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28 June 2021
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The announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 27 June 2021 that the country will move to an adjusted Level 4 of the national lockdown for the next two weeks – as from 28 June 2021 until 11 July 2021 – was welcomed by the management of the University of the Free State (UFS).
The Senior Leadership Group (SLG) of the university met today, and
measures were implemented with immediate effect and until further notice.
Developments in extreme value theory, actuarial science and risk analysis discussed
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From the left are the organisers of the workshop, Prof Daan de Waal and Frans Koning from the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science at the UFS, and the four international speakers, Prof. Pieter van Gelder (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands), Prof. Jan Dhaene (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Prof. Marc Goovaerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Prof. Emiliano Valdez (University of Connecticut, USA).
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The Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of the Free State (UFS) recently hosted its second annual workshop on “Applications of Statistics and Probability in Energy, Finance and Actuarial Science”.
Talented international experts presented papers on recent developments in extreme value theory, actuarial science and risk analysis. Staff and postgraduate students of the department also presented papers on the topic. |