Professor Stam Is the Leggett & Platt Distinguished Professor of Management Information

Actuarial Science Department

Faculty of Commerce

University of Cape Town

ACTUARIAL SCIENCE/DEMOGRAPHY SEMINARS 2016

Below is the draft schedule for the seminars hosted by the Actuarial Science Department in association with the Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe) for the first semester of 2016, so that you might diarise in advance.

The titles and abstract of each seminar will be distributed slightly in advance of the seminar in question.

The seminars will be held at 1-2pm inBeattie 114,Beattie Building,Upper Campuson Thursdays.

Date / Presenter / Topic
18 Feb / Sandra Gonçalves, PhD student, CARe, UCT / Childbearing in a context of high child mortality: the experience of Mozambique
25 Feb / Alex Blackwell, PhD student, ACQuFRR, UCT / Generalised Additive Gaussian Models of the Term Structure
03Mar / Peter Kisaakye, PhD Student, CARe, UCT / A detailed analysis of calendar data: Understanding contraceptive use dynamics and the implications for reproductive behaviour in Eastern Africa
10 Mar / Jo Legutko, Actuarial Science, UCT / The effect of Financial Position on Happiness in Retirement
17 Mar / Ron Richman, MPhil Student, CARe, UCT / Estimating level and trend in old age mortality in South Africa
VACATION
07 Apr / Simon Rigby, BBusSc graduate, 2015 / Modelling the effect of IPV and IPV prevention on HIV incidence
14 Apr / Daniel Polokow, AdjunctProfessor, Actuarial Science, UCT / Declining Dispersion: Despicable or Desirable?
21 Apr / Dr Catriona Towriss, Postdoc at CARe / Childbearing among women living with HIV in Gugulethu
28 April / Dr Sure Mataramvura, Actuarial Science, UCT, and Godfrey Charles Cadogan / Asset Pricing with Myopic loss aversion to credit default
05 May / Dr Visseho Adjiwanou, CARe, UCT / Assessing men's level of education on women's reproductive health and child well-being in developing countries
12 May / Dave Strugnell,Head of Research at MMI Holdings / The equity risk premium and its influence on pre-retirement investment strategy

All welcome. Please distribute to any colleagues you feel may be interested.