The Actuarial Studies Program

Actuarial studies at UT-Austin has a long and distinguished history of producing well-prepared students at both the undergraduate and graduate level, many of whom have become leaders of the actuarial profession. The present Director of the program, housed in the Mathematics Department, is Dr. James W. Daniel (an Associate of the Society of Actuaries), a UT-Austin Distinguished Teachinbg Professor and the Paul V. Montgomery Centennial Memorial Professor of Actuarial Mathematics. Dr. Leslie Vaaler teaches ACF329 Interest Theory. News and information on the actuarial program is published each Spring semester in the Risky Business newsletter on the program

UT Austin-Portugal collaborative program in Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics is participating a program of collaboration with several Portuguese Universities. This program includes teaching graduate students, postdocs and research collaboration. This collaboration is part of the In ternational Collaboratory for Emerging Technology (Colab), which encompasses, Mathematics as well as Digital Media, Advanced Computing and Tecnology Innovation.

The GRASP Lectures Series

GRASP (Geometry, Repesentations and Some Physics) is a new lecture series aimed at bringing some of the fundamental concepts and big pictures of GRASP areas to a wider audience. The intended target are beginning graduate students. The speakers are selected based in part on their ability to communicate fundamental ideas at a basic level to a broad audience.

Distinguished Women in Math

Distinguished Women in Math

Saturday Morning Math Group

The Saturday Morning Math Group is a UT sponsored outreach program aimed at junior high and high school students, their teachers and their parents. We meet about 4 times a semester on Saturday mornings from 10:00am-noon.