Rick Gorvett, FCAS, MAAA, ARM, FRM, Ph.D.

 

Director, Actuarial Science Program

State Farm Companies Foundation Scholar in Actuarial Science

Department of Mathematics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

 

 

Mailing Address:

273 Altgeld Hall
1409 West Green Street
Urbana, IL   61801

 

 

Office:

374 Altgeld Hall

 

 

Phone:

(217) 244-1739

Fax:

(217) 333-9576

E-mail:

gorvett@illinois.edu

 

 

Fall 2008 Teaching Schedule: 

Math 476/567: Actuarial Risk Theory

319 Gregory Hall

9:00-10:20 am, TuTh

 

 

 

Math 210: Theory of Interest

319 Gregory Hall

10:30-11:50 am, TuTh

 

 

Fall 2008 Office Hours:

Tuesdays: 3-4 pm

Wednesdays: 3-5 pm

or by appointment

 

 

Links to Interesting and Important Websites:

Be An Actuary – info for those interested in the actuarial profession

 

Society of Actuaries – professional society for life actuaries

 

Casualty Actuarial Society – professional society for property & casualty actuaries

 

U of I Actuarial Science Club

 

U of I Undergraduate Program Requirements

 

U of I Graduate Program Requirements

 

Some Recent Presentations:

“Enterprise Risk Management: Hollow Tree or Giant Redwood?” Midwestern Actuarial Forum Spring Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2008

(See curriculum vitae for additional presentations)

“Stochastic Modeling: A Research Experience for Undergraduates,” Actuarial Research Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2007

 

“Using Interpretive Structural Modeling to Identify and Quantify Interactive Risks,” ASTIN Symposium, Orlando, FL, June 2007

 

“The Role of Auditing in the Enterprise Risk Management Process,” Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 2006

 

“Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems,” Actuarial Research Conference, Iowa City, IA, August 2004

 

“Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems,” Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago, IL, April 2004

 

“Modeling of Economic Series Coordinated with Interest Rate Scenarios,” Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago, IL, April 2004

 

“Enterprise Risk Management,” RIMS - ACP, Bloomington, IL, March 2004

 

“Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity,” Crisis Management and Business Continuity Seminar, Bloomington, IL, October 2003

 

“Modeling of Economic Series Coordinated with Interest Rate Scenarios: Research Sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society of Actuaries,” Actuarial Research Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2003

 

“An Overview of Capital Management for Property/Casualty Insurance Companies,” CAS Risk & Capital Management Seminar, Washington, DC, July 2003

 

“Securitization and Other Instruments for Transferring Risk to the Capital Markets,” CAS-SOA Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Washington, DC, July 2003

 

“Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics: Doing Integrals for Fun and Profit,” Math 400, guest lecture to graduate students, March 2001

 

“Insurance Securitization,” International Association of Consulting Actuaries, Hershey, PA, June 2000