Bloomberg Quant (BBQ) Seminar – September 2025 – Virtual Only
Please register to join us virtually from 5:30 - 7:00 pm for the Bloomberg Quant (BBQ) Seminar Series, streamed live from our Bloomberg Lexington Avenue office. A link to the webcast will be emailed to you immediately upon registration.
In this seminar chaired by Bruno Dupire, Chetan Nayak, Technical Fellow at Microsoft, will present the keynote, followed by “lightning talks” of 5 minutes each in quick succession.
5:30 PM
Keynote: Chetan Nayak
Technical Fellow at Microsoft
Utility-Scale Quantum Computers
This discussion will include the most likely applications of quantum computers and the corresponding requirements on any quantum computing system that targets these applications.
6:30 PM
Lightning Talks
Eva Flonner | Vienna University of Economics and Business
(Deep) Learning How to Smile – Neural SDE’s
William Segal | NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Ipso Facto Solutions
Mortgage State Transition Models
Francesco Tonin | Bloomberg
The James-Stein Paradox
Isabella Lai | QVR Advisors
Native Convexity
Nitin Jain| Bloomberg
Momentum or Reversal?