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Thomas Bond Sprague Prize

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The 2015 Thomas Bond Sprague Prize has been awarded jointly to P Gurican of Trinity College and A Q Wang of St John's College, Cambridge, for distinguished performance in the 2015 Master of Mathematics/Master of Advanced Studies in Mathematics examinations, in the areas of actuarial science, mathematics of operational research, probability and statistics.

 Full details of the award can be found at www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/sprague.html

This article appeared in our August 2015 issue of The Actuary .
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