SEMINAR ON TIME SERIES MODELING

Wednesday, April 24, in the Larrañeta Room. 

Schedule: 11:00 to 13:00. Those interested in attending should write to mlarraneta@us.es with the following message in the subject line: "Interest in participating in the Boland seminar".

Renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, are becoming significant contributors to the electricity supply mix. This conference will examine statistical tools for predicting wind and solar farm output over these timescales. Specifically, we will explore how to not only predict the expected output of wind or solar farms but also establish error limits for those predictions. 

John Boland is Professor of Environmental Mathematics and Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Research Centre at the University of South Australia. Professor Boland has published over 200 academic articles, approximately half of them co-authored with several PhD students. He has completed 35 PhDs as supervisor or co-supervisor (three of them in countries other than Australia) and currently supervises five PhD students. His research spans a wide range of areas within what can be termed environmental mathematics, from water resource management and renewable energy utilization to the design of energy-efficient houses and environmental accounting. His work on short-term solar forecasting has led to his participation in the International Energy Agency's Tasks 46 and 16 on solar forecasting for high solar penetration, comprised of leading experts in the field. He is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Modelling and Simulation Society and the Australian Energy Institute. His h-index on Google Scholar is 47.