If you haven't yet been to the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) annual meeting, now's the time. They're pulling out all the stops for the 10th anniversary at NYU Stern, June 21-23, 2017. There will be a good mix of financial ...
If you haven't yet been to the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) annual meeting, now's the time. They're pulling out all the stops for the 10th anniversary at NYU Stern, June 21-23, 2017. There will be a good mix of financial ...
Invitations to write for bogus journals and speak at bogus conferences keep rolling in. Here is one I received today. Dear Dr. Rob J. Hyndman, It is our great pleasure to welcome you to join in Part 2: Knowledge Economy Symposium of GCKE-2017, which will be held in Qingdao, China during September 19-21, 2017. And […]
Last year we had WOMBAT (Workshop Organized by the Monash Business Analytics Team) at the zoo, and MeDaScIn (Melbourne Data Science Initiative) in the city. This year we are combining forces to hold WOMBAT MeDaScIn 2017. There will be four days of tutorials (Monday 29 May to Thursday 1 June), and the main conference on […]
We are still looking for a few more invited sessions for the International Symposium on Forecasting, to be held in Cairns, Australia, 25-28 June 2017. An invited session consists of 3 or 4 talks around a specific, forecasting theme. You are allowed to be one of the speakers in a session you organize (although it […]
We know Australia is a long way to come for many forecasters, so we are making it easy for you to bring your families along to the International Symposium on Forecasting and have a vacation at the same time. During the International Symposium on Forecasting, there will be a social program organized for family and […]
The International Symposium on Forecasting is a little unusual for an academic conference in that it has always had a strong presence of forecasters working in business and industry as well as academic forecasters, mostly at universities. We value the combination and interaction as it helps the academics understand the sorts of problems facing forecasters […]
The Royal Economic Society has recently released videos of interviews with three leading econometricans, recorded during the Society's 2016 Meeting. These are: Econometric Methods: An interview with Bruce HansenAn interview with Andrew ChesherUsin...
The first ever RStudio conference was held January 11-14, 2017 in Orlando, FL. For anyone else like me who spends hours each working day staring into an RStudio session, the conference was truly excellent. The speaker lineup was diverse and covered lot...
Hints for conference benefit maximisation I am writing this post in a spartan bedroom in Glenn Hall at La Trobe University in Bundoora (Melbourne, Australia.) Some outrageously loud crows are doing what crows do best outside my window, and I … Continue reading →
We are currently calling for invited session proposals for the ISF to be held in Cairns, Australia, in June 2017. An invited session consists of 3 or 4 talks around a specific forecasting theme. You are allowed to be one of the speakers in a session you organize (although it is not necessary). So if […]
