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Mon 23 Jan 2023Lightning Talks, Pub Crawl, DCS's Game Jam, what's not to love?
And I'm back! I'm sure you missed these standard newsletters after whatever last week's was. We've got some cool stuff this week: the start of DCS's two-week game jam, and our lightning talks shortly after the game jam's keynote.
We are also just under two weeks away from our membership cut-off to vote in our upcoming elections, so get yourself and your friends registered. If you are receiving this by email, congrats, you are signed up!
Only a couple more things to pester you about: our server infrastructure is still under maintenance (who knew a bunch of mostly worryingly old servers had problems?), and WASD 2023 has a released schedule!
Without further ado, our newsle- wait, a sponsor spot?!
A message from our sponsor, Qube Research Technologies
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We 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 in London.
To find out more and apply to one of the 3 tracks mentioned above, visit our Internships (12 weeks) & Industrial Placements (4/6/12 months) or Graduate careers page. The salary is £65k (pro-rata if internship/placement) and recruitment is rolling until all spots are filled. Find out more on the linked PDF, and if you have any questions, please email campus@qube-rt.com.
🍔 Weekly Pub Meal W3
🕡 Mon 23 Jan 6:30pm - 9pm 📍 Phantom Coach
The Phantom Coach is now back to full price, but even so, it's a good pub. So come along and do some socializing.
☕ CompCafé W3
🕔 Tue 24 Jan 5pm - 9pm 📍 CS0.01
Snacks. Revision. People. Whether you've got a deadline to meet, need help on a topic, or just want some company - join us!
⚙️ DCS Game Jam Talk & Start
🕑 Wed 25 Jan 2pm - 3pm 📍 CS1.04
DCS presents... The Great Warwick Game Jam! 🍓
Create a game as an individual or team and learn tricks of the trade from real game developers! It’s a great opportunity to try something new and creative, and there are even some cash prizes available!
Come along to the opening keynote on Wednesday of Week 3 (2pm CS1.04). All welcome! If that sounds like your jam (pun intended), then sign up here.
There will also be an all day jam session in a couple of weekends (Sat wk 4) and a closing showcase in the Esports Centre (Wed wk 5).
⚡Lightning Talks
🕓 Wed 25 Jan 4pm - 5pm 📍 MB0.07
We'll have three short talks covering all manner of topics!
- What's the Time? - Joel C
- The Worst Python Techniques You Might Get Away With - Omichron
- And the return of Karaoke Talks! - The speaker will have never seen the prepared slides, hopefully comedy will ensue.
See our previous talks on YouTube. If you want to get involved in future talks, contact us on Discord or email!
🎮 Friday Night Gaming W3
🕖 Fri 27 Jan 7pm - 11:59pm 📍 Department of Computer Science
Gaming. Consoles. VR. Pizza (sometimes free). Our new VR headset should make an appearance this time!
🗳️ One week until AGM Membership Cut-off
🕖 Fri 27 Jan 7pm - 9pm 📍 warwicksu.com/societies-sports/societies/computing
You must be a member in a week's time to vote in our Exec Elections, which will be on Friday wk 6 (17 Feb).
➡️ Become a member here ⬅️
If you want to run in the elections, contact our returning officer on Discord (Keegan#9109) or email.
Find more information on the elections here
🍻 Leam Pub Crawl
🕡 Sat 28 Jan 6:30pm - Late 📍 Coventry
We'll be crawling all over Leamington! Join us in T-Bar before 7:30pm or around the Upper Parade after ~8pm.
Details of the schedule will be released shortly, but it will be similar to our last pub crawl.
Congrats if you got this far, we don't have stats on it, but I can confidently say you are, of course, the #1 member of the society.
-- Owen [he/him]
Links: 💬 Discord | 📷 Instagram | 🎟️ Join the Society
Sponsors
The society relies on sponsorship to fund events, infrastructure, and all that free pizza you all love so much, so check them out!
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.
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…
To find out more and apply to one of the 3 tracks mentioned above, visit our Internships & Industrial Placements or Graduate careers page.
If you have any questions, please email campus@qube-rt.com
G-Research
G-Research is Europe’s leading quantitative finance research firm. We hire the brightest minds in the world to tackle some of the biggest questions in finance. We pair this expertise with machine learning, big data, and some of the most advanced technology available to predict movements in financial markets.
Join us and you’ll explore complex challenges with some of the world’s smartest people in an open and informal environment. We are all working towards achieving our long-term goal: human ingenuity limited only by the speed of thought.
To find out more about the opportunities G-Research have to offer, visit gresearch.co.uk.
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