Dr. Sreekantan will tell his story, from a Physics PhD earned in the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, to Houston to Minneapolis and back to Austin, where he is now with RGM Advisors LLC, a proprietary trading firm that applies scientific methods and computing power to trading in multiple asset classes around the world. Dr. Sreekantan's talk will give students a feel for the hoops that one has to jump through to survive outside academia and in the financial industry.