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An Overview of Actuarial Science and Stochastic Systems in Insurance Markets

Kidder 364

Speaker: Trang Bui

This talk consists of two parts. In the first part of the talk, we give an overview of the actuarial science career path and my own work experience as an educator and advisor for an actuarial science program. Following this, a mathematical point of view on actuarial science will be introduced. We consider a regime-switching model for an insurance market with two companies in the context of a non-zero-sum game. The corresponding system of integro-differential Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs equations is constructed and the numerical solution is approximated using the Markov chain approximation method. We conclude the talk with some directions for future work. Read more.


Journey to the Center of the Earth

Speaker: Gunther Uhlmann

We will consider the inverse problem of determining the sound speed or index of refraction of a medium by measuring the travel times of waves going through the medium. This problem arises in global seismology in an attempt to determine the inner structure of the Earth by measuring travel times of earthquakes. It also has several applications in optics and medical imaging among others.The problem can be recast as a geometric problem: Can one determine the Riemannian metric of a Riemannian manifold with boundary by measuring the distance function between boundary points? This is the boundary rigidity problem. We will survey some of the known results about this problem.No previous knowledge of differential geometry will be assumed. Read more.


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Kidder 350

Speaker: Weinan Wang

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Speaker: Daniel Eceizabarrena

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Speaker: Sara Pollock

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