The Imperial Clinical Trials Unit have an exciting opportunity to undertake an NIHR funded internship at Imperial Clinical Trials Unit, London.
The statistics internship is suitable for those coming to the end of their second or third year, who have an interest in a career in healthcare research.
The internship is paid (£20.82 per hour, inclusive of holiday pay), and will run for 8 weeks. Additional funding of up to £1000 is available for accommodation and travel expenses.
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.
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.
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Quick on the draw: high-frequency trading in the Wild West of cryptocurrency limit order-book markets
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.