Thursday, October 24, 2019
On Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19, 2019, the first Waterloo Student Conference in Statistics, Actuarial Science, and Finance took place. While this event was hosted by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, it was the students who brought it to life. This two-day conference was organized by students, for students.
The agenda for the conference featured keynote presentations by leading researchers, Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University), Sebastian Jaimungal (University of Toronto), and Mary Thompson (University of Waterloo), as well as 40 research presentations by students from a variety of universities.
Read about the presentation awards given at the conference.