SEMINAR ON TIME SERIES MODELING

Wednesday, April 24, in the Larrañeta Room. 

Hours: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. If you are interested in attending, write to mlarraneta@us.es with the following message in the subject line "Interest in participating in the Boland seminar".

Renewable energy, in the form of wind and solar, is becoming important contributors to the electricity supply mix. In this lecture we will examine statistical tools to predict the production of wind and solar farms at these time scales. In particular, we will study how to not only predict the expected production of wind or solar farms, but also put error limits on those predictions.  

John Boland is Professor of Environmental Mathematics and Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Research Center at the University of South Australia. Professor Boland has published more than 200 academic articles, approximately half of them co-authored with several doctoral students. He has completed thirty-five PhDs as director or co-supervisor (three of them in countries other than Australia) and is currently supervising five PhD students. His research covers a wide range of areas of what can be called environmental mathematics, from water resource management to the use of renewable energy, including the design of energy-efficient houses and environmental accounting. His work on short-term solar forecasting has led him to be part of the International Energy Agency's Tasks 46 and 16 on solar forecasting for high penetration of solar energy, made up of the leading experts in the field. He is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Modeling and Simulation Society and the Australian Energy Institute. His H-index on Google Scholar is 47.