Welcome to 2011-12  SPRING SEMESTER  coming up: roundtables with faculty, employers, former students and more, forecasting competition, Bloomberg terminal workshop, Excel, SAS, Stata workshops, Voices of Experience Evening and more.

ODE President  Matt Kuchtyak mkuchtya@eden.rutgers.edu   Vice-President  Steven Cao scao@eden.rutgers.edu

Check back often for updates. If you are joining as a full or associate member, join the ODE Sakai site for a link to the application form and for emailed updates.  Go to https://sakai.rutgers.edu      login with netid, click on membership and search for
ODE - International Economics Honor Society        or try this url:         https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/site/9b1f2295-92f1-4ea2-b132-9defd3f6f6e0
If you are already a member, make sure you are a member of the sakai site to receive emails.

Spring Semester 2012 (note that roundtable and other meetings are NOT every Friday, but rather periodically with emailed notification to members). 

held ODE ROUNDTABLE  Nielsen Bases, a discussion and recruting session with Adwaita Bhagwat, Dwight green and William Kutcher of Nielsen. Friday February 10, 2pm, 3rd floor libarary NJ Hall.

held BLOOMBERG TERMINAL SESSION with Viraj Pandya Friday 2/24

held ODE ROUNDTABLE A discussion with Professor Roger Klein, a most unbiased econometrician.  Friday 3/2 2-3pm 3rd floor library NJ Hall. Professor Klein has been an essential part of the lives of students working on honors theses. He was a member of the economics groups at Bellcore and Bell Labs before joining the Rutgers Economics department. He has written on developing estimators and tests for semiparametric models, the role of estimation risk in portfolio decisions, decision theory, and small-sigma asymptotics. 

held FINANCE ROUND TABLE Friday 3/23/3-4pm 3rd floor library NJ Hall   Join Jagan Pisharath and Zheng Shao for an interesting discussion of careers and graduate study  in finance. Jagan Graduated in 2007 and did a rotation in iBanking followed by another in private equity. He is completing his first year in the Wharton MBA program. Zheng has been at Societe generale and will be attending the MIT Sloan school masters in finance program in the fall.Great chance to hear the inside story on finance, grad school, and life after college. Hope to see all of you.  

held FORECASTING COMPETITION SPRING 2012 n excellent effort by everyone and by far the best work of the last several years, 

and very close results.

The ODE Macroeconomic Forecasting Competition provided a short but intense, competitive, team learning environment for ODE members 

who participated. It helps students expand their knowledge of applied macroeconomics and forecasting, as well as develop presentation and 

speaking skills. In addition, it adds to a student's resume and provide an important talking point on job interviews.

held ODE ROUNDTABLE - QUANTS AND ECONOMETRICIANS - FRI APRIL 6, 2PM Interested in Wall Street? Finance? Numbers? Money? 
Statistics? Law suits?  Join Paul Huzarski, Bank of America, Barry Ickow, Black 
Rock, and Supreet Singh, the Analysis Group, for a conversation about 
quantitative economics and finance. 

Friday April 6, 2-3 pm 3rd floor library, NJ 
Hall. Cookies, jelly beans, chocolate bunnies. Still to come this semester:

VOICES OF EXPERIENCE EVENING Friday April 27, 7:30-9pm, 3rd floor library NJ Hall RSVP - here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDJPWlBGcFF4N1hMZGl4UjJpelZqemc6MQ

Rutgers Day, Saturday April 28, 10-4pm, Voorhee4s mall - use SignUp on ODE sakai site to volunteer some time

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Fall Semester 2011 (note that roundtable and other meetings are NOT every Friday, but rather periodically with emailed notification to members).

held ODE ROUNDTABLE - What I Did Last Summer - Students share their work, internship, and learning experiences and offer tips on jobs and careers.  Friday September 9, 3pm

held ODE ROUNDTABLE - Job Search and Interview Tips from the Experts (Other Students). - bring resumes, ideas, questions.Prepare for the Business and Liberal Arts Career Day 10/21.   Pizza provided.Friday October 14, 3pm

held ODE ROUNDTABLE - Macro Policy Questions and Answers - faculty and student discussion of current macro conditions and policy alternatives.Friday October 21, 3pm NJ Hall Library

held ODE ROUNDTABLE - Faculty Roundtable with Professor Hiroki Tsurumi - learn what makes an Econ Professor Tick .Friday October 28, 3pm NJ Hall Library

held ODE ROUNDTABLE - Faculty Roundtable with Professor Jennifer Hunt - The Labors of a Labor Economist .Friday November 11, 3:30 pm **note slighly later start time - time to eat some pizza beforehand**  NJ Hall Library

ODE ROUNDTABLE - Roundtable and Information (recruiting) session - Life at the Kansas City Fed - Michael Connelly .Friday November 18, 3pm NJ Hall Library

Up Coming - more faculty roundtable discussions, career sessions, panel discussions on job search, skill sessions on excel, stata, sas, matlab, bloomberg, forecasting competition, voices of experience reunion and more.

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TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT ODE DID LAST SEMESTER , below

Spring Semester 2011  NOTE meetings are scheduled periodically, with notices emailed. They DO NOT occur every Friday.

Voices of Experience Evening, Friday, April 29, 7:30-9pm, 3rd floor Libarary, NJ Hall. Meet real live former students, find out their secrets for sucess, what they did and what they would have done differently at Rutgers, network, find true love.  Casual/business casual. Refreshments. Membership certificates awarded as well.  Please respond here even if you cannot make the event.

Graduation Honors Cords are available at no charge to graduating senior FULL members who have paid the national dues (see Ms. Goodstein in economcis office - 202 NJ Hall - to do this). Please complete the following form to sign up for a cord:  click here

Roundtable on Job/Internship search - Friday 4/22 3pm 3rd floor library NJ Hall - bring ideas, questions, and learn from, and perhaps teach classmates. organized by Supreet Singh (a sucessful job searcher).

held   Grad Schools Roundtable - Friday April 8 3-4pm 3rd floor library NJ Hall - everything (at least some) you wanted to know about graduate schoool in business, quantitative finance, economics, public policy, law, operations research, human resource management and more.

held   Bloomberg Terminal Demo Additional sessions 4/8 and 4/15.  Led by Viraj Pandya, by signup only (click on signup on the ODE Sakai site)

held   Forecasting Competition  
Great job by everyone and thanks for the effort.
RESULTS:
1st Place:  Keynesians
2nd Place: Monetarists, Classicals  (tied)
3rd Place: Austrians
4th Place: Supply-Siders

The ODE Macroeconomic Forecasting Competition will provide a short but intense, competitive, team learning environment for ODE members who participate. It will help students expand their knowledge of applied macroeconomics and forecasting, as well as develop presentation and speaking skills. In addition, it will add to a student's resume and provide an important talking point on job interviews. The competition will be limited to full members and associate members of ODE at Rutgers New Brunswick
DATES   Initial Meeting and Workshop – Sunday March 27, 2-4 pm.      Conclusion and Presentations Sunday April 17, 2-4pm

held   Economics, Politics, Common Stock and Life. A Roundtable discussion with Professor Blair. Friday March 4, 3-4pm, 3rd floor library, New Jersey Hall

held   Bloomberg Terminal Demo Friday Feb 25 and Friday March 4 1pm and 2pm. Led by Steven Cao, by signup only (click on signup on the ODE Sakai site.

Coming this Spring - Advanced Excel bootcamp, A taste of SAS, Matlab, Fred, Forecasting Competition, Voices of Experience, Rutgers Day and more.

held WANT A JOB or INTERNSHIP  (EVER)? LIKE PIZZA? COME this Thursday 2/3 6:30-7:30 pm 3rd floor Library NJ Hall. Info session and discussion on J&J's Finance Leadership Development Program and Co-Ops/Internships with Aaron Margevich, Rutgers Econ grad, 2009. Learn the steps for success, find out if J&J is for you (and if you are for J&J), NETWORK.  Excellent, perhaps life-changing opportunity to learn about great program (Aaron graduated Rutgers econ about 2-3 years ago). Even if not yet in the job market, a chance to find out what employers want, and what skills worked for Aaron. Also, internship and co-op opportunities.  Pizza, refreshments as well.  WE NEED MORE MEMBERS TO ATTEND. (come late, leave early if you must) - Extremely casual dress is ok (shoes please)

held THINKING OF GRAD SCHOOL? JOBS? PH.D.? MBA?QUANTITATIVE FINANCE?   -      Friday 2/4 3pm   3rd floor library NJ Hall -  A discussion with Paul Huzarski on economics, quantitative finance, graduate school and life. Paul is enormously interesting having done his undergrad econ degree at Rutgers, then had a number of interesting after-college jobs for a few years, then he came back to get both an MBA in Quantitative Finance and work towards his Ph.D. in economics. This June he will assume a position with a major financial services firm in quant finance.
Refreshments, come late, leave early if you must, but don't miss this. casual dress is ok

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Fall Semester 2010

held WE (DON'T) KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER - FRIDAY 10/17 2PM-3PM 3RD FLOOR LIBRARY NJ HALL
First meeting of the year, don't miss it (and the pizza). Members chat about their summer work and other experiences. Get ideas for next summer, get leads for job search, tips on search and successful internships and job strategies, network. We will also reform the executive board for ODE to help run it

canceled  KPMG INFO SESSION

held  Friday 10/8 - Roundtable -What Can You Do With a Rutgers Degree? A roundtable discussion with Professor Jeffrey Rubin, Rutgers College class of 1971 and Professor of Economics. Friday 10/8, 3pm, 3rd floor library, NJ Hall. 1 hour. come late, leave early but come, Refreshments (and interesting conversation with an interesting economist). Dress -quite casual (shoes please).

held  Friday 10/15 Roundtable - Double Header - 1. William Kan, Global Wealth Management, Merrill Lynch, Oakland California (and  Rutgers College 1991, Phi Beta Kappa). Bill began his Wall Street career at Kidder Peabody after working at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. In 2001, Bill earned his MBA from Columbia Business School and earned his CFA  and 2 Jonathan Leibling, MA Quantitative Finance, UC Berkeley, Rutgers 2009 and Intern at Standard and Poor's

held  Friday 10/22 Careers in Financial Planning with Francesco G. Di Meglio, Financial Representative & College Unit Director, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network  3pm  3rd floor library, NJ Hall ,

held  Friday 10/29 Career and Internship Opportunities in International Factoring 3pm  3rd floor library, NJ Hall , Ken Moyle, Executive Vice President (and a Rutgers graduate), and Claire Hennig of  Coface North America are coming to talk about internship and job opportunities and the nature of their business to business services dealing with global trade receivables management, protection, finance and ratings. Learn what factoring is, and about job opportunities.

held  Friday 11/12 3pm  Targets College Careers Information Session with Amanda Abney, Sr. Field Campus Recruiter

Friday 11/19 Roundtable with Professor Eugene White. One of the world's leading experts on U.S. and European Monetary and Banking History. The author of numerous articles and books and is an associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor White has spoken at numerous federal Reserve conferences and testified before Congress on financial and banking matters. An excellent opportunity to meet a major scholar (who has engaged undergraduates in his research).

Friday 12/3 Economics in the Real World, A Discussion with John-Claude Hallak, busienss owner and Rutgers College 1985

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More on ODE
BACKGROUND. ODE is one of the largest academic honor societies in the world, dating back to 1915. The Theta chapter at Rutgers University in New Brunswick was chartered in 1969. In addition to fostering closer ties between students and faculty and enriching and expanding its members’ knowledge of economics, ODE also provides international recognition of outstanding academic achievement in economics, awards a number of prizes for outstanding contributions, and provides opportunities to present papers at annual meetings and publish in The American Economist, the Journal of Omicron Delta Epsilon.

ELIGIBILITY. To be considered for FULL membership, students must have a strong interest in economics and completed at least 12 credits of economics courses (4 courses), and have a B+ (3.4) average in economics and a B average (3.0) overall.  One need not be an economics major or minor. ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP in the local Theta chapter is possible for students who have not yet satisfied some of the requirements but wish to participate in the activities of ODE.

APPLICATION.Click on the How to Join link at the top of the page and complete the online application found on the Skai site for ODE 2010-11. You will be notified via e-mail within a week about your acceptance. FULL MEMBERSHIP APPLICANTS will then complete and submit the national application form along with a check for $32 for the national dues. Membership is for life (no annual dues) and includes a one-year subscription to The American Economist journal. An optional, extra cost key and pin are available through the national organization as well. Associate Membership has no specific requirements or fee.

ACTIVITIES. ODE sponsors a series of informal brown bag luncheon roundtables with faculty, focused on economic policy issues. In the past these have included discussions of alleged discrimination in professional sports, the justification for public support of higher education, the economics of crime, etc. In mid to late fall, there is a new-member induction. Each year, there is a Voices of Experience evening in which alumni return and discuss their experiences, provide advice, and discuss career issues with ODE members. Outings to the Fed, the New York Stock Exchange and other relevant destinations have been organized in the past. ODE also sponsors a macroeconomic forecasting competition.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.  Neil Sheflin sheflin@rci.rutgers.edu or the main economics office 732-932-7363 and the national organization site http://www.omicrondeltaepsilon.org/