Esther Portnoy

has retired! Office 169 Altgeld, but call 333-9674 or email eportnoy@uiuc.edu first.

Click for information about Actuarial Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
or for specific information about the Department of Mathematics or the Department of Statistics.

Some useful links:
Actuarial Science Club website

Information on our undergraduate or graduate (M.S.) program in actuarial science.
Graduate Guide also contains useful information. Apply online for the graduate program.

Professor Gorvett's homepage
Professor Zhu's homepage

More links

For more information on the field of Actuarial Science, follow links to career pages on the Society of Actuaries, American Society of Pension Actuaries, Casualty Actuarial Society or International Association of Black Actuaries website; or see So You Want to Be an Actuary?

DW Simpson, search firm specializing in the placement of actuaries (including entry-level).
Since 1997 DW Simpson has offered a scholarship annually to a UofI actuarial science major;
see Professor Gorvett for an application, usually due June 1.

Publications

Crossover in mortality rates by sex. Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 38(1986).
Bootstrapping a graduation. In Actuarial Science, Volume VI of Advances in the Statistical Sciences; D. Reidel, 1987.
A closer look at the adjustment coefficient. Actuarial Research Clearing House 1990.1.
Recent trends in mortality rates by race. Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991.1.
Bivariate Schuette graduation. Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994.1.
Bivariate Schuette graduation of race-specific mortality rates. Actuarial Research Clearing House 1995.1.
Regression-quantile graduation of Australian life tables, 1946-1992. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 21 #2 (1997)