Research Seminar Series

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You are warmly invited to attend the following presentations as part of the Department of Actuarial Studies 2008 Seminar Series.

Unless otherwise indicated, the location will be E4A, Seminar Room 523 between 4pm to 5pm.

Date	Title	Speaker(s)
22 Feb 2008*	The Institute's Support of Research, and Views from within Macquarie	Dr Ron Murnain
19 March 2008	The health cost of bicycle helmet legislation	Prof Piet de Jong
2 April 2008	Actuarial Bloopers and other interesting challenges......	John Wylie
16 April 2008	The OTHER Sub-prime Lending Crisis: the NSW Homefund Lending Scheme	Shauna Ferris
30 April 2008	Higher moments of annuities under i.i.d. interest rates	Jim Farmer
9 July 2008	A Cox Process with Log - Normal Intensity	Dr Sankarshan Basu
13 August 2008	Reserve Allocation in Insurance	Weihao Choo
27 August 2008	Option Pricing When the Regime-Switching Risk is Priced	Dr Tak Kuen (Ken) Siu
10 September 2008	Potential Areas for Research in General Insurance	David Koob, Rosi Winn & Andy White
24 September 2008	Valuing Barrier Options using PDE's and the Method of Images	Timothy Kyng
8 October 2008	Model risk in claims reserving within Tweedie's compound Poisson models	Dr. Pavel V. Shevchenko
12 November 2008	Pitfalls in Prediction: Bootstrapping GLMs for Reserving	Angela Tong
1 December 2008^#	Actuarial Education and Research in North America: A Personal Perspective	Professor Elias Shiu

_{*This seminar will be held at 3pm}
_{^#This seminar will be held at 2.30pm}