Quantcast Master’s Series: Jack Jacquier, Imperial College London
A shift towards market micro-structure and ML has reshaped the programme
This episode of Quantcast Master’s Series – part of the Tomorrow’s Quants project – welcomes Jack Jacquier, director of the Master’s in Mathematics and Finance at Imperial College, London (ICL).
Imperial’s programme strikes a balance between the teaching of modelling foundations and applications, something it has in common with many programmes in quantitative finance.
Jacquier is confident the
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