Thanks to everyone for helping us grow into the world’s largest community of actuaries.  From our freshman student actuary, to our most senior credentialed actuary, we’re glad to have each and everyone of you here on the Actuarial Outpost discussion forum for actuaries.

Here’s a brief summary of our new all time high statistics.

At 6:27 PM, Thursday July, 2nd, we had a record setting 1,849 members online over a 24 hour period.

At 10:45 AM, Thursday, July, 2nd, the Actuarial Outpost had 1,647 active members and guests online.

Last week there were 14,367 posts made by our 18,704 members, who have accumulated 3,685,220 posts made in 159,442 discussion topics.

We’d really like to see what this new server can do.  Help us beat our old record of most actuaries online, set at 1,605 on 07-02-2008 at 03:07 PM.  We really want to hit the 2000 mark, and make actuarial history, so email your fellow actuaries, and invite them to jon us.  You could simply send them these links http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/about and http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/register, and let them know why you read the outpost and why they should too.

The blogs are on everything from actuarial exams to BBQ cooking. Don’t want the world to read it? No problem. Once you’re a member of our forum, you will be able to create your first blog post. You can then choose who can read your blog in your user control panel, under edit options. You can browse the public Actuarial Outpost Blogs here.

If you’d like to start your own actuary blog, you can register with the Actuarial Outpost by going to http://www.ActuarialOutpost.com/register or by sending an email (from any email provider) to “register” at “actuarialoutpost” dot com, and let me (Tom) know what you would like your user name to be. You’ll be a member of the First & Largest Online Actuarial Community, in no time.

We’re glad to have such a large community of actuaries, who regularly answer question in the exam forum, and the occasional advice column in Non-Actuarial. Our next big milestone will be our 3.000.000th post. Who’s it gonna be? What will it say? What should we do to celebrate?

As for our 15,000th member, we’re not going to let you go home empty handed. We have a t-shirt/trophy and some other gifts for you, to mark this occasion. Look for your PM from Tom for details on how to claim your prize.

Again, thanks to all of our members who make this place a helpful study tool and a good place to network with other actuaries.

-Tom

Help the world’s largest actuarial community build the world’s largest actuarial wiki database

http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/wiki

Though the wiki has been around for a few months now, we’ve decided to announce it to the public and invite you to help us create the newest study/informational resource for actuaries. We currently have two editors working on setting up the structure for the first four exams (P, FM, MLC/3, MFE, C/4), and we’d like your help, too.

If you’d like to contribute to our wiki (big or small), first make sure you have an ID on the discussion board (if not register), then send a private message to Tom, and ask for him to set you up with a Wiki Contributor account. All members who help with the wiki will get added privileges in the forum, similar to our 5 year members, site supporters, and note contributors.

Are you a little worried about whether or not you’ll be able to understand how the wiki works? No worries. Tom will send you a simiple crash course in wiki 101, and you’ll be a pro in no time. If you have any questions about how the wiki works, what we’re looking for, or anything else you can think of, you can discuss all wiki questions here.

In your school’s actuarial science forum, you can discuss/post your class notes, ask questions about homework / upcoming exam, or organize your next departmental social event. If you’d like your forum divided into more specific sub-forums, just send a private message or email to Tom, and he will be glad to help. If you’d like to get the word out about this growing resource, ask your school’s webmaster to post a link on your department’s home page to your school’s forum on the Actuarial Outpost. If you’re a teacher and would like help your students sign up for IDs on the Outpost, contact Tom via email at tom{at}actuarialoutpost.com, and he can create a list of login IDs for your students along with some other helpful “getting started” information.

Click on any of the following universities’ names to go to their specific forum here on the Actuarial Outpost. The main contact is listed under each school along with a link to their actuarial science department’s website. If you notice any information that is outdated or incorrect, please leave a comment below, and we will have it as up to date as possible.

Abilene Christian University
Ruby Rutherford – Senior Administrative
http://www.acu.edu

Arizona State University, Tempe
Don Jones – Director of Undergraduate Studies
http://math.asu.edu/~undergrd/ugraddegprg.html

Armstrong Atlantic State University
Lorrie Hoffman – Professor and Head
http://www.math.armstrong.edu

Ball State University
W. Bart Frye – Assistant Professor
http://www.bsu.edu/math

Beloit College
Paul Campbell – Professor
http://cs.beloit.edu/inside/extracurricular.html

Benedictine University
Jeremy Nadolski – Assistant Professor
http://www.ben.edu/mathhome/index.html

Bentley College
Lucy Kimball – Associate Professor
http://www.bentley.edu/

Binghamton University
Miguel Arcones – Professor
http://www.binghamton.edu/

Bob Jones University
Dr. Gary Guthrie – Chairman of Mathematical Science
http://www.bju.edu/academics/cas/undergrad/divms/actuarial.html

Boston University
Ms. Lois K. Horwitz – Department Contact
Actuarial Science Website

Brigham Young University
Bruce Collings – Professor
http://statweb.byu.edu/

Bryant University
Phyllis Schumacher – Professor/Chair
http://www.bryant.edu

California State University, Long Beach
Actuarial Dept. Contacts: Dr. Morteza Ebneshahrashoob, Dr. Yonghee Kim-Park
http://www.csulb.edu/depts/math/options/actuarial.html

Case Western Reserve University
Amy Orendi – Professor (ASA)
http://stat.case.edu

Central Connecticut State
Frank Bensics – Professor
http://www.ccsu.edu/

Central Michigan University
Tom Miles – Director
http://www.cmich.edu

Colorado at Boulder
Anne Dougherty – professor
David Grant – professor
Kent Goodrich – professor
http://www.colorado.edu/ActuarialStudies

Columbia University
Daniel Rabinowitz – Admissions and Acadmic Adviser
http://www.ce.columbia.edu/actuary

Concordia University
Jose Garrido – Director (ASA)
http://www.mathstat.concordia.ca

Doane College
Peggy Hart – Associate Professor
http://www.doane.edu

Drake University
Stuart Klugman – Professor
http://www.drake.edu/cbpa/acts

Florida State University
Bettye Anne Case – Department Head
Steve Paris – Asistant Professor
Esther Diaguila – Advisor
http://www.math.fsu.edu/~smith/Guides/actmath.html

Georgia State University
Shawn Wang – Actuarial Science Contact
http://www.rmi.gsu.edu/AcaProgs/AS/ASindex.htm
GSU Actuarial Student Association

Grand Valley State University
Jann-Huei Jinn – Professor
http://www.gvsu.edu

Howard University
B. Paul Choi – Dr./Assistance Professor
http://www.bschool.howard.edu

Illinois State University
Krzysztof Ostaszewski – Actuarial Program Director
http://www.math.ilstu.edu/actuary

Indiana University, Northwest
Lary Schiefelbusch – Associate Professor
http://www.iun.edu

Indiana University, South Bend
Morteza Shafii-Mousavi – Professor
http://www.iusb.edu/~sbmath/

Iowa State University
W. Robert Stephenson – University Professor
http://www.iastate.edu

Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Paul Maiste, Dr. Jong-Shi Pang, Dr. John Wierman – Advisors
http://www.ams.jhu.edu/mts/actuary

Lebanon Valley College
Bryan Hearsey – Actuarial Program Coordinator
http://www.lvc.edu

Liberty University
Actuarial Science Contact – Dr. Glyn Wooldridge, Chair
http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=184

Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Debbie Shepherd – Director / Assistant Professor
http://www.lsus.edu/sc/math

Maryville University at St. Louis
Min Deng – Ph.D. and ASA
http://www.maryville.edu

Miami University
David Groggel – Associate Professor
http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~MathStat/index.html

Middle Tennessee State University
Don Hong, Ph.D. – Professor
http://www.mtsu.edu/~amsa/

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Karen Rappaport – Department Contact Zoi-heleni Michalopoulou – Director(Undergraduate Program) Padma Gulati – Departmental Coordinator http://catalog.njit.edu/undergraduate/programs/financeactuarialscience.php

New York University Stern School of Business
Aaron Tenenbein – Professor of Statistics and Director of the Actuarial Science Program
http://www.stern.nyu.edu

Northeastern University
Sol Jekel – Head Advisor
http://www.math.neu.edu

Northwestern
Timothy Huffman – Assoc. Professor of Mathematics
http://www.nwciowa.edu

Ohio State University
Chunsheng Ban – Professor
http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/actuarial

Otterbein College
Jonathon Huber – Main Contact
http://www.otterbein.edu

Penn State University
Contact: deansoffice(at)smeal.psu.edu
Website: http://www.psu.edu/admissions/steps/choosing/actusci.htm

Portland State University

Purdue University
Richard Penney – Main Contact
http://www.math.purdue.edu/academic/actuary

Robert Morris University
Len Asimow – Main contact
http://www.rmu.edu/actuarialscience

Roosevelt University
Steve Cohen – Ph.D., Director of School
http://www.roosevelt.edu

St. John’s University
Dr. Srinivasa Ramanujam – Associate Professor
http://149.68.13.136/academics/undergraduate/tobin/risk/bs_actuarial.sju

State University of New York at Albany
Richard Z. Goldstein – Actuarial Science Head and Contact
http://www.albany.edu/undergraduate_bulletin/department_mathematics_statistics.html

Simon Fraser University
Gary Parker – Actuarial Science Coordinator
http://www.stat.sfu.ca

Temple University
Bonnie Averbach – Associate Professor and Director
Krupa Viswanathan – Assistant Professor and Deaver Research Fellow
http://www.sbm.temple.edu/dept/rihm

University of California at Santa Barbara
Undergraduate Program Assistant
(805) 893-2129, South Hall 5607H
undergradinfo@pstat.ucsb.edu

Dawn Holmes
Undergraduate Advisor
(805) 893-8887, South Hall 5506
holmes@pstat.ucsb.edu
http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/instruction/actuary.htm

University of Central Florida
Actuarial Contacts – Stephen G. Kellison, Matthew Modisett, Jerry Han, Gary Gau
http://www.cas.ucf.edu/statistics/actuarial.htm

University of Connecticut
Louis Lombardi – Director, Undergraduate Actuarial
http://www.math.uconn.edu/actuarial/undergraduate.php

University of Florida
http://grove.ufl.edu/~fass/

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rick Gorvett – Director, Actuarial Science Program
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~gorvett

University of Iowa
Luke Tierney – Departmental Executive Officer
James Broffitt – Actuarial Science Undergraduate Advisor
http://www.stat.uiowa.edu

University of Louisville
Dr. Ewa Kubicka, ASA – Actuarial Program Director
http://www.math.louisville.edu/actuarial/ActuarialPage.html

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Curtis Huntington – Professor of Mathematics and Associate Chair
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/actuarial.shtml

University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Warren Luckner, FSA, CFA – Main Actuarial Science Contact
http://www.cba.unl.edu/dept/actuarial

University of New Mexico
Ron Christensen – faculty contact
http://www.stat.unm.edu/stats_actuarial.html

University of Regina
Prof. Larry Miller – Actuarial Program Director
http://www.math.uregina.ca/undergrad/actsci.html

University of Rochester
S.R.S. Rao Poduri, Ph.D. – Professor and Director of Statistics
http://www.rochester.edu/College/STT

University of Texas at Austin
Jim Daniel – Director of Actuarial Studies
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/dev/actuarial

University of Texas at Dallas
Sam Efromovich – faculty contact
http://www.utdallas.edu

University of the West Indies
Prof. Ronald Young – Department Head
Dr. Raymond McEachin – ActSci Section Leader
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dmcs/math_acsci.htm

University of Toronto
Samuel Broverman – Professor
http://www.utstat.toronto.edu

University of Washington

http://students.washington.edu/actuary

University of Waterloo
Mary Hardy – Professor
Ken Seng Tan – Professor / Advisor
http://www.stats.uwaterloo.ca

University of Western Ontario
Dr. Bruce L. Jones – Chair
Ms Jennifer Dungavell – Administrative Assistant
Prof. Serge Provost – Undergraduate Chair
http://www.stats.uwo.ca/

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Vytaras Brazauskas – Professor
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Math/Actuarial/actuarial.html

University of Wisconsin – Madison
Profs. Edward Frees – Act Sci Professor
Margie Rosenberg – Act Sci Professor
http://www.bus.wisc.edu/asrmi

Valparaiso University
Chair: Kimberly Pearson, Ph.D.
http://www.valpo.edu/actsci/

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jon Abraham – Actuarial Mathematics Coordinator
http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Math/Ugrad/actuarialsci.html

If you do not use one of the email services providers, you can always send emails to your friends the old fashion way, one email at a time. I’ve made it easier to link to the register page as well. Just cut and paste this link – http://www.ActuarialOutpost.com/register – and send it to your friends, and they’ll be on their way to becoming Outpost posters in no time. Also, be sure to remind them that we only accept non-anonymous email addresses for registrations, which means no Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail or other accounts like that.

P.S. Yes, I see the irony in that we do not accept new registrations from the email providers listed in the address importer, but I’ve added some simple directions in the invite email that will help get around this catch.

We have a number of places in the forum that this can come in handy, especially in the Software & Technology Forum. Perhaps you just learned a new trick and want to show it off; now you can upload it so the whole world can see! The max upload size is currently set at 2 megabytes, but that can be increased if you find a need to upload a larger document. If this is the case or you just need some help, feel free to send a private message or email to Tom . Enjoy!

A field of approximately 4200 amateur athletes competed in The Ninth Annual Reach the Beach Relay on September 14 & 15. At 203 miles, the running adventure relay is one of the nation’s longest distance race of its kind. A portion of profits from the race will benefit the New Hampshire State Parks and community organizations along the race route.

The race course is comprised of 36 segments or “legs”, covering a variety of terrain and difficulty levels, from fast and flat to steep and winding. From its start at Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch, the race heads south through Franconia Notch and then east through the White Mountain National Forest along the Kancamagus Highway, known for its spectacular panoramic views of the White Mountains. As the miles race by, the mountain scenery gives way to valleys, lakes and small New England villages in full foliage splendor. The competitors race southward through the night toward the New Hampshire seashore, and run the final ten miles of the course on route 1A alongside the Atlantic, to the finish at Hampton Beach State Park.

For more information, visit the Reach the Beach Relay website at http://www.rtbrelay.com.