The Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES) and its academic and industry partners recognize the importance of building and mobilizing students’ social connections. Landing a job or finding that next opportunity requires expanding relationships with peers and mentors.
Each semester, CoFES hosts several guest lectures where students learn from researchers and employers in the financial services sector, statistical analysis, quantitative finance, investment banking, private equity, insurance risk management, AI and systematic investing.
Spring 2025 Guest Lectures
April 7
Statistical Issues in the Detection & Attribution of Climate Impacts
Michael Weylandt
Assistant Professor
Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics
Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College
City University of New York (CUNY)
April 8
Finding Success in Finance
Launching Your Career, Navigating Markets and Optimizing Portfolios with AI
Evan Troop
CEO, CIO
Troop Capital Management (TCM)
Cody Davis
Field Engineering Manager
Databricks
April 10
The Fed, Interest Rates and Deregulation: 2008 Déjà u?
Lynn Lewis
Retired
Owner, Green Street Advisors, Inc.
For over two decades, CoFES has collaborated with many academic and industry partners to develop prominent research pipelines and provide students with simulated training environments, internship opportunities, and real-world projects where they can apply their computational, statistical and mathematical techniques to understand the health of an economy and its market environments.
CoFES events and guest lectures are listed on the home page at cofes.rice.edu. Corporate community members interested in supporting CoFES’s efforts in research and education should email cofes@rice.edu.
- Shawn Hutchins, Communications and Marketing Specialist
