Mon 25- Fri 29 May 2026

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. Poster

Courses

• Nils Berglund (Université d’Orléans) Topics in Gaussian Wiener chaos expansion (abstract)

• Giulia di Nunno (University of Oslo) TBA

• Frank Röttger (University of Twente) Probabilistic graphical models and their application to extreme value statistics

• SJS  Lectures: Subhabrata Sen (Harvard University) Recent progress in multi-modal data analysis (abstract)

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 13:00. 

Attending the Summer School remotely

The  lectures will be recorded and broadcasted  via zoom, using this link  with password 857705. Remote participation is free, if you are attending only remotely please register using this registration form for online participation.The timezome is EEST = UTC+3

Registration

Please register using this  registration form no later than saturday  9.5.2026.  

The participation fee (30 €) is to be paid on location in cash or by mobile pay. It is expected that the accommodation and travel costs of Ph.D. students will be paid by the graduate school from their own Universities or with their own research project funds. 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 travel grants to cover the accommodation costs (but not other travel costs) of participants who need support. Accommodation prices 

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 to be shared with summer school participants, by using the registration form or by sending an e-mail to the organizer. It will be fun to discuss each other posters at any time outside the lectures hours.  If you want you are also welcome to bring the printed version of your poster for display.

 

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, the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics and by the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki DOMAST.  For enquiries, contact the head of the organizing committee:

Dario Gasbarra
P.O.Box 700 (Wolffintie 34)
65101 University of Vaasa, Vaasa Finland
Phone: +358294498376
Email: dario.gasbarra ‘at’ uwasa.fi

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