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Tim Grant, UBS O'Connor
Abstract: Insights from a 15 year journey through the financial markets with a focus on risk management, analytics and the investment process.
The story starts in investment banking (including a front row seat during the financial crisis in 2008), moves to the world of financial technology startups before culminating at one of the most storied hedge fund names in the industy.
Bio: Tim Grant is Managing Director at UBS O'Connor, a global musti-strategy hedge fund with $6bn in assets under management. Tim has responsibilities across risk management, quantitative research and technology. Before O'Connor Tim was Managing Director at Benchmark Solutions, a Warburg Pincus backed financial technology startup focused on the combination of complex event processing and financial engineering to create reliable real-time prices for the fixed income market.
Benchmark Solutions was sold to Bloomberg LP in March 2013. Before this Tim spent 9 years at UBS, first as Managing Director within the UBS Delta portfolio solutions and analytics business, and then reporting to the Group Chief Risk Officer in 2008 as part of the management team running the $100bn Workout Group of distressed real-estate assets.
Date: October 8, 2015
Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ and now at Morgan Stanley
Bio: Dr. Stroustrup designed and implemented the C++ programming language. He is a Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley in New York City, a Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Columbia University, and a Distinguished Research Professor in Computer Science at Texas A&M University.
What should modern C++ code look like? How can we benefit from C++11 and C++14 facilities? How do we manage complexity? How do we manage resources? How do we do so with minimal cost? In other words: How do we write simple, efficient, elegant, maintainable, and fast code? Obviously there is no one simple answer, but this talk presents a few rules of thumb and illustrates them with a few key examples.
Sylvain Raynes :"Heidegger and Structured Finance"
Date: September 17, 2015
Andrew Karpiel, Akuna Capital
Date: September 3, 2015
Daniel Duffy: "C++11 for Design and Implementation of Software Applications: the Next Generation"
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Duffy, Datasim Education BV
Abstract: We give an overview of the new language features in C++11 and how to use them to create flexible code for applications. In particular, we discuss how to use the new data structures, support for multiparadigm programming models and improved syntax in code:
Object-oriented, generic and functional programming models
New data structures (for example, tuples and unordered containers)
Using C++11 to create next-generation design patterns
C++11 and Boost C++ libraries
A discussion of applications in computational finance and engineering
This talk is suitable for people who use C++ and who wish to apply C++11 to their own applications.
Bio: Daniel J. Duffy has been working in software development projects as programmer, designer, trainer and author since 1979. He has been working in areas such as oil/gas, computer graphics/CAD, process control and computational finance.
Daniel Duffy is the originator of the popular Baruch/Quantnet MFE Program C++ online course. He has a PhD in Numerical Analysis from Trinity College (Dublin University). In his free time he likes doing the gentle sports of judo, karate and ju-jutsu.
Date: June 18, 2015
Andrew Sheppard: "Banking on the Blockchain" ~ Crypto-currencies and why finance will never be the same again!
Bio: Andrew Sheppard started his career in finance as a quant at Bankers Trust working in London, then Tokyo, and finally in New York. Andrew has since worked as a consultant, chief quant and CTO at various European and U.S. banks and a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. Since 2010 he has worked as a consultant exclusively in the areas of Big Data and Big Compute in finance and insurance.
Summary: Bitcoin is a financial AND technological tour-de-force; albeit built on a mountain of past failures. Several previous attempts have been made at making some form of digital cash; they all failed for one reason or another. Bitcoin, using the blockchain, is the first crypto-currency and form of digital cash that looks like it might work.
And Bitcoin is really a currency built on top of a technology stack, which is the blockchain. If Bitcoin (the currency) were to die tomorrow, the blockchain would live on. Not only does the blockchain make many things we do in finance simpler, more secure, and lower cost. It also has the future built-in in the sense that it makes many of the things we can imagine doing (and those that we can't) simpler, more secure, and lower cost.
Now that the blockchain genie is out of the bottle, so to speak; the blockchain, as a technology, is finding wider application well beyond Bitcoin. There are other crypto-currencies, and new ways of using the blockchain wholly unrelated to digital cash (such as electronic volting).
In this talk I will go though the technology building blocks that make up the blockchain and its relationship to crypto-currencies and other things. Along the way, I'll cover some fundamental concepts; such as how the blockchain relates to information theory and the irreversibility of time. Deep stuff!
Jacky Lee, Credit Suisse : "Adjoint Credit Risk Management"
Bio: Jacky Lee is the US regional head of Quantitative Strategies and is also the global head of Quantitative Strategies Global Credit Products at Credit Suisse. He is currently focusing in the areas of Flow and Structured Credit, Strategic Risk Program and Counterparty Credit Risk Management. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in August 2002, he began his career as a quantitative modeller in the Credit Derivative Research Team in Morgan Stanley in 1998. Jacky holds a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University and an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Auckland University, New Zealand.
Abstract: Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation is one of the principal innovations in risk management of the recent times. In this talk we show how this technique can be used to compute real time risk for credit products.
Date: January 27, 2015
Luca Capriotti, Director in the Quantitative Strategies Group at Credit Suisse Group : Monte Carlo Methods for American Options
Dr. Luca Capriotti, Director in the Quantitative Strategies Group at Credit Suisse Group, will give a talk on Monte Carlo Methods for American Options
Date: April 26, 2014
Eugene Neduv, Partner, Red Swan Risk : Financial Network Analytics and Equity Portfolio Hedging
Teaching machines to read for fun and profit
Eugene Neduv, Partner, Red Swan Risk
In 2010 Eugene Neduv has started to work as independent consultant in volatility trading and risk management. His clients include a few firms in Sao Paulo and New York. Eugene also conducts mathematical research with colleagues in Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro.
Currently Eugene is also a partner at a boutique risk consulting firm Red Swan Risk and is on board of directors of RDJ fund of funds that provides portfolio construction and allocation advise to off shore investors in Brazil.
Financial Network Analytics is a software application founded by Kimmo Soramaki. FNA allows exploration and monitoring of large-scale dependence structures of financial assets. It uses network theory for reducing market or portfolio complexity with intuitive and interactive data visualizations. This allows enhanced identification of price driving themes and market dynamics, and the discovery of market anomalies.
Date: April 12, 2014
Gary Kazantsev, Head R&D Machine Learning, Bloomberg LP : Teaching machines to read for fun and profit.
Financial Network Analytics and Equity Portfolio Hedging
Gary Kazantsev, Head R&D Machine Learning, Bloomberg
Gary Kazantsev runs the R&D Machine Learning group at Bloomberg LP, leading projects in the areas of computational linguistics and machine learning such as sentiment analysis, market impact indicators, machine translation, text classification and predictive modeling of financial markets. He holds degrees in physics, mathematics and computer science from Boston University.
Financial Network Analytics is a software application founded by Kimmo Soramaki. FNA allows exploration and monitoring of large-scale dependence structures of financial assets. It uses network theory for reducing market or portfolio complexity with intuitive and interactive data visualizations. This allows enhanced identification of price driving themes and market dynamics, and the discovery of market anomalies.
Date: April 12, 2014
Tim Grant, Managing Director at UBS O'Connor: Risky Business
Risky Business
Tim Grant, UBS O'Connor
Tim Grant is Managing Director at UBS O'Connor, a global musti-strategy hedge fund with $6bn in assets under management. Tim has responsibilities across risk management, quantitative research and technology. Before O'Connor Tim was Managing Director at Benchmark Solutions, a Warburg Pincus backed financial technology startup focused on the combination of complex event processing and financial engineering to create reliable real-time prices for the fixed income market.
Benchmark Solutions was sold to Bloomberg LP in March 2013. Before this Tim spent 9 years at UBS, first as Managing Director within the UBS Delta portfolio solutions and analytics business, and then reporting to the Group Chief Risk Officer in 2008 as part of the management team running the $100bn Workout Group of distressed real-estate assets.
Insights from a 15 year journey through the financial markets with a focus on risk management, analytics and the investment process.
The story starts in investment banking (including a front row seat during the financial crisis in 2008), moves to the world of financial technology startups before culminating at one of the most storied hedge fund names in the industy.
Date: April 11, 2014
Vahagn Minasian, Goldman Sachs: Quantitative and operational challenges in the aftermath of financial crisis and another recent market events
Quantitative and operational challenges in the aftermath of financial crisis and another recent market events
Vahagn Minasian, Goldman Sachs
Bio: After graduating with a PhD in Mathematics (Algebraic Topology) from University of Illinois, Dr. Vahagn Minasianheld a postdoc at Northwestern University and the Tamarkin Assistant Professorship at Brown before joining the equity derivatives desk at Goldman Sachs in 2004, where I am currently a Managing Director.
We discuss how some of the recent events in industry changed the way the banks approach variety of risk management and control functions and quantitative challenges it presented Examples include:
– challenges in projecting funding needs of derivatives businesses
– flash crash and other electronic mkt disruptions
– derivatives pricing and risk management in the environment where the "conventional" relationships between mkt data inputs evolve
Date: April 11, 2014
David Greenberg, Greenberg Capital, former NYMEX Board of Directors: Transition of Open Outcry Trading to Electronic Trading
Transition of Open Outcry Trading to Electronic Trading
David Greenberg, Morgan Stanley
Mr. Greenberg has over 22 years of experience in private investments, commodities trading, and global markets. Throughout his career, Mr. Greenberg has appeared on numerous media outlets including CNN, Fox Business News, Bloomberg, and CNBC. He is frequently interviewed about commodities trading, executive board decisions, and business projections. He is a frequent guest lecturer for the finance program at both Hofstra University and the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. In addition, he teaches a course on the transition to electronic trading at the Museum of American Finance. Mr. Greenberg is highly sought after for his ability to explain complex corporate and trading situations.
Transition of Open Outcry Trading to Electronic Trading: how it happened, why it happened, the players involved and the effects it has had on the world energy markets
Date: April 5, 2014
Peter Carr, Managing Director and Global Head of Market Modeling at Morgan Stanley: Kelly's Criterion
Kelly's Criterion
Peter Carr, Morgan Stanley
Dr. Peter Carr, Managing Director and Global Head of Market Modeling at Morgan Stanley, will give a talk on the "Kelly's Criterion".
Date: March 28, 2014
Dmitry Sendersky, BlackRock Solutions : Valuation of a CSO-squared using control variates
Valuation of a CSO-squared using control variates
Dmitry Sendersky, BlackRock Solutions
Dmitry Sendersky is a Director with the Financial Modeling Group of BlackRock Solutions. Upon graduating with a PhD in Applied Mathematics from SUNY Stony Brook in 2000, Dmitry has started his career in Finance with Kiodex, a startup specializing in Commodity Risk Management (oil, natural gas, refined products). In 2003 he joined RiskMetrics and focused on Structured Finance (Collateralized Bond Obligations). In 2005, Dmitry has moved to BlackRock Solutions to head the Quantitative Credit Team in Financial Modeling Group (FMG). Currently, Dmitry is the co-head of Term Structure and Security Valuations Team within FMG.
The presentation discusses a methodology of valuing complex synthetic instruments in the absence of liquid markets and highlights the standard Monte Carlo techniques.
Date: January 23, 2014
Thomas Hewett, Chief Risk Officer of Perella Weinberg Partners : Random Matrices and Optimal (?) Portfolios
Random Matrices and Optimal (?) Portfolios
Thomas Hewett, Perella Weinberg Partners
Thomas is Chief Risk Officer of Perella Weinberg Partners. Prior to joining PWP, he was the Global Chief Risk Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management , where he was responsible for all aspects of market, credit and operational risk management oversight from a fiduciary and proprietary perspective. Prior to that he was a Managing Director at MSIM managing the quant team responsible for implementation of risk analytics and review of quantitative portfolio construction tools throughout the business. Before joining MSIM, Thomas was a Senior Manager in the Global Capital Markets Consulting Group at Deloitte & Touche.
Random Matrices and optimal (?) portfolios.Markowitz Portfolio optimization is considered by many practitioners to be a fundamentally unstable process of more interest to academics than portfolio managers. Random matrix theory (born out of statistical quantum mechanics in the 1950s) provides clarity on why this is so and some powerful new results provide tools for measuring and managing this instability.
Date: November 21, 2013
Andreas Bohn, Deutsche Bank: Impact of Basel III on Business Strategy
Impact of Basel III on Business Strategy
Andreas Bohn, Deutsche Bank
Dr. Andreas Bohn started his career at Deutsche Bank Fixed Income Research in 1993. He held several roles such as market maker for short-term interest rate derivatives, structurer for interest rate notes, and market risk manager for interest rate derivatives as well as banking books. Since 2004 he runs the Asset & Liability Management as well as overall Balance Sheet Management for Global Transaction Banking of Deutsche Bank with presences in Frankfurt, London, New York and Singapore.
Date: February 15, 2012
Sebastián Ceria, CEO of Axioma : Axioma, its role in the financial industry, and opportunities here.
Axioma, its role in the financial industry, and opportunities here
Sebastián Ceria, Axioma
Before founding Axioma,Dr. Sebastián Ceria was an Associate Professor of Decision, Risk and Operations at Columbia Business School from 1993 to 1998. He was honored with the prestigious Career Award for Operations Research from the National Science Foundation, which is given annually to the two best researchers and teachers in the area. While at Columbia he was also recognized as the "best core teacher" by his students and the school. Additionally, Ceria has served as administrator for the Computational Optimization Research Center and as co-principal investigator in two National Science Foundation research projects.
Ceria is the author of many articles and has been featured regularly in a variety of publications including Management Science, Mathematical Programming, Optima and Operations Research. He has also been an editor for Optima, and a regular referee for a number of publications in the area. Past speaking engagements include international corporate and academic conferences.
Date: January 24, 2012
Neil Chriss, Managing Principal at Hutchin Hill Capital
Dr. Neil Chriss is one of the top quants in the world. More information on Dr. Chriss's career as a hedge fund manager, an academic and financial engineering educator, and a highly successful poker player, can be found at Wikipedia.
Professor Jim Gatheral invited Dr. Neil Chriss to a conversation on how his mathematical training contributed to his success, and how he sees the future for mathematically-trained people.
Date: September 26, 2011
Tim Grant, Benchmark Solutions: Understanding the Difference Between Risk Taking, Risk Management and Risk Control
Understanding the Difference Between Risk Taking, Risk Management and Risk Control
Tim Grant, Benchmark Solutions
Tim Grant spent 10 years at UBS. He was an early member of the UBS Delta group (a portfolio solutions and analytics business within the Fixed Income Sales and Trading Division) from 1999 and ultimately led that business in the Americas. In 2008 he reported directly to the Group Chief Risk Officer and was assigned to the team managing the bank's portfolio of distressed real estate assets.
With respect to the recent financial crisis was it risk management and quantitative modeling that failed the people? Or was it the people who were supposed to be implementing risk management strategies and leveraging quantitative finance that failed the people? Let's discuss.
Date: May 06, 2011
Luca Capriotti, Credit Suisse: Algorithmic Differentiation: Adjoint Greeks Made Easy
Algorithmic Differentiation: Adjoint Greeks Made Easy
Luca Capriotti, Director, Credit Suisse
Dr. Luca Capriotti is a Director at Credit Suisse Group, Investment Banking Division, where he works in the Quantitative Strategies Group(formerly known as GMAG) in the New York city office. He is currently focusing on modeling in the areas of Structured Credit, and Counterparty Credit Risk Management. He is also working on developing efficient and general multi-asset Monte Carlo engines supporting fast calculation of Greeks for which he has a Patent pending. Previous to this role, he has worked in Commodities Exotics in New York and London and in the cross-asset modeling R&D group of GMAG in the London office. His current research interests are in the field of Credit Default Intensity Modelling and Computational Finance, mainly focusing on efficient numerical techniques for Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management. Luca holds a M.S. cum laude in General Physics from University of Florence (1996), and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. cum laude in Condensed Matter Theory, from the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste (2000).
Show how algorithmic differentiation can be used as a design paradigm to implement the adjoint calculation of sensitivities in Monte Carlo in full generality and with minimal analytical effort. With several examples we illustrate the workings of this technique and demonstrate how it can be straightforwardly implemented to reduce the time required for the computation of the risk of any portfolio by orders of magnitude.
Date: April 29, 2011
Miguel Castro, Two Sigma Investment: Forecasting in High-Frequency Trading
Forecasting in High-Frequency Trading
Miguel Castro, Managing Director, Two Sigma Investments
Dr. Miguel Castro has 10 years of experience in algorithmic trading. He is presently Managing Director at Two Sigma Investments where he leads a small quant research team in high-frequency algorithmic trading. Before Two Sigma, he worked for a large European bank, and prior to that, for another quantitative hedge fund. Before his life in finance, he worked in research and development for Intel Corporation. Miguel holds a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Cornell University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering with specialty in Machine Learning, and a Ph.D. in Physics, both from Purdue University. He also holds an MBA with emphasis in finance from the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Forecasting is at the heart of algorithmic trading. Besides the usual difficulties due to market efficiencies, high-frequency forecasting presents its own set of challenges. We will consider forecasting in the context of high-frequency algo trading, and explore some challenges and useful techniques.
Date: April 12, 2011
Ron Burtnett – A Conversation with Jim Gatheral
Ron Burtnett – A conversation with Jim Gatheral
Ron Burtnett, Formerly Global Head of Operational Risk Measurement at Morgan Stanley
Professor Jim Gatheral invited Ron Burtnett to a conversation on how his mathematical training contributed to his success, and how he sees the future for mathematically-trained people. This promises to be an exceedingly interesting event, with a "Charlie Rose" format!
Date: January 25, 2011
Peter Carr, Morgan Stanley: An Alternate History of the Black-Scholes PDE
An Alternate History of the Black Scholes PDE
Peter Carr, Global Head of Market Modeling at Morgan Stanley
Dr. Peter Carr is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in New York. He is also the Executive Director of the Masters in Math Finance program at NYU's Courant Institute. Prior to his current positions, he headed quantitative research groups at Bloomberg LP and at Bank of America Securities. His prior academic positions include 4 years as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and 8 years as a finance professor at Cornell University. Since receiving his PhD. in Finance from UCLA in 1989, he has published extensively in both academic and industry-oriented journals. He is currently the treasurer of the Bachelier Finance Society and an associate editor for 8 journals related to mathematical finance and derivatives. He has given numerous talks at both practitioner and academic conferences. He is also credited with numerous contributions to quantitative finance including: co-inventing the variance gamma model, inventing static and semi-static hedging of exotic options, and popularizing variance swaps and corridor variance swaps. Peter has won awards from Wilmott Magazine for "Cutting Edge Research" and from Risk Magazine for "Quant of the Year". Peter has just been named the 2010 IAFE Financial Engineer of the Year
The Black-Scholes partial differential equation (PDE) was first published in 1973, having been derived previously by Black in 1969. This linear PDE is celebrated primarily because it is independent of the attitudes towards risk of investors in the economy. In 1968, Black derived a nonlinear PDE that shares this fundamental risk-neutral property. We show that the famous linear PDE could have been derived from the nonlinear PDE using financial and mathematical concepts available in 1968.
Date: November 29, 2010
Michael Botlo – A Conversation with Jim Gatheral
Michael Botlo – A conversation with Jim Gatheral
Michael Botlo, co-founder and the CEO of Quantbot Technologies
Dr. Michael Botlo is a co-founder and the CEO of the quantitative investment advisor Quantbot Technologies that transacts daily in many global equity markets. Before 2009, he led Electronic Product Development in the Global Market Division at Merrill Lynch. In this role, he was responsible for the implementation of the automated trading vision across liquid asset classes. Before joining Merrill, Michael was a founding member of the Electronic Trading Lab at Morgan Stanley. The group successfully developed the Firm's electronic capabilities in global Delta1 Equities, from quantitative proprietary to algorithmic agency businesses. Michael holds a Masters Degree in Astronomy and a PhD in Elementary Particle physics. He has spent several years as a research fellow at various nuclear research facilities across the globe.
Professor Jim Gatheral invited Dr. Michael Botlo to a conversation regarding careers in quant space, and their future. This promises to be an exceedingly interesting event, with a "Charlie Rose" format!
In an informal conversation with Jim Gatheral, Michael Botlo will describe his current role at Quantbot, his previous career, how his mathematical training has contributed to his success, and how he sees the future for mathematically-trained people. Questions from the audience are encouraged.
Date: November 29, 2010
John Crosby, UBS: Optimal Hedging of Variance Derivatives
Optimal Hedging of Variance Derivatives
John Crosby, Executive Director, Quantitative Analytics and Derivatives Research at UBS, London , and Visiting Professor of Quantitative Finance, Glasgow University
John began his career by trading FX options. He then moved to Monis (formerly London Business School Financial Software) where he wrote their pricing libraries for a very wide range of exotic derivatives as well as co-writing their three-factor Convertible bond model, which captured stochastic equity prices, interest-rates and default risk. He then headed quant teams at Barclays Capital and Lloyds where he developed derivatives models across all asset classes. He is best known for publishing several papers in the area of commodity and hybrid derivatives. John is a visiting Professor at Glasgow University and an invited lecturer on the M.Sc. course in Mathematical Finance at Oxford University as well as being an Executive Director in the front-office Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange and Commodity derivatives research and quantitative analytics team at UBS.
- Hedging of variance swaps – why the existing log-contract approach is, in general, sub-optimal
- Optimal hedging of variance swaps
- Optimal hedging of other variance-equity hybrid derivatives
- Implications for hedging under extreme market conditions such as in Autumn 2008
Date: November 16, 2010
Jim Conklin, FX Concepts: Introduction to Quant Macro Investing
Introduction to Quant Macro Investing
Jim Conklin, Managing Director and Head of Investment Research, Product Development Committee, FX Concepts
- General description of the investment strategy, sector, in the context of the "buy-side" as a whole
- Opportunities for "quants" in the Quant Macro area
- Quantitative description of the strategy: forecasting methods
- Quantitative description of the strategy: the use of optimization
Date: November 2, 2010
Todd Mitty – A Conversation with Jim Gatheral
Dr. Todd Mitty – A conversation with Jim Gatheral
Todd Mitty, Global Head of Delta One Business Development at Credit Suisse
Professor Jim Gatheral invited Dr. Todd Mitty to a conversation regarding careers in quant space, and their future. This will be an exceedingly interesting event, with a "Charlie Rose" format.
Date: November 1, 2010
Security pricing services: How valuation models are replacing evaluators
Andrew Kalotay, Kalotay Associates
Date: March 26, 2009
Managing Diversification
Attilio Meucci, Bloomberg L.P.
Date: March 20, 2009
Mortgage-backed Securities
Robert Young, Citigroup
Date: March 13, 2009
Applications for Financial Engineering at the Fed
Karen H. Johnson, Federal Reserve Board
Date: February 20, 2009
Is There A Future for Financial Engineering?
Martin Helm, Deutsche Bank
Date: February 13, 2009
Structuring Trade Execution Analytics Around theInvestment Process
Ian Domowitz, Investment Technology Group
Date: December 16, 2008
Quantitative Challenges in Algorithmic Execution
Robert Almgren, Quantitative Brokers
Date: December 9, 2008


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At that point, the victim got into her car and left. According to the report, she did not see the suspect with a weapon.
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Charlie Miller's security research for Accuvant Labs details the many vulnerabilities he found in NFC implementations. These vulnerabilities allowed him to access photos, send text messages, make calls and browse the Internet. If an attacker is able to force access to the Internet over NFC, they could potentially root the phone. The security risk from NFC attacks could be minimized by using an app that only enables the feature for a short period when its use is absolutely necessary. Keeping mobile devices updated with the most recent patches also helps reduce any NFC security risks, but, of course, this depends on the wireless carrier ecosystem used to deploy the patches.
In most environments, banning any device as a part of a BYOD policy would be impossible to do consistently. If a company has the sufficient resources and enough control to search everyone who enters your buildings or check the configuration of all devices connecting to your systems or network, it might be possible.
Many enterprises have fretted over any new wireless technology that they don't think they can fully control, including WiFi, Bluetooth, RFID and now NFC. Enterprise fears over wireless security even created a market for anti-WiFi paint, so special phone cases that block NFC are probably the next cell phone accessory to be marketed along with RFID blockers. For some enterprises, security concerns over NFC technology are legitimate, but for the majority of enterprises that don't have such stringent security requirements, worrying about NFC may not be a good use of information security resources.
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|Churches of Christ in Christian Union
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Ohio Christian University (OCU) is a private college in Circleville, Ohio. The school is denominationally affiliated with the Churches of Christ in Christian Union.
The school was founded in 1948 as Mount of Praise Bible College, which met at the Mount of Praise Campground, where the Churches of Christ in Christian Union held annual revivalist camp meetings. The primary objective of the bible college was to train ministers for the Churches of Christ in Christian Union denomination. It later became Circleville Bible College. In 2006, the college changed its name to Ohio Christian University and received regional accreditation.
Over the past several years, the University has seen tremendous growth. In Fall 2011, total enrollment reached 2,382 with about 600 on campus and the rest online or at satellite locations.[1][2]
Former presidents[edit]
Everett A. Keaton (1948-1952)
- First president of Ohio Christian University (first known as Mount of Praise Bible School)
- Two-Year Bible Training Course established in 1949
- Improvements and upgrades to the Mount of Praise Camp Meeting grounds in order to facilitate needs of the college
- Ministerial and denominational financial support of the college created
- First Student Council created
Guy C. Johnson (1952-1953)
- Only interim president in the history of Ohio Christian University
Richard G. Humble (1953-1956)
- First Administration building constructed and completed (1953–54)
- Name of school changed from Mount of Praise Bible School to Circleville Bible College (spring 1954)
- First college chapel built (1955)
- First President's home purchased (Christmas 1955)
- Student enrollment tops 50 for first time (January 1956)
Glen Johnson (1956-1959)
- Student enrollment tops 70 for first time (September 1957)
- First College Board of Trustees organized in 1958
- New library-science building constructed in 1958 financed primarily through donation campaign among Church of Christ in Evangelical Christian Youth
Morton W. Dorsey (1959-1964)
- Ohio Christian University received its first state charter from Ohio Board of Education (1961)
- College station wagon purchased through Top Value Stamps campaign among the student body (fall 1961)
- First Youth Conference Weekend began in spring 1961
Melvin Maxwell (1964-1980)
- Administration/academic building constructed and occupied in August 1966 at new 40-acre campus site on Route 22 east of Circleville
- Student enrollment tops 150 (fall 1967)
- York Hall, Campus Church, Academic Building, Moore Hall, and Campus Center constructed and occupied (1967-1970)
- Student enrollment tops 200 (fall 1968)
- In 1970, the university received applicant status from American Association of Bible Colleges.
- Full accreditation as a Bible college attained in fall 1976.
Douglas Carter (1980-1989)
- Increased the profile of OCU nationally with his involvement in World Gospel Mission
- OCU accepted as a participant in the Ohio Instructional Grant program
- OCU budget tithe implemented in each CCCU local church
- Endowment Fund created; $450,000 balance in 1989
- Intercollegiate sports in the National Christian College Athletic Association for men and women were established (basketball for both men and women; volleyball for women and baseball for men)
- Associate of Arts degree in Religion approved by the Ohio Board of Regents
David Van Hoose (1989-1994)
- In 1989, 5-Year Strategic Plan developed as required by AABC. This plan served as a model for other colleges in AABC as well as for OCU
- Counseling program major created; Teacher Education Education program affiliation with Mount Vernon Nazarene College and Ashland University established
- Adult Completion Program (predecessor to today's popular AIM Program) was instituted
- Office of Institutional Development created
- Major fire in December 1990 destroyed much of the girl's dormitory, Moore Hall. Restoration completed in the summer of 1991
- Johnson Hall and Campus Church made handicap-accessible in 1993
John Conley (1995-2005)
- Steered OCU through the process of accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. Received full accreditation in 2005.
- Annual operating budget of OCU increased from $1.4 million in 1995 to $3.8 million in 2003
- Student enrollment increased from 170 in 1995 to 413 in 2005; OCU received Christianity Today and the Association for Biblical Higher Education's growth award in 2001 and again in 2005
- OCU graduates largest class ever in 2005 with 96 students
- The Adult Education Program (AIM) was launched in 1998 and later expanded to the campuses of Hocking College and Columbus State Community College
- 14,000-square-foot addition made to the Melvin and Laura Maxwell Library
- Three-family unit townhouse and World Gospel Mission Student Involvement Center erected in 1999
- Clock tower named in honor of longtime faculty member Dr. David Case placed in center of the campus area
- Addition of a rear entrance to Johnson Hall and the refurbishing of the exterior of the Graham Administration Building completed in 2003–04
- Construction of a 6400-square-foot addition to Johnson Hall that houses the Music Department, Student Services, Student Lounge and President's Dining Room; the OCU Board of Trustees named the addition the Conley Ministry Center in his honor
The university sits on the outskirts of Circleville, Ohio and has been expanding. Classes are located in the Maxwell Center, Johnson Hall, and the science and logistics center. Students reside as freshmen in York Hall and Moore Hall. From there, they may choose to live in Lewis Moats Hall, New Hall, an offsite residence named Terrace, or townhouses.
Since 2008, Maxwell Center has expanded by adding the science and logistics center and a student development center. The university has plans to develop the traditional campus further in the next five years.
The school offers the Bachelor of Arts, Associate of Arts and Master of Arts in professional fields of study. It also offers an Adult and Online Degree Program. Their online counseling degrees are the most affordable in the United States.[3] It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Ohio Christian University's Adult and Online Degree Programs offer associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. OCU offers online education and evening or weekend classes at campuses in Ohio and Georgia. Ohio campus locations include Dublin, Columbus, Pataskala, Grove City, Lancaster, Circleville, Chillicothe, Nelsonville and the campuses of Southern State Community College in Wilmington, Washington Court House, Hillsboro and Sardinia. The Georgia campus is located in Milner.
- Accredited by The Higher Learning Commission.
- Accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education
- Authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to offer associate, baccalaureate, and masters level education.
- Chartered by the State of Ohio.
- Approved by the United States Office of Education for participation in the federal students financial aid programs.
- Approved by the Ohio Board of Regents to offer teacher education programs.
- Approved by the United States Department of Justice for the education of foreign students.
- Approved by the Internal Revenue Service for Social Security benefits for eligible students.
- Approved to train Veterans or eligible persons.
- Recognized by the Churches of Christ in Christian Union, Primitive Methodist Church, Evangelical Church and Evangelical Methodist Church, for ministerial training.
Student life[edit]
The Student Activities Council (SAC) offers activities throughout the school year. Among the more popular activities are Friday Night Live, a live variety show written and performed by students. Performed in Detty Chapel, the night is usually hosted by an alumnus or faculty member. Another popular activity is midnight breakfast, an event scheduled at the beginning of final examinations week, catered by favorite staff and faculty.
Chapel is housed in Detty Chapel and is offered twice every Tuesday and Thursday. Students come to worship with a live student band and hear a message by the chaplain or special guest. There is a required number of times that every student must attend while enrolled at Ohio Christian.
A Student Development Center houses dining facilities, the office of Student Development, the department of psychology, and several classrooms. In addition, there is a full Christian bookstore, a coffee shop, and an arcade.
The Trailblazers, as the school's athletic teams are called, compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC). Men's sports include baseball, soccer, basketball, cross country, and golf. Women's sports include volleyball, basketball, soccer, cross country, and softball.
Ohio Christian was accepted by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for membership beginning with the 2015-16 school year. [4]
Men's Soccer[edit]
The men's soccer program was started in 1980 and was coached by Mike Walters. The first 30 years of the program saw very little success on the field where the best record was posted in 1983 (7-7-0). In 1999, the program cease to exist and didn't start back up until 2004 by a handful of students. In 2008, OCU was under the helm of Josh Murton who led the team to its best record in school history (10-5-1). In 2009, more success came as OCU went 17-6-1 and finished 3rd in the NCCAA Division 2. Then in 2010 OCU again out did itself as they lost in the National Championship to Clearwater Christian College, 0-2. They finished the season 14-9-0 playing their toughest schedule in school history, yet they finish #2 in the Nation. In 2011, the men broke the school record for winning percentage (.783) with a record of 17-4-2. Losing in the final four to Northland International University (WI) ended their title hopes. The 2012 and 2013 seasons saw restructuring years for the program yet success still came as both years they won more than 10 games while also winning regional titles. In 2012, they again lost to Northland International in the semifinals and in 2013 they finished 5th in the nation. 2014 was the final year for OCU in the NCCAA Div. 2 and the men made it to the National Championship once again. Losing to Maranatha Baptist University (1-2), the men took the program to a 14-9-0 record with the most difficult schedule OCU has played.[according to whom?]
- YEAR W-L-T Pts GF GA +/- Head Coach Assistant Coach(s)
- 2014 14-9-0 42 65 37 +28 Josh Murton James McIlhargey, Brock Gill, Erik McNeal
- 2013 12-10-1 37 40 57 -17 Josh Murton James McIlhargey, Kevin Street
- 2012 11-9-3 36 54 42 +12 Josh Murton James McIlhargey, Kevin Street
- 2011 17-4-2 53 70 17 +53 Josh Murton James McIlhargey, Erik McNeal
- 2010 14-9-0 42 48 36 +12 Josh Murton James McIlhargey, Alex Murton
- 2009 17-6-1 52 79 34 +45 Josh Murton James McIlhargey, JJ Bradley, Tim Jones
- 2008 10-5-1 31 45 36 +9 Josh Murton James McIlhargey, Mark Casperson
Men's Basketball[edit]
Head Coach Tony Stockman enjoyed a memorable inaugural season as he led the Trailblazers to the very first NCCAA National Championship in school history during his first year as coach. The Trailblazers went 27-8 overall and 22-0 against NCCAA Division II competition on their way to the National Title. Stockman is a product of Medina, Ohio and is no stranger to basketball in the Buckeye state. Stockman was named Mr. Basketball Ohio in 2000 after averaging 25.5 points per game and becoming the all-time leading scorer at Medina High School where he led his team to a 58-9 record in three seasons. He then signed with Clemson University where he would prove to be the top freshman in the ACC with a scoring average of 12.0 in his first season. In his 2nd season at Clemson he was the leading sophomore scorer in ACC play with an average of 14.1 points per game in conference games. Stockman became an Ohio State Buckeye following the 2001-02 season when he transferred from Clemson University. After sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer rules, he averaged 13.6 points per game to lead Ohio State in scoring as a junior. As a senior, he led Ohio State to a 20-12 record under new head coach Thad Matta.
"Tony is a leader in every sense of the word," said Ohio State Coach Thad Matta. "He was a floor general for us and was the closest thing you could get to a coach on the floor." Stockman comes to OCU with strong ties to both Thad Matta at Ohio State University and John Groce (formerly) at Ohio University. Both coaches have served as mentors to Coach Stockman for the past nine years and will continue in that relationship in his new role at OCU.
"I want to help young men grow on and off the court as they become future leaders in our community," said Stockman. "Ohio Christian University is a great place to grow and develop both spiritually and as a young professional. If you are a young person looking for that kind of opportunity, then OCU is the place to be." Stockman is married to his wife Brittany and the couple has three sons - Tayden, Maddox, and Braysen.
Notable alumni[edit]
- John C. Maxwell, author and leadership coach
- Rod Parsley, pastor and founder of World Harvest Church
- Stan Toler, General Superintendent, Church of the Nazarene
External links[edit]
- Private universities and colleges in Ohio
- Christian universities and colleges affiliated with the Churches of Christ in Christian Union
- Circleville, Ohio
- Educational institutions established in 1948
- Education in Pickaway County, Ohio
- Buildings and structures in Pickaway County, Ohio
- Association of Christian College Athletics member schools
- Evangelicalism in Ohio
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NEW YORK -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) entered into a partnership yesterday with an engineering and construction firm, an integrated oil refinery, and a local union of the United Steel Workers of America to ensure safety and health of workers during a major construction project in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Joining OSHA in the partnership is Bechtel International, Inc., Hovensa LLC refinery, and the United Steel Workers of America -- Local 8526. The objective of the agreement is to reduce the rate for injuries and illnesses by 20 percent and prevent serious accidents during the construction of the coker plant by focusing on eliminating hazards associated with falls, electrical, struck by, and caught by/in-between dangers.
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- enforcing the use of 100 per cent conventional fall protection systems where employees work in excess of six feet above a lower level, including steel erection; and,
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I am modifying a C-Kermit script I have to not continue processing
if a call to another script does not return a value of 1 (We are doing
this for fail over testing).
Here is the C-Kermit code in question:
# run the db_status script in the CRON directory
run db_status
# See if the ret value is != 1
# If it != 1 tell user we are not on the primay server and then
if != \v(pexitstat) 1
echo Return code != 1 ... Not the primary server
echo return code = \v(pexitstat)
# otherwise we are on the primary server so continue processing
When I run this on the Secondary server it works (since the result
returned from the db_status script is a 2 since it is not the primary
However, when I test this on the primay server the code exits (meaning
it executes the body of the if statment above) despite the fact that
the return code from db_status is 1.
Any suggestions, as to what I'm doing wrong?
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14 January - Gemma John (AECOM)
Designing Workspaces: Corporate Anthropology at AECOM
Gemma John completed her PhD at St Andrews in 2009. Her doctoral work focused on the reception, implementation, and use of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. She has since held post-doctoral fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and more recently at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester. She completed a diploma in interior design at the Interior Design School in 2014. She now works for AECOM as a research and strategy consultant within Strategy+.
28 January - Elizabeth Franz (Open Society Foundation)
Beyond the ivory tower: reflections on ethnography and advocacy in the field of migration
Elizabeth Frantz is the program officer for Asia and the Middle East for the Open Society Foundations' International Migration Initiative. Her role is to design and manage a portfolio of grants aiming to improve the situation of low-wage migrant workers employed in Asia and the Arab region. In that capacity, she funds research, convenes meetings of stakeholders, engages in advocacy work and provides grants and technical assistance to support the work of civil society organisations. Elizabeth completed a doctorate in anthropology in 2011 at the London School of Economics. Her PhD thesis examined labour migration from South Asia to the Arab region through a focus on Sri Lankan domestic workers in Jordan. Before joining the International Migration Initiative, Elizabeth worked as a consultant with the Open Society Foundations' Arab Regional Office in Jordan. She has also worked as a researcher on issues relating to refugees and asylum seekers at the American University in Cairo's Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program in Egypt. She has carried out research in Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Turkey.
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Lucia is a designer and anthropologist specialising in design semiotics and material culture. She has extensive experience in the development of tools for cultural analysis and design innovation through the application of design theoretical principles, anthropological and semiotic thinking. She is skilled in strategy, product & brand innovation and creative development. Lucia has over 15 years of experience working for commercial and non-commercial clients around the globe. She is the founder of Visual Signo, UK and Co-Founder of Semiofest (A Celebration of Semiotic Thinking).
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Franco Papeschi (World Wide Web Foundation)
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Geke van Dijk, Baas Raijmakers from STBY in London and Josephine Wong and Daniel Szuc from Apogee in Hong Kong
In this presentation some of the partners in the Reach network (a network of user research companies in Europe, India, China and Japan) help organisations to develop global insights from connected local studies. Together they explore people's practices and preferences, to identify new opportunities for service innovation. The talk will be given jointly by Geeke and Baas who are based in Europe and Josephine and Szuc who are based in Hong Kong.
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Ken Banks from Kiwanja.net and Frontline SMS
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22nd February - "Doing semiotics"
Sam Barton from Added Value Cultural Insights Team
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Richard Banks and Alex Taylor from Microsoft Research in Cambridge
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Sitting at the computer this Memorial day morning, it's striking how many people are responding authoritatively to the news of Israel's attack on the Gaza aid flotilla, even though at this point almost all the news is coming from sources with a strong vested interest in how it's spun.
The left and pro-Palestinian forces are portraying the death of at least ten activists on the highly publicized convoy as a "massacre," describing the victims as innocent humanitarians interested only in providing relief to the besieged people of Gaza.
The Israeli government is already saying it met with armed resistance when naval forces boarded the ship, and that they know the ship's passengers included those with known links to terrorist groups like Hamas and Al Qaeda.
Pro-Israel groups in this country have been silent, but that may be more a case of folks being out for the holiday weekend than prudence about speaking before all the facts are known.
I don't have the facts, but I'm guessing that the the truth lies somewhere between these two poles; unraveling exactly what happened, what provocations the Israeli troops met and to what extent they overreacted, will take a long time, and whatever truth is uncovered will be drowned out by the usual shouting from both sides that accompanies each new crisis in the Middle East.
The New York Times reported this morning that the attack "drew widespread international condemnation," and that the result was a "propaganda coup to Israel's foes, particularly the Hamas group that holds sway in Gaza, and damaged its ties to Turkey, one of its most important Muslim partners and the unofficial sponsor of the Gaza-bound convoy."
That much, I assume, should have been anticipated by the Israelis. There was plenty of warning that the flotilla would attempt to break through the Israeli blockade; pro-Gaza protestors have always been a mix of those with mostly humanitarian concerns, those whose focus is hostility to Israel and Hamas sympathizers who have no problem with the idea of armed conflict against the Jewish state.
One question that needs to be answered is whether Israeli leaders sufficiently planned for the kind of scenario that ultimately unfolded. If there really was a premeditated attack when Israeli troops tried to board the ship, weren't there other ways to handle it, given the certainty that the world would react negatively to the killing of those in an "aid flotilla?"
In the Times story, a leader of the Free Gaza Movement, said ""We never thought there would be any violence."
Well, for people who had no inkling the Israelis might attack, the flotilla supporters sure are making hay of the incident.
Defense minister Ehud Barak today asserted that "the sail's organizers and its participants are fully responsible." He also said that "there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," an assertion echoed in the days before the flotilla sailed by some Jewish groups here.
Well, "humanitarian crisis" is a matter of definition, but I suspect that line isn't going to help Israel one little bit, and will probably hurt, in a world that plainly believes Israel is using collective punishment against Gaza's residents.
The Left is already agreeing with Turkey and others that this was a premeditated attack against a purely humanitarian mission. Swallowing that without a healthy dose of skepticism seems as foolish to me as swallowing Barak's line that all the blame lies with those who were killed, and that Israel was entirely innocent in this matter.
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1. A large metal container in which garbage is disposed.
2. A slang term for an ugly woman who dresses provocatively to desperately attract men.
2. A slang term for an ugly woman who dresses provocatively to desperately attract men.
" That girl's not pretty, she's a dumpster!"
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the slang term for the term "cum dumpster," describing a loose woman; a woman who frequently pleasures men in the art of sex with out thinking of consequences or disease. synonyms - slut, whore, ho, skank, skeevatz, fucktoy.
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(v) to reclaim items that others wish to dispose of
It is extremely easy to dumpster bagels. However, the best find I've had while dumpstering is a ton of candy (Zours!) from a Blockbuster.
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someone that asks out your ex right after you break up with them
What a dumpster
po blu3hat Октобар 7, 2010
A large metal container used to collect 'trash' and also used as a food source and even a residence by some worthless, brainless, smelly homeless Bums, like Leroy Knevil. Knevil made the term 'dumpster' more widely known in his 2003 book titled, "My Dumpster...My Home!"
"Hey Mom....there goes that bum named Leroy!! He's the one that lives in a dumpster!!"
po Dumpster Boy Leroy Септембар 14, 2004
A dumpster is a crucial bottle-neck in a fight. It's the point during a battle in which things can either go incredibly well or horribly wrong. Tank smacking, boomer spewing, hunter pouncing, jockey riding wrong.
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Two minutes after the end of Sunday's "Mad Men" episode - filled with personal drama, some of it involving, Pete, Bob, Ted and Peggy - AMC, I presume sent out this press release.
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Rackspace Cloud Backup vs. Cloud Server Image Backups
Some users are used to taking snapshots of their Cloud Server as a backup. If you have a solution where you want to save the server's state or configuration, or want to keep gold copies of your system, then you can create an image backup of the server. Because it is an image of the whole server, there is really no control over the individual files. You cannot, say, recover a single file from that image, or update a single file. But, on the other hand, having a single file to manage (the image) allows you to easily recreate a new server with that identical configuration and state.
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