As a master’s student, Chris Salahub completed a project focused on reducing the risk for cyclists on the busy streets of Zurich. His passion for leveraging data to solve real-world problems is what drew him back to the Faculty of Mathematics, where he previously earned a bachelor’s degree, to pursue a PhD in statistics.
“I like to think I’m a curious person,” said Jennifer Haid (BMath’04), a native of the ݮƵ Region. When she learned about ݮƵ’s Math Day from her high school math teacher, she decided to attend in hopes of learning about a career path that would leverage her aptitude for mathematics in the business world. “I remember watching a professor deliver a presentation about actuarial science and thinking two things: It was challenging, and I could do it,” she shared.
The International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics is the largest annual academic gathering in Actuarial Science.It has been hosted in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia since 1997. The IME congress is, for the first time, hosted online this yearon July 5-9, 2021due to COVID-19.
This is jointly hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Pennsylvania State University in the United States, Ulm University in Germany, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) in Australia.
Professor Ruodu Wang will deliver one of the five keynote speeches in this virtual congress. To learn more, please see .
Contratulations Ilia Sucholutskywinner of the ݮƵ Artificial Intelligent (AI)Institute Graduate Scholarship2021.
This scholarship was awarded to at least one PhD and oneMasters student from each of the University's six faculties; Applied Health Science, Arts, Engineering, Environment, Mathematics, and Science. This year, Ilia Sucholutsky was the PhD recipient representing the Faculty of Mathematics.
For more information about the scholarships, please visit ݮƵ.AI site.
Katia Naccarato has never shied away from exploring an unfamiliar path, hitting a dead end, and trying a different one. Before she enrolled in the Master of Actuarial Science (MActSc) program at the Faculty of Mathematics, she was laser-focused on pursuing a career in medicine. Her current trajectory looks nothing like she expected, but she’s confident she’s heading in the right direction.
Samantha Wallis’s enthusiasm for statistics is matched only by her longtime passion for visual arts. As she considers her path forward after graduating with a degree in mathematics, Wallis thinks about how to meld her two interests into a single career. While she hasn’t landed on a definitive answer, she has a strong hunch where she will go next.
Contratulations to our fourth year actuarial science students who won first place in the 2021 !
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Background information:
The formal name of the Convention is Actuarial Students’ National Association (ASNA). Every year hundreds of students across different Canadian Universities gather with the senior managers and directors of multiple well-known companies to learn about the future and the changes of the actuarial industry. Furthermore, it is a great opportunity for students to network with the employers to earn insights and potential offers. Hosted by the exact convention, the case competition (ASNA Case Competition) is an annual competition with its final round occurring during the days of the convention, with multiple professional actuaries being the judges. During the competition, we are asked to build essentially a brand new insurance product with some historic information of our clients and analyze how we should model and set its price.
GRADflix is an annual competition hosted by the University of ݮƵ’s Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA) in which graduate students create one-minute videos to describe their research. These one-minute videos act as an “elevator pitch” for graduate students to explain a complex idea to a non-specialist audience.
Our very own Luke Hagar (MMath in Statistics) has been selected as a finalist in this competition. His video titled “Beyond p-values: Sample size determination using Bayesian statistics” will be shared live along with the videos of the other finalists during this year’s showcase. This is the first time that the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science has been represented in the GRADflix competition.
The GRADflix 2021 Showcase is taking place virtually on Friday, January 29, 2021 from 3 to 5 PM (EST). After the finalists’ videos are shown live, the winners will be announced, and attendees can vote on the People’s Choice prize winner. The event will be streamed live on the GSPA YouTube channel and attendees can register online.
Please attend to show your support of Luke!
In 2020, Mary Hardywas recognized for her dedication and contributions to the by being awarded their . Her award included the following annotations:
“In recognition of her endless dedication to the advancement of the actuarial profession.”
“As a selfless individual, willing to work without recognition, she is a role model for all who have worked with her”
To learn more about about the award andpast recipients, pleasevisit the .
Chao Qian is preparing for the trading environment of the future. More than 60 percent of stock volume is attributed to algorithmic trading, but older generations of traders have never learned to code. “In the future, I expect that everyone will need to be able to code and be comfortable with AI and machine learning,” he affirmed. “Thanks to the Masters of Quantitative Finance (MQF) program, I will be ready.”