Saïd Business School is recruiting student ambassadors to deliver a suite of short summer courses for ambitious young learners. A range of roles are available across the summer, with accommodation in Oxford provided. 

Application deadline: Wednesday 30 April, 13:00. Interviews will take place via Teams in early May.

Full details are available here.

Bath logoThe university of Bath have a 3.5 year PhD studentship opportunity available.

Topic: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Evaporating Droplets (open to UK, EU and Overseas Applicants)

OPH LogoThe Nuffield Department of Population Health have an exciting opportunity for a health data scientist to work on a disease of poverty and big data. This role would suit a strong MMath student due to finish their studies this year.

Maths instituteFridays@2 is back for Trinity Term! Starting in week 1 with a session on dealing with exam anxiety.

With Elizabeth's Fraser's impenetrable, often made up lyrics, their 'ethereal' sound and a preference for privacy, the Cocteau Twins certainly cracked it when it came to mystery. Mind you, your Song of the Week editor once saw them having an argument on a London Underground train. Rock n' Roll.

Still, this is very uplifting don't you think? Also check out their cover of Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren (as This Mortal Coil), a Song of the Week from a long, long time ago.

Thu, 15 May 2025
14:00

Quick on the draw: high-frequency trading in the Wild West of cryptocurrency limit order-book markets

Sam Howison
(Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford))
Abstract

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have only recently become a significant part of the financial landscape. Many billions of dollars are now traded daily on limit order-book markets such as Binance, and these are probably among the most open, liquid and transparent markets there are. They therefore make an interesting platform from which to investigate myriad questions to do with market microstructure. I shall talk about a few of these, including live-trading experiments to investigate the difference between on-paper strategy analysis (typical in the academic literature) and actual trading outcomes. I shall also mention very recent work on the new Hyperliquid exchange which runs on a blockchain basis, showing how to use this architecture to obtain datasets of an unprecendented level of granularity. This is joint work with Jakob Albers, Mihai Cucuringu and Alex Shestopaloff.

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