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Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant · Oct 21, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min

Physicist to Quant and AI - Igor Halperin

Send us Fan Mail Learn about financial AI expert, Igor Halperin's journey from the Soviet Union to physics and finally quantitative finance in the US. A great discussion on why many physists choose to go into quantitative finance, the positive and negative impacts of LLMs, and some perspectives on careers. Igor Halperin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-halperin-092175a/ YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/J7O6Scnc5NA Igor's Textbook: https://amzn.to/42IGAGh Join the quant community in Dallas, Texas April 10th at SMU! Quaint Quant Conference - 2026 Learn and network from a close knit quant community! Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail

Learn about financial AI expert, Igor Halperin's journey from the Soviet Union to physics and finally quantitative finance in the US. A great discussion on why many physists choose to go into quantitative finance, the positive and negative impacts of LLMs, and some perspectives on careers.

Igor Halperin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-halperin-092175a/


YouTube Version:

https://youtu.be/J7O6Scnc5NA


Igor's Textbook:

https://amzn.to/42IGAGh

Join the quant community in Dallas, Texas April 10th at SMU!

Quaint Quant Conference - 2026
Learn and network from a close knit quant community!

Support the show

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