Hamedan or Hamadan is located approximately 360 kilometres southwest of Tehran . It has appr. 500.000 habitants. Hamedan is believed to be among the oldest Iranian cities and one of the oldest in the world. It is in  a green mountainous area in the foothills of the 3,574-meter Alvand Mountain, in the midwest part of Iran.The special nature of this old city and its historic sites attract tourists during the spring and summer to this city. The main symbols of the city are the Ganj Nameh inscription, the Avecenna monument and the Ali Sadr cave, the world's biggest water cave.

More details can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamadan

• Søren Asmussen (Aarhus University)
• Kristina Lurz (prognostica GmbH)
• Rahim Mahmoudvand (Bu Ali Sina University)
• Paulo Canas Rodrigues (Federal University of Bahia)
• Farzaneh Safavimanesh (Shahid Beheshti University)
• Ehsan S. Soofi (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Refik Soyer (The George Washington University)

• Rahim Mahmoudvand
• Majid Sadeghifar
• Ebrahim Nasiroleslami
• Asghar Seif
• Ebrahim Amini-Seresht
• Rasool Soleymani

TBA

• Iranian Actuarial Society 
• Insurance Research Centre, Central Insurance of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan
• Thiele Centre, Aarhus University
• Professional Insurance Institute of Iran
• Young Business and Industrial Statisticians
• Iranian Statistical Society

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