History of FAM

Professorships at FAM

• Prof. Uwe Schmock
  June 2003: appointment to a Professorship in Actuarial Mathematics
• Prof. Walter Schachermayer
  October 1998: appointment to a Professorship in Financial and Actuarial Mathematics,
  September 2008: leaving due to job offer: appointment to a Professorship in Financial Mathematics at University of Vienna
• Prof. Karl-Heinz Wolff
  1970: appointment to a Professorship in Actuarial Mathematics,
  1996: receiving the emeritus status

Structure of FAM

• since January 2004:
  Research Unit Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (E105-1)
  of the Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics (E105)
• April 2001 - December 2003:
  Department of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (E105)
  
• September 1998 - March 2001:
  Financial and Actuarial Mathematics Group (E107-5)
  of the Department of Statistics, Probability Theory and Insurance Mathematics (E107)
• 1970 - September 1998:
  Insurance Mathematics Group
  of the Department of Analysis, Technical Mathematics and Insurance Mathematics

Important Projects/Grants

• Christian-Doppler-Laboratory Portfolio Risk Management (PRisMa Lab). Laboratory Director: Uwe Schmock
  starting in January 2006
• START Prize 2006 of Josef Teichmann
  January 2007 - December 2009
• Wittgenstein Prize 1998 of Walter Schachermayer
  October 1998 - September 2004

Important Events

• AMaMeF 2007 - Workshop and Mid-Term Conference on Advanced Mathematical Methods for Finance (Vienna, 2007-09-17 to 2007-09-22)
• ALM 2004 - Austrian Workshop on Asset Liability Management in Insurance (Vienna, 2004-09-23 to 2004-09-25)
• CRM 2001 - Austrian Workshop on Credit Risk Management (Vienna, 2001-01-31 to 2001-02-02)
• WOMF 1999 - Workshop on Mathematical Finance (Strobl and Vienna, 1999-09-13 to 1999-09-18)