Making the (Pizza) Dough | T1W8 Newsletter
Posted on 21st November 2022
We know how much the society loves Pizza, so we're making some on Saturday! We also have an online talk from our sponsor Accenture and a DCS careers event: both on Wednesday. For any 2nd years that are finding Algorithms quite a pain, we'll be doing a revision session on Saturday!
Our server room raid last week was ... interesting. Two of the (unused) servers did not come of the rack easily and we had to get off with the rails attached! We did at least get two old servers running, though one never booted )':.
⚡ Call for Lightning Talk Speakers
🕝 Wed 30 Nov 2:30pm - 4pm 📍 OC0.03
Got a CS topic you are interested in? Want to share it with us? Consider giving a lightning talk! It can be on anything academic, programming, a tutorial, or some cool side-project!
(With your permission) we'll be uploading them to our YouTube channel, which recently got blessed by the YouTube algorithm: one of our lightning talks got almost 50k views! (though we get more like a few hundred on average)
Interested? Get in touch! You can contact us by email, or drop any of us a DM on Discord.
🍔 Weekly Pub Meal W8
🕖 Mon 21 Nov 7pm - 9pm 📍 Phantom Coach
We'll be in the Coach this week! I'm sure so food might make the coursework feel better 👀
🎤 Industry Talk: An insight to Accenture and Future Tech Trends
🕝 Wed 23 Nov 2:30pm - 3:30pm 📍 Online
Join us on Wednesday at 2:30pm to hear about some of the exciting work Accenture are doing with cutting-edge technologies, and find out about their vision of technology for the future. There'll also be a chance to gain insight into Accenture as a company, find out about the business and life there, and hear about internships and grad schemes they have open.
The talk will take place on Teams, and we'll distribute the link on Wednesday on our Discord.
DCS Event: Careers in Tech
🕔 Wed 23 Nov 5pm - 8pm 📍 Department of Computer Science
Organized by the department. Employer speed talks followed by networking and informal Q&A. Attendees include EY, Playground Games, Just Eat, Amniosec, Expedia and a few others to be confirmed.
Sign up on MyAdvantage
🎮 Friday Night Gaming W8
🕖 Fri 25 Nov 7pm - 11:59pm 📍 Department of Computer Science
You better have your dancing shoes on, we're gonna have a Just Dance! Join us Friday for a night of fun! With a ton of games and consoles, plus our VR setup.
🍕Pizza Making @ The Oaks
🕚 Sat 26 Nov 11am - 2pm 📍 The Oaks
We'll be making use of our sponsor's (The Oaks) kitchen space to make the society's favourite food: Pizza! We will provide dough, sauce, cheese and some toppings -- feel free to bring your own!
Due to cooking time, we'll have to limit attendance to 20. A signup form will be posted on Discord and Instagram on Tuesday.
Revision: Algorithms Class Test
🕝 Sat 26 Nov 2:30pm - 4:30pm 📍 Department of Computer Science
Preparing for the class test? We're running a revision session to help run through the content.
I'm sure you can't tell I wrote this in half an hour, thanks automation (what?! triple birthday celebration weekends are exhausting)
-- Owen [he/him]
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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