The Ohio State University Department of Mathematics

ARC Program

The program book will continue to be updated until the start of the conference as we finalize a few remaining details.
We do not anticipate any significant changes to the overall schedule.
If you are presenting, you can search for your name in the program book to confirm your presentation time and room.

Program Book (Tentative)

ARC 2026 Program (Tentative; v6)917.78 KB

Daily Agenda

Tue, July 21

Event Venue: Pfahl Executive Education Building (Pfahl Hall 140)

Time Slot	Events
1:20 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.	Workshop I: Regulatory Challenges for AI in Insurance Moderator: Michelle Xia (Northern Illinois University) Panelists: • Lori Dashewich (Constellation Insurance, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer) • Fei Huang (UNSW) • Scott Shepherd (Constellation Insurance, Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer) • Shontael Starry (Nationwide, AI/Data Ethicist)"
2:50 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:10 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.	Workshop II: Offshore Reinsurance in Life Insurance Moderator: Martin Molloy (Ohio State University) Panelists: • Lori Dashewich (Constellation Insurance, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer) • Matt Elston (ODI, Chief Life Actuary) • Kyeonghee Kim (Florida State University, Assistant Professor) • Scott Shepherd (Constellation Insurance, Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer) • Philip Wunderlich (Nationwide, AVP)
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.	Reception (Blackwell Pavilion)

Wed, July 22

Conference Venue: Ohio Union

Time Slot	Events
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.	Opening Remarks
9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.	Plenary Session I
10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.	Invited/Breakout Sessions Academy Award for Research \| Cartoon Room (Steve Jackson; Olivier Cote; Shimeng Huang; Kim Ferrero) Health Insurance I \| Barbie Tootle Room (Yaniel Rivera Vega; Margie Rosenberg; Jeff Lin; Leo Zhang) Insurance Economics \| Hays Cape Room (Univa Song; Wenchu Li; Austin Riis-Due) Statistical and Machine Learning I \| Interfaith Prayer Reflection Room (Chengguo Weng; Vajira Manathunga; Félix Côté) P&C Insurance I \| Rosa M. Ailabouni Room (Hang Su; Carlos Matos; Anastasiia Kozlova) Dependence Modeling I \| Senate Chamber (Elina Moldavskaya; Lei Hua) Life Insurance \| Suzanne M. Scharer Room (Emmanuel Boamah; Minsik Kim; Yechao Meng)
12:20 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.	Lunch
1:50 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.	Plenary Session II (Daniel Bauer)
2:50 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:10 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.	Invited/Breakout Sessions Professionalism \| Cartoon Room (TBA) Statistical and Machine Learning II \| Barbie Tootle Room (Godfred Ahenkroa Kesse; Arnold Shapiro; Shimeng Huang) Dependence Modeling II \| Hays Cape Room (Mengqi Wang; Yinhuan Li; Rui Zong) Health Insurance II \| Interfaith Prayer Reflection Room (Bright Manu; Ian Duncan; Rob Lieberthal) Risk Modeling and Measurement I \| Rosa M. Ailabouni Room (Evan Cribbie; Zinoviy Landsman; Qian Zhao) Mortality and Longevity Modeling \| Senate Chamber (Emiliano Valdez; Kenneth Zhou; Wanying Fu; Barry Smith) P2P Insurance and Risk-Sharing \| Suzanne M. Scharer Room (Jiajie Yang; Youxi Zhang)
4:40 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Industry Insights

Thu, July 23

Conference Venue: Ohio Union

Time Slot	Events
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.	Plenary Session III (Phillip Yam)
10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.	Invited/Breakout Sessions CAS Research I \| Cartoon Room (Rob Lieberthal; Jeffrey Zheng; Jiayi Guo; Fang Yang) Health Insurance III \| Barbie Tootle Room (David Dussey; Kelvin Ansah; Carol Troy; Trevor Reckell) Loss Reserving and Ratemaking \| Hays Cape Room (Nii Okine; David Han; Jiandong Ren) Digital Accessibility \| Interfaith Prayer Reflection Room (Dan Poole) Education and Professional Development \| Rosa M. Ailabouni Room (Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen; Gabriel Necoechea; Bill Marella; Kevin Doran) Quantitative Finance I \| Senate Chamber (Shansong Huang; Bin Zou; Maxim Bichuch) Statistical and Machine Learning III \| Suzanne M. Scharer Room (Xing Wang; Cezar Campeanu)
12:20 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.	Lunch
1:50 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.	Plenary Session IV (Erica Baird)
2:50 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:10 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.	Breakout Sessions Blockchain, Telematics, and InsurTech \| Cartoon Room (Xiaochen Jing; Dung Pham; Adrian O Hagan) Optimal Control and Optimization \| Barbie Tootle Room (Tianrun Wang; Ibukun Amusan; Yi Wu) Risk Modeling and Measurement II \| Hays Cape Room (Min Shu; Natalia Humphreys; Mobasshira Zaman) P&C Insurance II \| Interfaith Prayer Reflection Room (Jackson Lautier; Mohammed Adjieteh; Michelle Xia) Health Insurance IV \| Rosa M. Ailabouni Room (Ramzi Abujamra; Xuan Tang) SOA and CAS Education \| Senate Chamber (Stuart Klugman; Maggie Lyons; Margaret Gaddy) Statistical and Machine Learning IV \| Suzanne M. Scharer Room (Panyi Dong; Jackie Siaw Tze Wong; Linjiao Wu)
4:40 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Industry Insights
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.	Banquet Location: Vitria on the Square

Fri, July 24

Conference Venue: Timashev Family Music Building

Time Slot	Events
8:30 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.	Breakfast
9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.	Plenary Session V (Fei Huang)
10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.	Breakout Sessions CAS Research II \| N120 (Rob Lieberthal; Maochao Xu) Quantitative Finance II \| N300 (Jayen Tan; Min Shu; Krzysztof Ostaszewski; Tice Sirmans) Catastrophic Risk Modeling \| N310 (Wei Wei; Hossam Mohamed; Simon Atoyire; Tatjana Miljkovic) Retirement and Pension Mathematics \| N408 (Brian Hartman; Jean-François Bégin; Kristen Moore) Climate Risk and Sustainability \| N410 (Mohak Dwarkadhish Sharma; Yasintorn Wongwoottisaroch; Zhongyi Yuan)
12:20 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks
12: 30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.	Boxed Lunches
1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Tour to Franklin Park Conservatory