Are there any PhD students in the crowd who want to learn more about forecasting? What about academic supervisors who have such students? Show me your hands! This post is for you!

This September, we (Lancaster Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting members) will deliver the Natcor course on Forecasting and Predictive Analytics at Lancaster University, UK. I’ll be acting as the course leader and I’m currently working on the schedule, aiming to make it both engaging and useful for participants.

The current plan is for the course to be delivered by our team members: Dr. Sven F. Crone, Anna Sroginis, Kandrika Pritularga, Nicos Pavlidis, Anna-Lena Sachs, and myself. The course will run over 5 days.

As for the content, we’ll start by covering the fundamentals of forecasting and gradually move on to more advanced statistical and machine learning approaches for forecasting and predictive analytics. As this course is designed specifically for PhD students, we’ll dive deeper into the material than we typically do in our Master’s level and in executive training courses. It will also be supported by real-life cases, of which the centre has accumulated many over the years, and discuss how forecasts translate to specific decisions and can be connected to the other OR-related topics.

You can find more details about the course here.

And register here (Note that NATCOR offers other excellent courses as well!).

Please share this post with your network if you know any PhD students or supervisors who might be interested.

P.S. Image in the post is partially related to what we will discuss, but is mainly here just to attract your attention 😝