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Appeared in April, 2024 with Cambridge University Press: “Risk revealed: Cautionary tales, understanding and communication”. Explore the concept of risk through numerous examples and their statisticalmodeling, traveling from a historical perspective all the way to an up-to-datetechnical analysis. Written with a wide readership in mind, this book beginswith accounts of a selection of major historical … Read more

We are pleased to announce the launch of The Quantitative Risk Management Exercise Book, which has just been published in electronic form by Princeton University Press. Follow the link in the image below. The book contains a comprehensive set of exercises on Chapters 1-11 of the QRM textbook. The exercises are a mix of review … Read more

On 2018-09-14, Risk Day 2018 took place at ETH Zurich, HG E 7. For more details, see https://www.math.ethz.ch/imsf/events/risk-day.html

Paul Embrechts gave his farewell lecture on May 30, 2018 (17:15, Audimax F30, ETH Zurich).

The QRM Tutorial team held a Summer School from August 21 to August 24 in Montreal as part of the thematic semester “Risk in Complex Systems”. It took place in CIRANO, 14th floor, 1130, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Montréal (métro Peel), Canada. Links: – Thematic semester: http://www.crm.math.ca/Risk2017/ – CIRANO: https://www.cirano.qc.ca/en Registration:  – In English: https://www.crm.umontreal.ca/act/form/inscr_ecolegestion17_e.shtml – In French: https://www.crm.umontreal.ca/act/form/inscr_ecolegestion17_f.shtml Here is a schedule for … Read more

The QRM Tutorial team gave the 29th International Summer School of the Swiss Association of Actuaries at the University of Lausanne from 15-19 August 2016. An article about this summer school can be downloaded here (.pdf) and videos can be found here (youtube channel).

On the 31 August 2015 a signing event attended by all three authors took place at the Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh.  

A signing event was held at ETH Zurich on 11 September as part of the 2015 Risk Day. For more details see the Risk Day 2015 web page. 

The 2nd edition was launched with a signing event in Vienna on June 10.