Mon 27 – Fri 31 May 2024

Lammi, Finland

The mission of this traditional summer school is to provide one-week intensive courses on active research topics in probability and statistics, lectured by leading scholars in the field. The school is targeted primarily for doctoral students in probability, statistics, and related areas. Advanced MSc students, fresh postdocs and everyone in the research and applied field are welcome too. FLYER

Courses

• Jüri Lember (University of Tartu) Pairwise Markov Models (abstract)

• Kostiantyn Ralchenko  (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) Fractional Vasicek model: Asymptotic properties and statistical inference

• Roland Speicher (Universität des Saarlandes) Free Probability and Random Matrices (abstract)

• Josep Vives (Universitat de Barcelona) Malliavin-Skorohod calculus for additive processes with applications to Finance and Insurance (abstract)

Summer school participants may also enroll in the FDNSS intensive course Topics in statistical inference that is organised in parallel at the same place (subject to a separate registration).

Venue

Lammi Biological Station (map) is located by Lake Pääjärvi in the village of Lammi, district of Kanta-Häme, 120 km to the north of Helsinki. The nearest towns are Hämeenlinna (about 45 km) and Lahti (about 40 km), from which there are frequent bus connections (www.matkahuolto.fi/en/,www.onnibus.com/home) to Lammi. Weather in Lammi

Schedule            

The summer school starts on Monday at 12:50 and ends on Friday at 12:00.

Attending the Summer School remotely

The lectures will be recorded and broadcasted online via this zoom meeting link . Remote participation is free, if you are attending the summer school only remotely please register here.

Virtual Poster Session

With 4 minicourses this year it won’t be possible to schedule contributed talks. Participants who are willing to contribute by presenting their own work, have the opportunity to do so in a “virtual” poster session. Submit title, abstract and slides of your poster presentation by using the registration form or by sending an e-mail to the organizer. The posters will be published on this website, and  it will be fun to discuss each other posters at any time outside the lectures hours. In case you wish to share your poster only with summer school participants, submit only your title and abstract and use the telegram group of the summer school to share your slides.  If you want you are also welcome to bring the printed version of your poster for display.

Registration 

Please register by using this registration form 

The participation fee (30 €) is to be paid on location in cash. It is expected that the accommodation and travel costs of Ph.D. students will be paid by the graduate school from their own Universities. Remote attendance is free. If you are a Ph.D. student, please ask first from your supervisor or your local graduate school coordinator. The FDNSS organization can also award grants to cover the accommodation costs (but not other travel costs) of participants who need support. Accommodation prices and discounts for undergraduates.

Photos from a previous summer school in Lammi

Photos courtesy of Anni Laitinen.

Organizers

The school is organized by the Finnish Doctoral Education Network in Stochastics and Statistics (FDNSS), it is sponsored by the Bernoulli Society and financially supported by the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation and by the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics (DOMAST) of the University of Helsinki.  For enquiries, contact the head of the organization committee:

Dario Gasbarra
PL 68 (Pietari Kalmin katu 5)
00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358 29 4151407
Email: dario.gasbarra ‘at’ helsinki.fi

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