The Institute is delighted to host Scott Farris as our special guest speaker today. Scott is Research Manager at the State Farm Research and Development Center, located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He leads a team of two-dozen actuarial professionals and student interns who work on pricing and reserving models and research on new analytical methods. A veteran employee of nearly 30 years, Scott joined Continue reading “Guest Lecture – Scott Farris”
Month: July 2010
Visiting Delegation from Singapore
Today the Institute hosted a visit by Mr. Christopher Chen and Mr. Ng Kai Koon, with of Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority, and Professor Yeow Meng Chee, Head of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Technical University (NTU), Singapore to discuss the creation of an Analytics degree program in at NTU.
Studies Begin for Class of 2011
The MSA Class of 2011 began its 10-month journey this week. The cohort of 40 students was selected from a pool of 160 applicants. It is the most academically qualified MSA class to be admitted. The average undergraduate GPA is 3.50 (up from 3.28), and the number who graduated with academic honors increased by two-thirds over the 2010 class. Seventy-eight percent of the incoming class members are residents of Continue reading “Studies Begin for Class of 2011”