Event Details

The Prob_AI Hub is running its second Probabilistic AI Winter School from 5th to 8th January 2027, at the University of Bristol.

The Prob_AI Hub is running its second Probabilistic AI Winter School from 5th to 8th January 2027, at the University of Bristol. This School is targeted at PhD students, academic researchers, and professionals; and features world-leading researchers from academia and industry speaking about recent advances in AI and machine learning. The school has a particular focus on the mathematical aspects and underpinnings of AI.

Speakers

Confirmed speakers are:

• Sara Magliacane, University of Amsterdam (https://saramagliacane.github.io/)
• Anna Korba, ENSAE (https://akorba.github.io/)
• Alex Townsend. Cornell University (https://math.cornell.edu/alex-townsend)
• Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics (https://callmespring.github.io/)
• Giovanni Stabile, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (https://www.giovannistabile.com/)
• Mark van der Wilk, University of Oxford (https://mvdw.uk/)

Topics covered in the Winter School:

• Causality
• Computational Optimal Transport
• Operator Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Machine Learning for PDEs
• Neural Processes

Fees/Funding

The winter school is free to attend, but we expect attendees to cover their accommodation and travel costs (for example, with funding from their institution or employer to pay for this).

We realise that for a small number of potential attendees, getting funding to cover the accommodation/travel costs might be a barrier to participation (for example, if their institution has a funding restriction). We also recognise that some attendees may have additional costs for attending due to disability or caring responsibilities. We have created an ‘Access Fund’ to help with these situations. If participation costs might prevent you from attending the school, you can apply for Access Funding. This funding is intended for students from under-resourced and under-represented communities, and to support those with additional access costs due to disability or caring responsibilities.

Please note that we can offer only a small amount of funding and the Access Fund is only available to people based in the UK.

Venue

The winter school will be held at the University of Bristol. The event will be hosted by the School of Mathematics in the historic Fry Building.

Fry Building, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG

Further information, including detailed access information can be found here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/maths/fry-building/

Accommodation

Bristol has many hotels in the vicinity of the venue that can be booked for this event.

Application

Places are limited and we strongly encourage early application to have the best likelihood of getting a place. Applications must be received by Friday 19^th June. If you need to apply to the Access Fund, then this can be done as part of the application process.

The Winter School is open to anyone worldwide. However, priority will be given to applicants based in the UK (as the Prob_AI Hub is UK funded).

Application form: Prob_AI Hub - Bristol Winter School 2027 - Registration Form – Fill in form

Organisers

The winter school organising committee is as follows:

Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster University), Anthony Lee (University of Bristol), Christophe Andrieu (University of Bristol), Catherine Powell (University of Manchester), Song Liu (University of Bristol), Andreas Makris (Lancaster University), Liam Llamazares (Lancaster University), Ben Kent (University of Cambridge), Craig Walker (Prob_AI Hub), Shelley Watson (Prob_AI Hub).

If you have any questions, please contact: probaihub@lancaster.ac.uk

The Prob_AI Hub acknowledges the support of EPSRC (EP/Y028783/1).