Topical Meeting: Evaluating Epidemic Forecasts

Tuesday April 21, 2026; Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University. Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg.
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Evaluating Epidemic Forecasts
ABSTRACT

Predicting the further course of an epidemic is an important task in mathematical modelling, but often turns out to be challenging. Careful monitoring of prediction performance is therefore necessary to characterize the potential and limits of predictive modelling in different settings.

This meeting is concerned with statistical and applied questions in the evaluation of epidemic forecasts: what makes for a good forecast? How can we separate strong from weak models? What distinguishes epidemic forecasting from fields like weather forecasting and economics, and what can we learn from them?

REGISTRATION

You can express your interest in participation and submit an abstract here. Registration is possible until 13 April, but a waiting list may be opened before this date in case the capacity of the venue is reached. Abstracts should be submitted as soon as possible and before 7 April.

Update: As we reached the capacity of our venue, we have opened a waiting list. You can join it via the link above.

Participation includes a vegetarian lunch and is free of charge.

ORGANIZERS

The workshop is organized by Johannes Bracher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Sebastian Funk (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).

If you have any questions please contact us at contact∂swim-workshop.de.

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