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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 Van Eenam Lectures
DESCRIPTION:Lectures each day November 18-20\, 2025 from 4-5 pm in East Hall 1360\nThere will be a reception after the Tuesday Colloquium in the Math Upper Atrium.\nTitles and abstracts TBD\n\nDr. Ruodu Wang is Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Risk Management and Professor of Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance at the University of Waterloo. He received his PhD in Mathematics (2012) from the Georgia Institute of Technology\, after completing his Bachelor (2006) and Master’s (2009) degrees at Peking University. He holds editorial positions in 8 leading journals in actuarial science\, operations research\, statistics\, and economics\, including Co-Editor of ASTIN Bulletin - The Journal of the International Actuarial Association and Co-Editor of the European Actuarial Journal. Among other international awards and recognitions\, he is the first winner of the SOA Actuarial Science Early Career Award (2021) from the Society of Actuaries\, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (elected 2022). His research papers are published in top journals across a wide range of scientific fields\, such as the American Economic Review\, the Annals of Statistics\, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B)\, Management Science\, Operations Research\, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nVan Eenam Lectures:\nThis lecture is funded by the Weltha McLachlan Van Eenam\, Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher and Robert Ward Butcher Actuarial/Financial Mathematics Fund.\n\nThe Fund was established in memory of the Esteemed Emeritus Professor Cecil J. Nesbitt who was a dear friend of Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher (pictured) and Robert Ward Butcher. The fund was created as part of the Weltha McLachlan Van Eenam Memorial Fund to benefit Actuarial/Financial Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Weltha McLachlan VanEenam was a 1918 graduate of Michigan who had a career as an early Social Security actuary.  Marjorie\, Robert and Weltha were three dedicated teachers\, devoted to their students' development who provided this fund in memory of Cecil Nesbitt\, the greatest and kindest teacher among them.\n\nWeltha McLachlan Van Eenam (A.B. 1918)\, Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher (A.B. 1947\, A.M. 1949) and Robert Ward Butcher all were elected to Phi Beta Kappa while students at the University. By examination\, all became members of the professional Society of Actuaries.
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