, and we look forward to spending a great & fun evening together. If you have not heard about us before, more information about QuantCo is available on the website and on LinkedIn.
When: May 8th, 18:00
Where: more details will be sent out to the participants shortly in advance
Register by 30th April
Sign up here!
You'll take a deep dive into the captivating world of Reinforcement Learning. You'll understand how RL stands apart from other machine learning methods and take the chance to explore agents, environments, states, actions, rewards, etc. You'll dive into the Q-learning algorithm, and be introduced to Deep Q Networks (DQN) for tackling complex problems and addressing challenges in RL.
Date: 14 Nov. 2023
Location: HG E 41
Time: 18:00
Register here until 7/11/2023
Join ETH Analytics Club for a fireside chat with Martin Postel, the CTO of Opply, and Dominik Diak, Talent Investor at Entrepreneur First. Hear more about Martin's journey, from finishing a PhD at ETH to joining the Entrepreneur First program, meeting his co-founder, Helen, and raising +4m USD in funding from Europe's top investors.
Date: 6 Nov. 2023
Location: HG E 33.1
Time: 18:30
Register here now!
Apply for a private fireside-chat dinner after the open-door lecture. At the dinner you will have a chance to engage in direct discussions with Absci’s CEO, CIO and several of Absci’s AI scientists to learn more about starting and leading an AI biotech company, about AI in drug discovery and about opportunities at Absci.
Date: 13 Oct. 2023
Location: TBA
Time: 18:00
Register here until 8/10/2023
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Absci invites you for an engaging session on generative AI in drug discovery on Oct 13. Hear from AI scientists about the technical algorithms that fuel AI-driven antibody design, and learn about the role of AI in drug discovery from Absci’s CEO and founder Sean McClain and CIO Andreas Busch, formerly Bayer’s Head of Global Drug Discovery. Come by to learn more and engage in lively discussions at the ensuing aperó.
Date: 13 Oct. 2023
Location: HG E 41
Time: 15:00
Unveil the workings of Picnic's international workforce planning team, responsible for scheduling over 15,000 people across borders. Delve into the new algorithm and the implementation of an advanced system, providing an exclusive insight into the world of mathematical optimization.
Date: 16 Oct. 2023
Location: HG F 33.1
Time: 18:00
Register here until 9/10/2023
