A summer school for MSc and PhD students, on the mathematical foundations of data science. This is the second edition of a global annual summer school (2024 edition in Australia, 2026 edition in Singapore)
Confirmed Speakers
- Francis Bach (INRIA) - Structured prediction: supervised learning beyond binary classification
- Afonso S. Bandeira (ETH Zürich) - Random matrices and tensor PCA
- Stéphane Mallat (Collège de France) - Image generation from score diffusion to renormalisation group in physics
- Shahar Mendelson - Do we really need the Rademacher Complexities? A quick tour through the history of Learning Theory.
- Andrea Montanari (Stanford University) - Feature learning and overfitting
- Gabriel Peyré (ENS) - Diffusion flows and optimal transport in machine learning
- Tselil Schramm (Stanford) - cancelled
- Nati Srebro (TTIC) - McCulloch, Pitts, Shanon, Turing and LLMs: (Universal) Learning and Computational Models from Neural Nets to Transformers
Dates and venue
Sept. 1-5 2025, Bernoulli Center, EPFL (Switzerland)
Program
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:50 | Announcements | ||||
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Mallat | Mallat | Montanari | Peyré | Bach |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Bandeira | Montanari | Peyre | Bach | Srebro |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Bandeira | Mendelson | Free afternoon | Srebro | Discussions |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | Poster session | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 | Poster session | Optional: Bach’s talk | |||
| 18:00 | Cocktail (here) |
How to attend
Applications are now closed. All admitted applicants have been notified by email. Due to an exceptionally high number of applications—far exceeding the number of available spots—we had to make many difficult decisions during the selection process.
The lectures will be live broadcasted on this zoom link
The self-service “Foodlab” restaurants are located around here.
Some suggestions for the free afternoon
- Take the cable train up to Rochers-de-Naye
- Walk on the river side between Villeneuve and Montreux
- Walk in the wineyards of the Terrasses du Lavaux
Recorded lectures
Click here to watch the recorded lectures.
Organizers
E. Abbe, P. Bartlett, N. Boumal, L. Chizat, G. Lugosi, S. Mendelson, R. Vershynin
Contact
mathsdata2025@gmail.com