First Brazilian Conference on Statistical
    Modelling in Insurance and Finance

Short Courses


Jan Beirlant: Extreme Values and Applications
Course X (6 hours) - Monday and Tuesday, 15:30-17:50; course fee: 70 US$/€

Yuri Goegebeur: Modelling Dependence Through Copulas
Course Y (6 hours) - Thursday, 15:30-17:50 and Friday, 8:30-10:50;
course fee: 70 US$/€

Jan Dhaene and Emiliano Valdez:  Elliptical Distributions and Applications in
 Finance and Actuarial Science

Course Z (8 hours) - Monday and Tuesday, 18:00-19:30;
Friday, 11:00-12:30 and 17:50-19:20; course fee: 90 US$/€


The short courses are intended to attract graduate students as well as researchers interested in the particular field. The intention is to present a broad (rather than deep) overview of the topic.


Observation 1: A special course fee for attending 3 short courses will be 170 US$/€.
Observation 2: The number of participants in each short course will be limited to 20.
Observation 3:The short courses fee for Latin-American participants are: R$ 50 per courses X and Y, and R$ 70 per course Z.