Date: Friday, February 20, 2015 Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Speakers: Delaney Granizo-Mackenzie, Rich Frank and Andrew Campbell (Quantopian)<https://www.quantopian.com/> Time: Lunch 12:30pm; talk 1:00pm Title: Quantopian: Free Software in Finance Abstract: Write code to invest money. Quantopian offers a free platform for you to develop, backtest, and execute trading strategies against the market. Our platform is based entirely in Python and we are currently getting ready to launch our newest tool, an in-browser iPython notebook with access to historical market data. We will go over how our platform can be used to develop a trading strategy and how you can run a hedge fund from your home. Free and open to the public. No registration required. *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 3/13 Alan Aspuru-Guzik<http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/> (Harvard University) 3/27 Jeff Bilmes<http://www.ee.washington.edu/faculty/bilmes/> (University of Washington) 4/10 Budhendra Bhaduri<http://web.ornl.gov/sci/gist/staff_bios/staff_bhaduri.shtml> (Oak Ridge National Laboratory<http://www.ornl.gov/>--- Geographic Information Science and Technology) 4/24 Christian Rudder<http://www.okcupid.com/about> (OkCupid) Click here<https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events> to subscribe to our events list. _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events