Presentation


The Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, of the University of the Aegean, is pleased to host the 2nd Conference in Actuarial Science and Finance, to be held in Samos, on September 20-22, 2002.

This event is jointly organized with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ( Department of Applied Economics and Department of Mathematics ) and the Université Catholique de Louvain ( Institute of Statistics and Actuarial research group ), Belgium.

The Conference allows the presentation of the latest works in the area of Actuarial Science and Finance. It is open to all persons interested in actuarial science and finance, be they from universities, insurance companies, banks, consulting firms or regulatory authorities. The conference aims to facilitate the contact and the communication between the practicians and the researchers; a special session will be devoted to different aspects of actuarial practice.

There will some pre-conference short courses from September 16-19, 2002


Topics of special interest include:
  • Life, pension and health insurance
  • Collective Risk Models, Dynamic Solvency Testing (Risk Based Capital Models, Dynamic Financial Analysis)
  • Claims Distributions and Statistics
  • Nonlife insurance (Loss Reserving Methods, Bonus-Malus Systems, Analysis of Dependence)
  • Extreme Value Theory and Applications (Finance, Reinsurance)
  • Financial Risk Management (Asset Management, Asset-Liability Management)

Scientific Committee: - chairman: Frangos Nicolaos - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- members: Asmussen Sören - University of Lund, Sweden
Denuit Michel - Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Goovaerts Marc - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Konstantinides Dimitrios - University of the Aegean, Greece
McDonald Angus - Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Sundt Bjørn - Vital Forsikring ASA, Norway
Tessaromatis Nikolaos - Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, Greece
Teugels Jef - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Verrall Richard - City University, United Kingdom
Waters Howard - Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

Organizers:
  • Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science - University of the Aegean
  • Department of Mathematics - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Department of Applied Economics - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Institute of Statistics - Université Catholique de Louvain
  • Prefecture of Samos

Organizing Committee: - chairman: Frangos Nicolaos - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- members: Dhaene Jan - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Konstantinides Dimitrios - University of the Aegean, Greece
Purcaru Oana - Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Teugels Jef - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Walhin Jean-François - Secura Belgian Re, Belgium

Local Organizing Committee: - chairman: Frangos Nicolaos - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- members: Katsis Athanasios - University of the Aegean
Konstantinides Dimitrios - University of the Aegean
Koutsopoulos Costas - University of the Aegean
Poufinas Thomas - University of the Aegean
Ntzoufras Ioannis - University of the Aegean
Zontos Alexandros - University of the Aegean





Sponsors:

MUNICIPALITY
OF
KARLOVASI
PREFECTURE
OF
SAMOS
UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN
Bank of Greece







Samos 2002
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