Description: Table of Contents for the Expanding Horizons Issue 26, April 2003.

Description: The Drake Risk and Insurance Workshop on Catastrophe Risk took place virtually on February 19, 2021, hosted by the School of Actuarial Science & Risk Management in the College of Business and Public Administration at Drake University. The purpose of this article is to share with the actuarial science community some experience in organizing this event amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Description: One of the sessions the E&R Section sponsored at the Annual Meeting in New York was titled "The New Math: Unorthodox Methods in Actuarial Science." The whole idea was to present academic results to practitioners who, in turn, could put them to good use.

Description: The University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, beginning July 1, 2006. A later starting date may be negotiated.

Description: An article in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 that discusses the Annual Prize to the author or authors writing the best paper to appear in the North American Actuarial Journal, the leading scientific publication of the Society. It announces the winners of the award, Mary R. Hardy for A Regime–Switching Model of Long-Term Stock Returns,and Phelim P. Boyle, Adam W. Kolkiewicz and Ken Seng Tan, for Valuation of the Reset Options Embedded in Some Equity–Linked Insurance Products.

Description: A disscussion of actuar R, an R package for actuarial science, and its facilities in the fields of loss distribution modeling, risk theory and credibility theory.