ARIA listserv announcements #4 - week of January 24, 2011

American Risk & Insurance Association
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Greetings ARIA members:Today’s listserv contains the following:

• ARIA Excellence in Teaching Award for 2011Hagen Family Foundation Travel Award for 2011ARIA 2011 Annual Meeting Call for Papers and Call for Concurrent Session ProposalsThe Seventh International Risk Management ConferenceBrockett and Shapiro ARIA Actuarial Journal Award
• ARIA News Editor seeks members news

ARIA Excellence in Teaching Award for 2011 This award recognizes excellence in risk management and insurance teaching.  Applicants should have a distinguished record of excellent teaching throughout their academic career.  The Excellence in Teaching Award is a non-monetary award and will be awarded only when an exceptional candidate is identified.  The application and supporting materials should be emailed to Jing Ai (jing.ai@hawaii.edu), University of Hawaii at Manoa.  The application deadline is April 1, 2011.  Please see the attached documents for additional information and application.

Hagen Family Foundation Travel Award for 2011 

Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 Hagen Family Foundation Travel Award.  Awards of up to $1,500 each will be granted to faculty and/or doctoral students who attend and present a paper at the 2011 ARIA Annual Meeting August 7-10 in San Diego, California.  The application deadline is March 18, 2011.  Please see the attached document for additional information.  Questions about the award should be directed to the Hagen Family Foundation Travel Award Committee Chair Jacqueline Volkman Wise at volkman@fordham.edu

 

ARIA 2011 Annual Meeting Call for Papers and Call for Concurrent Session Proposals ARIA’s 2011 Annual Meeting is scheduled for August 7-10 at the Marriott San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, California.  The deadline for submissions is February 18, 2011.  Please see the attached document for additional information.In addition to inviting the submission of single papers, the ARIA Program Committee invites members to submit proposals for entire concurrent sessions of one hour to one and one-half hours.  Proposals may be submitted electronically as a file attachment in Acrobat (.pdf) or Word (.doc) format.  If you decide to submit a hardcopy, please send four copies.  Proposals should be submitted to the ARIA Vice President and 2011 Program Chair:

George Zanjani Dept. of Risk Management and Insurance Georgia State University PO Box 4036 Atlanta, GA 30302

Telephone: 404-413-7464 Fax:  404-413-7499

Email: gzanjani@gsu.edu

 The Seventh International Risk Management Conference 

The Seventh International Risk Management Conference organized and sponsored by Eurasia Insurance Company is scheduled for April 14-15, 2011 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.  This event brings together over 300 participants from 40 countries worldwide, including leading risk-managers, politicians, and businessmen providing information and answers to the main concerns in the world economy.  Please see the attached document for additional information or visit the website at www.IRMC.kz

Brockett and Shapiro ARIA Actuarial Journal Award This new award, approved by ARIA’s Board, has appointed Pat Brockett to chair a committee to raise the funds to endow the award. The award will be given annually for the best risk management or insurance related article in the Society of Actuaries’ North American Actuarial Journal or the Casualty Actuarial Society’s journal Variance.  Pat Brockett has started off the funding of the award with a gift.  The first award will be given at ARIA’s Annual Meeting in August 2011.  It is hoped that this will draw the Society of Actuaries, the Casualty Actuarial Society, and ARIA even closer.  It is modeled on the CAS’s ARIA Award presented annually at the ARIA Annual Meeting for the paper published in an ARIA journal which has the greatest impact on casualty actuarial science.  Predictive modeling, mathematical economics of insurance, regulation, reinsurance, and other areas which are published in these two journals are very important, and much of this work deserves recognition by the ARIA community.  ARIA has a goal of raising at least $25,000 to fund the award for perpetuity and would like to request that contributions be made by ARIA members to the funding.   Checks of any size can be sent to: Tony Biacchi
ARIA Executive Director
716 Providence Road
Malvern, PA 19355-3402
Tel:  610-640-1997        
Fax: 610-725-1007  
E-mail: Biacchi@cpcuiia.org  Be sure to specify that this is for the Brockett & Shapiro ARIA Actuarial Journal Award.  You can discuss with Tony any issues you need, such as obtaining letters that document your donation for tax purposes, or invoices should you need them for your university or company to obtain a check.  Also, if you can think of any individuals or companies that should be contacted for funding, please send an email to Pat Brockett at brockett@mail.utexas.edu and let him know so he can follow up with them.  Names of people at the suggested companies would be useful if you have a contact there.

ARIA News Editor seeks members news ARIA News Editor Diana Lee would like to invite members to please send notices of events, both professional (promotions, transfers, new positions, articles/books published, etc.) and personal (engagements, marriages, births) that you would like published in the Spring issue of the ARIA News.  Please send announcements to Diana at diana.lee@pciaa.net by February 25.