About Us
NEW YORK’S PREMIER QUANT SOCIETY
Knowledge is light. Just need another martini to find the switch.
“QWAFAxNEW“ is the premier Quant society in NYC. It was launched by Milind Sharma in 2019 following the abrupt demise of the prior organization New York QWAFAFEW. It has no formal links to QWAFAFEW. The etymology was inspired by our host city (NEW YORK) & by charting a NEW course in the spirit of TEDx to encapsulate the “exponential” possibilities through the “x” in QWAFAx while pronouncing it as “Quaff a New” in the spirit of quaffing a few together!!
A NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT
As the founding President of “QWAFAxNEW“, I had pledged to line up top-notch speakers, grow the membership exponentially, to foster collegiality, to seek partnerships with quant academic programs and to deliver on the core mission of bleeding edge educational content in an informal & collegiate setting. I am pleased to report that 5y into this journey we have delivered thus far in our stated mission with resounding success and tremendously positive feedback.
We have bootstrapped from zero to self-sufficiency: We have struck alliances with major quant MFE programs (Carnegie Mellon MSCF, Columbia MSFE, NYU Courant, Tandon, Fordham & Stevens Tech etc), been hosted onsite by several of them while lining up corporate sponsors like Nasdaq, Similarweb etc. We have exponentially multiplied our membership, found excellent speakeasies (like the Fraunces Tavern), adopted a consensus driven approach, brought in marquee name speakers dramatically upping the ante and struck alliances with all major quant conferences as media partners (Neudata, BattleFin, RavenPack, Quandl, AIDST & Battle of the Quants etc.) We have added distinguished academic advisors (Profs Mamaysky, Capponi & Tatevossian) to guide the speaker selection & delivered on the star-studded line up of speakers to drive my pledge for top notch content. When faced with the existential threat from Covid we went cyber & extended our footprint globally thereby transcending the geographic limitations of our NYC origins.
It bears pointing out that unlike any other quant society you may find both the speaker & audience “quaffing a few” while discussing Girsanov’s theorem, regime-based/ factor investing or LSTMs. Our mission is to establish that quants can party & to provide a “safe space” for them to do so – think “Revenge of the Nerds”! We look forward to your support (sponsors please reach out if you’d like to help us make these events fun & free) & involvement in making this society the envy of the quant cognoscenti as well as in keeping the events affordable for quants & students. Please join us in “quaffing a few”!
Sincerely yours – Quaffer in Chief [Milind Sharma]
*** QWAFAxNEW HAS NO FORMAL ALLIANCE WITH QWAFAFEW & SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH THE NOW DEFUNCT NY QWAFAFEW ***
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