On Thursday, December 9, at Pavillon Desjardins, Université Laval, there will be the '1st Graduate Students Workshop in Actuarial Science' with talks by Seyed Saeed Ahmadi, Concordia University, Montreal (Estimation of the dynamic force of mortality based on generalized linear model), Zied Ben-Salah, Université de Montréal, Montréal (Lévy systems and the time value of ruin for spectrally positive Markov additive processes), Florent Toureille, Université Laval, Québec (Risk models based on time series for count random variables), Ramin Okhrati, Concordia University Montreal (Detecting inconsistencies in bond markets), Romuald Momeya, Université de Montréal, Montréal (Local risk-minimization under a partially observed Markov-modulated exponential Lévy  model) and finally Khouzeima Moutanabbir, Université Laval, Québec (An international investment model: the accumulation value analysis and asset allocation problems under inflation).