Mailing address:
Dr. James W. Daniel
4212 Cat Hollow Drive
Austin, TX 78731

Contacts:
Voice or FAX: 512/343-8788 [University number: 512/471-7168]
E-mail: jimdaniel@actuarialseminars.com


Background:
A lifelong academic, Jim Daniel became Director of the Actuarial Studies program at The University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and shortly thereafter began teaching exam-prep seminars in Austin (and, later, for a major international actuarial consulting firm).

 

By popular demand of my students, here's a big version of the above duck picture.

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Brief Résumé

• Education

• B.A.: Wabash College, 1962, mathematics & economics
• M.S.: Stanford University, 1963, mathematics
• Ph.D.: Stanford University, 1965, mathematics
• D.Sc. (Honorary): Wabash College, 1987
• Associate of the Society of Actuaries (A.S.A.), 1991
  

• Employment

• Paul V. Montgomery Professor of Actuarial Mathematics, and Director of Actuarial Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1989-present
• University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2005-present
  
• Tenured Associate Professor and then Professor of Mathematics & Education & Computer Sciences, Mathematics Department Chair for 6 years, University of Texas at Austin, various periods in 1970-present
• Chief Scientist (basic research) in Europe & Middle East for U.S. Navy, London, 1983-85
• Assistant Professor then tenured Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1967-70

• Professional activities

• Member, Society of Actuaries, and Actuaries Club of the Southwest
• Correspondent, Casualty Actuarial Society
• Founder and leader of international organization of actuarial educators
• Author of three college textbooks (one on Mathematical Interest Theory for actuarieal students) and two research books
• Author of 47 research papers and 34 expository papers
• Chair of committees supervising three journals and seven book series of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), 1993-1998, 2006-present
  
• Member, Executive Committee of the MAA Board of Governors, 2000-present
• Editor of series of mathematics books for general audiences, 1986-1989
• Vice-president, international applied-mathematics society (SIAM), 1986-90
• Consultant to government and industry
• Teacher of intensive seminars for student actuaries preparing for Exams MLC and C
• Menber of the joint SoA/CAS Task Force that drafted the new preliminary education system that went into effect in May 2005
• Chair of the SoA team that drafted the detailed syllabus for the new Exam M first given in May 2005