Now accepting applications to graduate programs for Fall 2018 admission
November 13, 2017
Professor Guozhen Lu Named Fellow of the AMS
October 31, 2017
Waiting List for Spring 2018
October 29, 2017
How many healthy years of life do you have left? Our calculator will guess!
October 18, 2017
Special Semester in Logic – Fall 2017
September 10, 2017
Valdez, Vadiveloo and Gan receive CAE research grant from the Society of Actuaries
August 29, 2017
Professors Emiliano A. Valdez, Jeyaraj Vadiveloo and Guojun Gan have been awarded a Center of Actuarial Excellence (CAE) research grant from the Society of Actuaries. The grant will support a three-year (2017-2020) research project on “Applying Data Mining Techniques in Actuarial Science” which aims to examine and evaluate data mining tools and approaches for analyzing data in actuarial science and insurance. In particular, they will focus on tools and methods that will effectively demonstrate on how actuaries can use them to preform predictive analytics in three specific areas: claims tracking and monitoring in life insurance, understanding policyholder behavior in general insurance, and model efficiency for variable annuity products.
This research grant is part of a competition that is sponsored by the Society of Actuaries each year for schools that have received the CAE designation. The submission process involves passing two rounds that make it extremely competitive and the review process normally takes about 5-6 months till final decision. In the first round, interested CAE universities must submit a brief letter of intent with a summary of proposed research project. In 2016, 18 CAE schools submitted letters of intent and only about half were invited to submit a full proposal in the second round. Full proposals are then judged according to five criteria: impact, cost-benefit, uniqueness, viability, and overall quality. Each year, only about 2-3 universities receive an education or research grant.
This is the first time that the SOA awarded such a research grant to the University of Connecticut. Other universities that have received such grants include University of Waterloo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Michigan. A complete list of past CAE grant awards may be found here (https://www.soa.org/Education/Resources/Cae/edu-cae-grants-award-history.aspx).
A website detailing the UConn research grant may be found on this link
Summer 2017 REU on Stochastics and Fractals
June 19, 2017
This summer the Mathematics REU program on stochastics and fractals is organized by Professors Luke Rogers, Masha Gordina and Sasha Teplyaev. In addition, Luke Rogers, Phanuel Mariano and Gamal Mograby organized the 5th Northeast Mathematics Undergraduate Research Mini-Symposium at the University of Connecticut on August 3rd, 2017. The program is supported by an NSF REU Site Grant. Visit the UConn Math REU Page for more information.
Professors Rogers and Teplyaev Co-Organizing 6th Cornell Conference on Analysis, Probability and Mathematical Physics on Fractals
April 29, 2017
Profs. Luke Rogers and Alexander Teplyaev are members of the organizing committee of the 6th Cornell Conference on Analysis, Probability, and Mathematical Physics on Fractals. The conference will take place in Ithaca NY, from June 13–17, 2017, and is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Professor Reinhard Laubenbacher interviewed in Notices of the AMS
April 27, 2017
2017 Awards Day
April 20, 2017
Come and help us celebrate the accomplishments of our students!
Our Annual Awards Day Ceremony is on Friday, April 28th. We will have tea at 3:00 PM in Monteith 201, followed by the awards ceremony at 3:30 PM in Schenker Lecture Hall. (Program and list of awards.)
This year’s Invited Address will be given by Dr. Brendan Kelly, preceptor in Mathematics at Harvard University. He will speak on “How many ways can I get to the coffee shop?”.