MATH – 193a.      Actuarial Mathematics

Summer, 2011

 B402A, MWF, 1:00-2:50.

NEWS      HOMEWORK     HANDOUTS

Instructor:      Professor Vladimir Rotar; office: APM-6454, phone: 534 9074, e-mail: vrotar@math.ucsd.edu.

Office hours:  MWF, 3:20-4:20. If it is needed, office hours may be extended.  Some questions may be answered right after the lectures.

 Text:   Actuarial Models: The Mathematics of Insurance, by V.I.Rotar, Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2006.  

Examinations: There will be several quizzes, and a final exam. Homework will be assigned almost each time and posted in this site. 

 

SYLLABUS

The list below is rather one of topics than of lectures: the real experience may dictate a slower or faster pace. A slight change of the order of exposition, and even of the contents, is also possible.

Lectures - Topics - Sections in the text-book .

 

1-2. Risk Measures. Ch.1.   1.1, 1.2.1-3, 3.1-3, 5.1.

3-6. Individual risk models for a short term. Ch.2. 1.1-3, 2.1-2, 2.2, 3.1.1.

7-11. Collective risk models for a short term.  Ch.4. 2.1.1, 3.1-2.

11-15.  Collective risk models over an extended period: insurance processes in time. Ruin probability. The first surplus. Ch.5. 2.1-2, 3.  Ch.7.  2.1, 2.2, 2.4.1-2.