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Outstanding International Journal of Forecasting paper on Energy Forecasting

During the closing ceremony of the ISF2022 Symposium in Oxford, professor Pierre Pinson presented the Outstanding paper in Energy Forecasting award for an article published in the International Journal of Forecasting in the years 2019-2020: B. Uniejewski, G. Marcjasz, R.

Weronika Nitka receives the Best Youngster Presentation award at the ICCF 2022 conference

Weronika Nitka, a PhD student from our Department, received one of three Best Youngster Presentation awards at the International Conference on Computational Finance (ICCF 2022), which has just ended in Wuppertal. Weronika presented the paper entitled “Calibration window selection based

New Departmental “Highly Cited Paper”

Article coauthored by Asha Thomas: G.D. Sharma, A. Thomas, J. Paul (2021) Reviving tourism industry post-COVID-19: A resilience-based framework, Tourism Management Perspectives 37, 100786 (doi: 10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100786) has received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic

4+ departmental articles in IF journals and CORE A conferences (December 2021-April 2022)

In the last 5 months 3 departmental articles have been published in impact factor (IF) journals: K. Dębicki, E. Hashorva, Z. Michna (2022) On the continuity of Pickands constants, Journal of Applied Probability 59(1), 187-201 (doi: 10.1017/jpr.2021.42). M. Goerigk, A.

Bartosz Uniejewski wins Jan Mozrzymas Scholarship – now it’s official!

On April 25, the Mayor presented the scholarships awarded in November 2021. Among others, the Jan Mozrzymas Scholarship of the Wrocław Academic Center (WCA) in the field of interdisciplinary research for Bartosz Uniejewski. Now officially – congratulations!

Popular science article on the dawn of machine learning in electricity price forecasting

A popular science article on the dawn of machine learning in electricity price forecasting coauthored by Arek Jędrzejewski, Jesus Lago, Grzegorz Marcjasz and Rafał Weron has just appeared in the IEEE Power & Energy Magazine. Final published (restricted access) version: https://doi.org/10.1109/MPE.2022.3150809,

Crash course on electricity price forecasting

At the Applied Machine Learning Days 2022 @EPFL ?? Rafał Weron gave a talk, basically a “crash course” on electricity price forecasting. The recording is now available on YouTube. Enjoy watching!

New employees in our Department

On March 1st, 2022 Ewa Broszkiewicz-Suwaj, Piotr Nyczka and Asha Thomas joined our Department. Ewa has background in Applied Math (MSc, PhD); she has worked as a quant and is interested in financial modeling, risk management and forecasting. Piotr is

Job offer: Postdoc in the NCN MAESTRO CrossFIT project

We have an opening for a postdoc in the NCN MAESTRO Crossing Frontiers in electricity prIce forecasTing (CrossFIT) project in one of the world’s top research teams ? Remuneration: 120,000 PLN per annum before tax Contract for: 24 months Employment

16+ departmental articles in IF journals and CORE A conferences (May-November 2021)

In the last 7 months 10 departmental articles have been published in impact factor (IF) journals: Y. Chawla, G. Chodak (2021) Social media marketing for businesses: organic promotions of web-links on Facebook, Journal of Business Research 135, 49-65 (doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.06.020).