Event Details

Prob_AI Winter School - Mathematical Foundations of Probabilistic AI

Event Overview

The Prob_AI Hub is running the first Mathematical Foundations of Probabilistic AI Winter School from 5th to 8th January 2026, at the University of Warwick. 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.

Topics

• Diffusion Generative AI
• Large Language Models
• Learning in Function Spaces
• Normalising Flows & Optimal Transport
• Uncertainty Quantification and Bayesian Deep Learning
• Ethics of AI

Speakers

Currently, our confirmed speakers are:

• Arnaud Doucet, Google DeepMind
• Marie-Therese Wolfram, University of Warwick
• Desi Ivanova, University of Oxford
• Jack Stilgoe, University College London
• Domenec Ruiz-Balet, Université Paris Dauphine
• James Hensman, Microsoft Research
• Yingzhen Li, University College London
• Nikola Kovachki, NVIDIA Research

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, however, we are actively working to secure additional funding to expand opportunities. The Access Fund is only available to people based in the UK.

Venue

The winter school will be held at the University of Warwick. This is hosted by the Department of Statistics, and it is expected that talks will take place in the Zeeman Building. Some accommodation for attendees will be available on campus at the University's conference facility (any available rooms will be on a first-come-first-served basis). There is also a wide range of other options, suitable for different budgets, nearby. Further details will be provided in due course.

Application

Places are limited and we strongly encourage early application to have the best likelihood of getting a place. We will make our first round of decisions on applications by the end of July. To be considered at this round, applications must be received by Monday 21^st July 2025. 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).

Applications for this event have now closed

Organisers

The winter school organising committee is as follows:

Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster University), Paul Jenkins (University of Warwick), Matthew Thorpe (University of Warwick), Jonas Latz (University of Manchester), Katerina Karoni (University of Bristol), Andreas Makris (Lancaster University), Zhengang Zhong (University of Warwick), Craig Walker (Prob_AI Hub), Shelley Watson (Prob_AI Hub)

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

Sponsors

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

Sponsors will be added in due course.