We invite you to the next lecture as part of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar. It will be delivered by prof. Rafał Weron of the Faculty of Management at Wrocław University of Science and Technology - a world expert in energy market forecasting.

The lecture “CrossFIT, or crossing boundaries in electricity price forecasting” is scheduled for Wednesday, June 9, in The Congress Centre (Janiszewskiego 8 Str.), beginning at 1:15 p.m.

Admission is free, advance registration via Evenea.pl is required (the lecture in Polish).

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Rafał Weron is Professor of Management Science, Rector's Proxy for the Evaluation of the Quality of Scientific Activity, Head of the Management and Quality Studies Discipline Council and Head of the Department of Operations Research and Business Intelligence at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

He is a member of the Academia Europaea - Academy of Europe, the Statistics and Econometrics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (KSiE PAN) and the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), General Chair of the Energy Finance Christmas (EFC) Workshops series and Associate Editor of Computational Statistics, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Energy Engineering, Journal of Energy Markets, National Economy and Operations Research and Decisions.

Over the last 25 years Rafał has built an impressive international reputation. With well over 7,000 Scopus-indexed citations (w/o auto-citations; H-index = 44) and well over 17,500 Google Scholar-indexed citations (H-index = 62), he is one of the leading world experts on energy forecasting. His other research interests include agent-based modeling and simulation, complex systems, computational economics, computational statistics and machine learning, financial engineering and risk management, stochastic modeling and time series analysis.

The event is co-organized by Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub.