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AbstractIn this seminar, we will share what data science looks like in practice at Munich Re and HSB and how the skills students develop in statistics and computer science translate into industry applications. We will introduce Munich Re and HSB, discuss the role of data scientists within the organization, and walk through two example projects: a risk modeling application using conditional density modeling and a GenAI use case in the insurance domain. We will also share information about our 2027 Data Science Internship Program. BiosYue Du, Senior Data Scientist, HSBHer current work focuses on developing and implementing statistical and ML models, and AI applications in cyber insurance and market research.

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Mud from a fjord shows an Atlantic air pattern brought wetter, colder spells to southern Greenland, a clue to how its ice may fare. Greenland’s ice is shrinking as the planet warms. But in the island’s southwest, rainfall and snowfall have been influenced by the same North Atlantic air-pressure pattern for at least 5,000 years. When that pattern tipped one way, the region turned wetter and colder. The record comes from mud on the floor of a Greenland fjord, and it suggests snowfall, not only temperature, shaped how the area’s ice grew and shrank. It doesn’t yet show how glaciers there will respond to the warming ahead. Johan Faust, a researcher at MARUM, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in Germany, led the work with colleagues in Germany, Norway, Denmark and Canada. A seesaw in the airThe pattern is called the North Atlantic Oscillation. It’s the difference in air pressure between a low that sits near Iceland and a high near the Azores, and it’s strongest in winter. When that difference is large, the pattern is in its positive phase. Northwestern Europe and southwestern Greenland both get more rain and snow.