Risk Center Updates
Prof. Olga Fink: Predicting the unknown
We proudly share an exclusive portrait of our Risk Center Member Prof. Dr. Olga Fink, published on the ETH Zurich news portal. Prof. Fink became member of the ETH Risk Center in 2018. Read her full interview here.
Discover the ETH Risk Center Education Brochure
At the Risk Center, we believe education to be the most important and effective channel to disseminate knowledge and create impact in academia, industry, government agencies and society as a whole. The Risk Center offers a portfolio of educative formats ranging from master-level lectures to advanced study courses and courses for risk professionals. Some courses are run in collaboration with the Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC).
Are you interested in our education initiatives? We look forward to strategic and long-term partnerships with innovative companies.
Download the Brochure Downloadhere (PDF, 18.4 MB) to find out about our Education formats.
ETH Risk Center Activity Report for 2018-2019
2018 and 2019 were productive years for the ETH Risk Center. We welcomed four new Members. The Center has largely expanded its Edu- cation programmes, from the innovative Risk Case Study Challenges to courses for professionals. We hosted many events and broadened the Zurich Risk Community. The Risk Center has successfully build capacity for tackling the big societal challenges and global trends that humanity is facing and will face.
In 2020 and beyond, the Risk Center is poised to explore new avenues for integrative research, focusing on the resilience of human and en- gineered systems, deep uncertainty and climate change, and "healthy ageing". The Center is expanding its outreach using the tools of online communication that the Coronavirus crisis has brought to the fore. Finally, the digitization of health care systems in an ageing society is a topic that we are eager to explore in the next few years.
We hope you enjoy reading this report!
Download the report Downloadhere (PDF, 13.5 MB)
March 2019 | Walter Saxer Prize
Matthias Gattiker received the 2019 Walter Saxer Prize in recognition of his exceptional Master's thesis entitled: "Quadratic risk minimization with terminal wealth constraints".
This yearly award ceremony is organized together with the ETH Risk Center. On this occasion, Professor Mario Wüthrich (D-MATH) gave a talk entitled: "Yes, we CANN: machine learning in actuarial modelling".
June 2018 | Serguei Saavedra at the Risk Center
Prof. Saavedra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is a guest at the Risk Center in June 2018. He gave a talk on "Formalizing the tolerance of Ecological Systems to Environmental Perturbations" on 5 June.
May 2018 | Partnership Council Meeting in Singapore
Singapore Slideshow
April 2018 | Anne Bouverot at the Risk Center
Dr. Anne Bouverot | AnneB Advisors, Paris
"Who are you? Biometrics, Opportunities and Risks"
Fingerprinting has long been used for identification purposes, but biometrics are now becoming mass market, with fingerprint unlocking of smartphones becoming a default setting instead of passwords and
facial recognition now being used on iPhone Xs and Microsoft laptops. The use of biometrics in digital security perfectly combines convenience and accuracy, but of course there are many risks to be aware of
so that they can be properly addressed: potential hacking, planned or unplanned abusive usage, respect of privacy... This is a deeply personal subject for all of us!
About Anne Bouverot:
Anne Bouverot is the former CEO of French electronic security and biometrics company Morpho. Prior, she held various executive positions in the telecommunication industry. She was Executive Vice President,
Mobile Services, for France Télécom Orange and in 2011, she was appointed Director General and board member of the GSM Association (GSMA). Ms Bouverot holds a PhD in Computer Science from
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 17:15 – 18:45 hrs, followed by an open discussion and a networking aperitif.
ETH Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101, Zurich, lecture room HG F7.
March 2018: Walter Saxer Prize 2018
The two junior scientists Philippe Deprez and Matthias Kirchner have received the 2018 Walter Saxer Prize in recognition of their exceptional doctoral theses.
Awarded works:
- Philippe Deprez
external pageRandom graph modeling and network analysis
Doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Mario Wüthrich (D-MATH), Prof. Paul Embrechts (D-MATH) and Prof. Thomas Hurd (McMaster University)
- Matthias Kirchner
external pagePerspectives onHawkes Processes
Doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Paul Embrechts, Prof. Valérie Chavez-Demoulin (University of Lausanne), Prof. Alan Hawkes (Swansea University) and Prof. Thomas Mikosch (University of Copenhagen)
This year's award ceremony was organized together with the ETH Risk Center. On this occasion, Professor Pablo Koch Medina (University of Zurich) gave a talk on "Internal models are dead. Are they really?".
March 2017 | Walter Saxer Insurance Prize
Again, this year's Award Ceremony was part of the ETH Risk Center Spring 2017 Seminar Series and Prof. Joël Wagner, University of Lausanne gave a talk on "Long-Term Care Models".
March 2016 | Walter Saxer Insurance Prize
This year's Award Ceremony was part of the ETH Risk Center Spring 2016 Seminar Series and Prof. Hans Gersbach gave a talk on "Insurance and Reinsurance of the Financial System".
November 2015 | The Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum
Old-Age Provision: Past, Present, Future
The conference is supported through the ETH Risk Center and several Risk Center Professors contributed to it:
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October 2015 | Seminar Series Talk by Nassim Taleb
Prof. Nassim Taleb gave a talk at the Risk Center Seminar Series on October 27, 2015 at ETH Zurich. More than 550 people listened to his ideas of fragility. Please find below a slideshow of the event.
September 2015 | Risk Day at ETH
The ETH Risk Day is a mini-Conference on Risk Management in Finance and Insurance. The yearly “Risk Day” conference at ETH is intended as a platform of dialogue between leading academia and leading practitioners on current topics of risk management in banking and insurance.
Risk Day
More information on the ETH Risk Day can be found external pagehere
September 2015 | ESREL Conference
The ESREL Conference took place at the ETH Main Building. The Risk Center acted as a co-organizer of this big conference. Risk Center Professors Paul Embrechts and Didier Sornette gave a keynote. In addition Risk Center Guest Nassim Taleb gave also a keynote at this great conference. Read more