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"Confessions of a Lapsed Physicist"

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

1:30 - 2:30 pm

Building 32, Room 123

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Ever wonder what happens if you leave the Ivory Tower for the hustle and bustle of Wall Street?

Michael Bos, Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, will talk about how a quantitative finance department works at a major investment bank, the kinds of opportunities and challenges that await physicists (and other scientists or engineers) who take the plunge, and how life on the Street differs from life in Academia.

Michael Bos, Ph.D.

Michael Bos, Ph.D.

Managing Director – Lehman Brothers

Michael Bos is Managing Director, Head of Quantitative Research at Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank. He joined Lehman in 1993.  Prior to that he held research positions in Theoretical Physics at Columbia University and UCLA. Michael has undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands), and a Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. (class of 1988).