Friday Forecasting Talk: Smooth Forecasting with the Smooth Package in Python
Friday 5 June 2026, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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Event Details
Friday Forecasting Talk
A webinar for the release of the smooth package in the Python ecosystem, where it has been widely used in the R ecosystem. The core development team (Ivan Svetunkov from Lancaster University, Filotas Theodosiou from VIVES University, and Leonidas Tsaprounis from Microsoft) will be discussing the philosophy and the translation from R to Python, until it’s now ready to use! Resul Akay from Quantics.io has agreed to act as a discussant.
See you at our next webinar!
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/351961097987056?p=Jdg81L5XsxfShZpptH
Speakers
VIVES University
Management Science, Lancaster University
Ivan graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (SPbSUEF) in 2006 and defended the candidate dissertation in Economics in 2008. The thesis topic was "The Complex Variables Production Functions", which proposed a new type of production functions using complex numbers theory.
Microsoft
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