Post of the Clerk I/II in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science.

(Post date: May 22, 2012)

In respect of Knowledge Exchange, one of HKU missions, the 9th "Statistics and Management Training Programme for Jiangsu Province of China" which commenced on May 16, 2012, has completed on May 19, 2012, with great success. There are now about 300 government officials enrolled in the programme so far.

(Post date: May 21, 2012)

The 16th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics (IME) will be held on 28-30 June 2012 at the University of Hong Kong. Organised by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science as one of the HKU Centenary celebration events, this is the second time that the IME Congress is to be held outside Europe and North America. Please click here for more event details and registration methods.

(Post date: May 7, 2012)

Congratuations to Professor Tony W.K. Fung who was awarded Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on 18 February 2012 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia for "significant contribution to statistical DNA forensics, robust statistics, professional services, dissemination of statistical knowledge to forensic community, communicating and interpreting statistics to the public". For more details, please click here.

(Post date: February 23, 2012)

The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science has been designated as a Center of Actuarial Excellence by the Society of Actuaries for a period of five years. For more details, please click here.

(Post date: December 22, 2011)

An agreement was signed between the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFA), United Kingdom, to accredit the BSc(ActuarSc) programme for IFA subjects CT1 – CT8, with effect from 5 September 2011. According to Dr. Trevor Watkins, Director of Education at IFA, the BSc(ActuarSc) programme is the first in Asia obtaining such accreditation from the institution.

(Post date: September 7, 2011)

HKU was ranked no.1 in Asia and 22nd in the world in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2011; see also reports in media: WenWei Pao and QQ Education. This year, QS also provides the world rankings by subjects for the first time. For the subject of Statistics, HKU was ranked 26th world-wide, at the top of all HK institutions. This rank is the 5th highest in all subjects among all HK institutions; see the summary table.

(Post date: September 7, 2011)

The Department is deeply grateful to Mr. Patrick Sun-Cheong Poon for his great generosity in making donations to continue the Patrick Poon Lecture Series in Actuarial Science which was established in 2004, to have established the endowed Patrick S C Poon Professorship in Statistics and Actuarial Science, and to launch the Patrick S C Poon Scholarship scheme of up to ten awards per cohort of actuarial science students this year.

(Post date: April 11, 2011)