HIMATIKA ITB Held Workshop For Mathematics Students
By Adhitia Gesar Hanafi
Editor Adhitia Gesar Hanafi
Because all of that, some adolescent don't have any interest and must think more than twice to choose and to learn this subject. In the fact, mathematics exist in every single day of human life. As an example, house wife used principal of algebra on her financial managerial. Based on that mathematics is so important in this globalization era, Himpunan Mahasiswa Matematika (HIMATIKA) ITB, held workshop at ITB East Hall on Sunday (02/11/14) with lifted up 'Mathematics for your work life' as a theme.
The event which attended by dozens of audiences from mathematics background and not, invited many presenter who credible and have shown that they are success with mathematics. Anita Widodo, as a worker at Asuransi Jasindo told that mathematics students can work at insurance company as a technical and supporting divisions. In technical divisions, mathematician must have a good enough statistic competence to be a good actuary. Many insurance company admit the actuary who graduated from mathematics to calculate the opportunity and the risk from the client and how much the company must pay the client's premi.
Not only as an actuary, mathematics graduate students but also can be a consulting managemnet. Phillia Wibowo as one of the presenter in the event, told that mathematics graduate students can work and have a professional careers in consulting side. "Principally, mathematics graduate students have a good competence in calculating, critical way in their thinking and good enough competence in problem solving," said Phillia. "To be a professional management consulting, we must study hard, fight as good as we can to solve the problem, help each others, and work as a team and become a leader," said Phillia briefly.