The Department organizes lectures by distinguished scientists from abroad on topics of Statistics and Insurance Science. The following lectures that took place in recent years are indicative:

• Simulation Analysis of System Life when Component Lives are Determined by a Marked Point Process, Sheldon M. Ross, University of Southern California, USA.
• Research and Publication in Statistics, William H. Woodall, Virginia Tech, USA.
• Comparison of sampling plans by variables using the bootstrap and Monte Carlo simulations, Fernanda Otília Figueiredo, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
• Runs and extremes in a discrete time risk model, Serkan Eryilmaz, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey.
• The linear stochastic order and directed inference for multivariate ordered distributions, Ori Davidov, University of Haifa, Israel
• Bayesian Social Learning from Consumer, Marco Scarsini, LUISS, Italy
• A version of the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing, Konstantinos Kardaras, London School of Economics and Political Science, England
• Wiener-Hopf factorization and non-linear stochastic dynamical systems, Luís Castro, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Statistical process monitoring and variable selection algorithms, Giovanna Capizzi, University of Padua, Italy
• Polynomials, order statistics and risk models in Insurance and Epidemics, Claude Lefèvre, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• The Role of Kernels in Data Analysis: A Statistical Perspective, Marianthi Markatou, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY)
• Zero-Inflated processes: Estimated parameter case and extensions, Philippe Castagliola, Université de Nantes, France
• Single and Multi Index Models for Mean and Quantile Regression, Michael Akritas, Penn State University, USA
• Applying (Lean) Six Sigma in Services, Alex Kuiper, Institute of Business and Industrial Statistics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Scan statistics generated by some stationary sequence, George Haiman, Pierre and Marie Curie University – Paris 6, France

Distinguished professors from overseas universities have also taught courses in the Master Program of Applied Statistics:

• Pat Altham (University of Cambridge)
• Alan Agresti (University of Florida)
• Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University)
• Nikolaos Limnios (Universite de Technologie Compiegne)
• Marlos Viana (University of Illinois at Chicago)