I know it's not very likely, but is there anywhere to pick up quant books around Canary Wharf?

I don't know much about the Stats department, but the probability group in the Maths department ranks amongst the best in the world.....

<t>Of course, you may need to handle this diplomatically w.r.t. your thesis supervisor, but how about contacting an academic expert in CDO at another university and having a chat with them? They probably have a number of interesting problems, and might be happy to get someone to work on one of them,...

In my (limited) experience, I'd say you're worrying too much - I think the credit check is just to see if you've been in *big* trouble - court judgements, bankruptcy. On the other hand, perhaps the banks like to employ young guys who really need the money to clear debts!

<t>Bhutes, Don't know if you are aware, there's a nice way to compute the probability of a general diffusion of the hitting one of two distinct points - via what is effectively a reparameterisation of the diffusion in terms what's called speed and scale. This only works in the case of a one-dimensio...

dont need doob surely, just condition upon first move, formulate difference equation, etc...

<t>Toronto, Here's a nice method. Consider the sample space generated by the outcomes of the first three rolls of a die. We can partition these outcomes into {T, HT, HHT, HHH}. Defininge = E[Tosses until HHH]. we can now condition upon the events in the partition in the following way:e = E[Tosses un...

<t>Player, The only question I've heard about a double sided coin is the following:Take a bag containing 999 normal coins and one double headed coin. Pick one coin at random and flip it 10 times. If the 10 flips all resulted in heads, what's the probability the coin you chose is double headed? NB1 M...

what do you mean by 'the exact same spot higher'?!?!

<t>I've heard rumours of this occuring in the UK, but don't know if it's true: is it the case that when graduates apply for jobs in the banking industry, it is standard procedure to check their credit rating to see if they've been paying their Visa bill on time etc?If so, any opinions on whether thi...

I have four gmail addresses to give away if anyone's interested, particularly in exchange for a nice quant analyst job in london...

Nobody out there that could offer an opinion?

Does anyone have any opinions on the Barclays Capital milkround-type scheme for 'quantitative associates'? Is this a new thing? It's the first structured program I've seen for those with quantitative PhDs and looks very interesting. Any information would be much appreciated..

<t>Not deliberately trying to annoy Nsande, but my prediction is more or less identical:A: Spain, PortugalB: France, EnglandC: Italy, DenmarkD: Czech, HollandQ1: England win v SpainQ2: France win v PortugalQ3: Italy win v HollandQ4: Denmark win v CzechS1: Italy win v EnglandS2: France win v DenmarkF...

<t>Following on from the England - Japan thread, how about a little prediction game for us all? Predict the winner and runner up of each group, then the winners of each QF, SF and F.The winner will receive the respect and adoration of his peers. Group APortugalGreeceSpainRussiaGroup BFranceEngland S...