Barcelona Insurance and Risk Management Summer School 2016
The BIRMss is the yearly event held at Riskcenter. In 2016, the Summer School is composed of three courses:
Registration is required
April, 5. Data Science & Big Data for Actuaries
After the annual Barcelona Forum of Risk managers organized by AGERS, Prof. Arthur Charpentier will give a lecture on the use of Data Science & Big Data for Actuaries. The course is one of a series of successful contents of the Freaknometrics blog.
Date: Tuesday, 5th April, 16:00 to 18:00.
Room: Sala de Graus, Faculty of Economics and Business, UB, Av. Diagonal, 690, 08034, Barcelona.
Live streaming on UBtv (http://www.ub.edu/ubtv/video/data-science-big-data-for-actuaries).
To register please send an email to: rfa@ub.edu
April, 6. Computational Actuarial science, with R
Prof. Arthur Charpentier wil give a short course on the use of R for many actuarial models. The course is one of a series of successful contents of Freaknometrics blog. It follows the book Computational Actuarial Science with R. CRC Press.
Date: Wednesday, 6th April, 10:00 am to 14:00 pm.
Room: Room 329, ERE, Faculty of Economics and Business, UB, Av. Diagonal, 690, 08034, Barcelona.
To register please send an email to: rfa@ub.edu
July, 11. CoCo Bonds Explained, by Wim Schoutens
We give a course on CoCo Bonds. A Contingent convertible (”CoCo”) is a debt instrument that automatically converts into equity or suffers a write down when the issuing bank gets into a state of a possible non-viability.
Date: Monday, 11th July, 9:30 am to 1.00 pm.
Room: Sala Recepcions, Faculty of Economics and Business, UB, Av. Diagonal, 690, 08034, Barcelona.
To register please send an email to: rfa@ub.edu
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