Seminar (Zurich) - Felix Zumstein - Python in Quantitative Finance

This will be a free Zurich event - special thanks to Prof. Markus Leippold and University of Zurich for providing us with the venue and for Swati Mital for organising. The talk will be at 7.00pm Zurich time. Students, academics and professionals are all welcome to attend.

Full title: Python in Quantitative Finance

Abstract: Felix will demonstrate how to use Python and Excel to develop applications related to Quantitative Finance, for example, portfolio optimisation and derivative pricing. Some prior knowledge of scripting languages is assumed.

Bio

Felix Zumstein is CEO of Zoomer Analytics. Zoomer Analytics provides customized solutions for quant finance and other scientific areas. Our speciality is the connection of Microsoft Excel with Python, a powerful yet easy to use programming language that is very well suited for numerical analysis. We also provide professional support for our open-source solution http://xlwings.org