The Top 6 Events happening in Week 9 | T1W9 Newsletter

Mon 28 Nov 2022

The Top 10 Events happening in Week 9, you won't believe Number 7!

But seriously, Lightning Talks and CTFs are pretty cool!

I know everyone gets busy around this time of term, but we've accidentally got you a busy week! We have our 2nd batch of Lighting Talks on some fun topics, and the CTF just before it from one of our lovely sponsors: Nettitude. What a busy Wednesday!

On the 1st of December (terrifyingly close, I know), Advent of Code starts! It's one of our favourite programming challenges of the year.

🧪 ChemCafe: Python Help Session

🕔 Mon 28 Nov 5pm - 7pm 📍 B2.01
In collaboration with ChemSoc, we're going to help Chemistry students out with some Python!

🍔 Weekly Pub Meal W9

🕖 Mon 28 Nov 7pm - 9pm 📍 Dirty Duck
Celebrate the start of the second last week with a meal and some chat!

🚩 Nettitude Talk and CTF

🕜 Wed 30 Nov 1:30pm - 5pm 📍 IMC2.46
There'll be an "Intro to Pentesting" talk by Nettitude, followed by the CTF. The CTF will be 2-4 hours, and has Amazon vouchers and Red Team Field Manuals as prizes!

A Kali Linux VM or similar is recommended, and only Cyber students have access to IMC, so ping Exec on Discord if you need to get in.

⚡Lightning Talks

🕔 Wed 30 Nov 5pm - 6:30pm 📍 MB0.07
Three short student talks covering a variety of topics!

See more info about these talks on our website and our previous talks on YouTube

Note: this was moved later to avoid the CTF, we are aiming to start when the CTF ends, but we will see how that aligns.

🗓️Advent of Code

🕙 Thu 1 Dec 10am - 11pm 📍 Online
An advent calendar of Coding Challenges! They'll start easy and get harder, see how far you get. Use this as an opportunity to sharpen your programming skills, or maybe learn a new language....

Every year, we have good fun with this across the society, just don't try to do the whole thing in SQL.

For more information, see their website or our primer from two years ago

🎮 Friday Night Gaming W9

🕖 Fri 2 Dec 7pm - 11:59pm 📍 Department of Computer Science
Join us Friday for a night of fun! With a ton of games and consoles, plus our VR setup.

I hope we are all enjoying coursework season, and I hope none of you have put up your Christmas decorations yet 👀

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Sponsors

The society relies on sponsorship to fund events, infrastructure, and all that free pizza you all love so much, so go check out our three sponsors we have lined up for this academic year:

Student Roost - The Oaks
The Oaks is a student accommodation in Coventry with more brand new rooms for 2022. Situated less than a 10-minute walk from the University of Warwick and the only purpose-built student accommodation next to Warwick’s 750-acre main campus on the outskirts of Coventry, the accommodation is a popular choice among Warwick students. The Oaks Coventry combines the best of campus living within studio and en-suite rooms and easy transport links to and from nearby places of interest Coventry, Warwick, and Leamington Spa. Sound good? Book early to avoid disappointment for next year, or if you're still looking for a place for this year, The Oaks still have rooms available, including their new en-suite rooms for only £159pw! Find out more at https://www.studentroost.co.uk/locations/coventry/the-oaks.

Nettitude
Founded in 2003, Nettitude is an award-winning global provider of cybersecurity services, bringing innovative thought leadership to the cybersecurity marketplace. Through their research and innovation centres, they provide threat led services that span technical assurance, consulting and managed detection and response offerings. Considering a career in Cyber Security? They're looking for deeply passionate and enthusiastic people with a meddlesome nature and self-starting, driven attitude to join the Accelerator Program. Visit https://www.nettitude.com/ to find out more, or contact the team at recruitment@nettitude.com.

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT)
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative and innovative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges.

We strongly believe that long-term investment into our people is critical to our future success and distinctive culture, as demonstrated by our low turnover in staff and continuous growth. We are proud of our exceptionally talented, collaborative and diverse teams, and now are looking to add motivated, intellectually curious STEM students and graduates with entrepreneurial spirit to our team. We have a number of internship, industrial placement and graduate roles across Software Engineering, Data Engineering & Analytics and Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, all within our amazing new office that looks out over London.

We are one of the best performing and fastest growing multi-strat quant hedge funds over the last couple years and we are just getting started…

Our roles will be live by mid-November but in the meantime, contact our team to find out more at campus@qube-rt.com

Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, they offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Their 710,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. They embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for their clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit them at https://accenture.com/.

Find out more at https://uwcs.co.uk/sponsors