Rick Gorvett, FCAS, ASA, CERA, 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

 

 

Spring 2012 Teaching Schedule: 

Math 478/568: Actuarial Modeling

213 Gregory Hall

9:30-10:50 am, TuTh

 

 

Spring 2012 Office Hours:

Tuesdays: 3-4 pm

Wednesdays: 3-4 pm

or by appointment

 

 

Advising Meetings:

To sign up for an advising meeting:

(1) Go to http://tungle.me/rickgorvett

(2) Go to the appropriate week. Available day and time slots for the week are shown. Click on an available time slot to sign up, and follow the subsequent instructions.

(3) You MUST select and click on a SINGLE 15-minute timeslot. Please do NOT suggest more than one meeting time and ask for my availability. If a timeslot is shown in Tungle, that DOES indicate my availability. Submitting a time request is equivalent to signing your name into a time sheet.

(4) The first time you use Tungle, you will have to verify your email address. You can, but do not have to, sign up for a Tungle account to make subsequent signups easier.

 

 

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:

Current Megatrends: Implications for Enterprise Risk Management, Midwestern Actuarial Forum Spring Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, September 2011

(See curriculum vitae for additional presentations)

Research Trends and Opportunities in Actuarial Science and Financial Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America (Illinois) Conference, Naperville, IL, April 2011

 

Agent-Based Modeling: Applications to ERM, ERM Symposium, Chicago, IL, April 2010

 

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

 

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