All times below are in UTC. For reference, at the moment 16UTC is 9:00 in Vancouver, 12:00 in Montreal, 18:00 in Zurich and midnight in Hong Kong. Lectures are roughly 1 hour long unless noted otherwise, and are followed by open group discussion. Participate on zoom (contact us for access), or watch a live-stream. We have an archive of courses from 2020.

Upcoming courses

In light of the ongoing pandemic and resulting travel difficulties, we will be running a series of minicourses this year as well. Courses will take place throughout July and August.

Schedule Speaker Title Links
2021
Various OOPS - I did it again

Completed courses - 2021

Schedule Speaker Title Links
July 12, 16:00
Pierre Tarres The *-Edge Reinforced random walk, bayesian statistics and statistical physics video slides
July 13, 16:00 video slides
July 15, 16:00 video slides
July 12, 18:00
Asaf Nachmias Local and global structure of uniform spanning trees video notes
July 13, 18:00 video notes
July 15, 18:00 video notes
July 19, 16:00
Nathanael Berestycki Multiplicative chaos: from Gaussian free field to Brownian loop-soup and back video notes
July 20, 16:00 video notes
July 22, 16:00 video notes
July 26, 16:00
Augusto Teixeira Quenched Multiscale Renormalization video slides
July 27, 16:00 video slides
July 29, 16:00 video slides
August 2, 16:00
Philippe Sosoe Fluctuation bounds for stationary polymers and interacting diffusions video slides
August 3, 16:00 video slides
August 5, 16:00 zoom slides
August 9, 16:00
Steve Evans Some tree-valued chains and their bridges video slides
August 10, 16:00 video slides
August 12, 16:00 video slides
August 9, 18:00
Evita Nestoridi Mixing time bounds, cutoff and limit profiles for Markov chains video slides
August 10, 18:00 video slides
August 12, 18:00 video slides
August 16, 16:00
Yilin Wang Large deviations of Schramm-Loewner evolutions and Weil-Petersson Teichmuller space video slides
August 17, 16:00 video slides
August 19, 16:00 video slides
August 23, 16:00
Lisa Hartung Log-correlated fields: Some useful tools video slides
August 24, 16:00 video slides
August 26, 16:00 video slides
September 1, 16:00
Massimiliano Gubinelli Facets of stochastic quantisation video slides
September 2, 16:00 video slides
September 3, 16:00 video slides

Completed courses - 2020

Schedule Speaker Title Links
May 18, 16:00 Jean-Christophe Mourrat Rank-one matrix estimation and Hamilton-Jacobi equations video notes
May 19, 16:00 video notes
May 21, 16:00 video notes
May 25 16:00 Gady Kozma Critical and near-critical percolation video slides
May 27, 16:00 video
May 28, 16:00 video
June 1, 16:00 Nina Gantert Branching random walks: some recent results and open questions video notes
June 2, 16:00 video notes
June 4, 16:00 video notes
June 5, 16:00 Piotr Dyszewski Branching random walks and stretched exponential tails video slides
June 5, 16:35 Sam Johnston The extremal particles of branching Brownian motion video
June 8, 16:00 Ivan Corwin Gibbsian line ensembles in integrable probability video slide
June 9, 16:00 video slide
June 9, 17:00 video slide
exercises and solutions(1)
June 11,12 Various Integrable Probability @ OOPS videos
June 15, 16:00 Perla Sousi Mixing and hitting times for Markov chains video notes
June 16, 16:00 video notes
June 18, 16:00 video notes
More: background [filling rule] [spectral methods] exercises
June 22, 16:00 Frank den Hollander and Elena Pulvirenti Metastability for interacting particle systems video slides
June 23, 16:00 video slides
June 25, 16:00 video slides
June 26, 16:00 video slides
Exercises Intro, Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3
June 29, 16:00 Aukosh Jagannath A Brief Introduction to Mean Field Spin Glass Models video slides
June 29, 17:30 video slides
June 30, 16:00 video slides
June 30, 17:30 video slides
July 1, 17:30 Exercises: Exercises
July 1, 16:00 Amin Coja Oghlan Disordered systems and random graphs video slides
July 2, 17:30 video slides
July 3, 16:00 video slides
July 2, 16:00 Eliran Subag TAP approach and optimization of full-RSB spherical spin glasses video
July 6, 16:00
Andrea Montanari Mean field methods in high-dimensional statistics and nonconvex optimization video slides
July 7, 16:00 video slides
July 8, 16:00 video slides
July 9, 16:00 video slides
July 10, 16:00 video slides
July 7,8, 17:30 Review session [exercise-1] [slides] [exercise-2] References
July 9, 17:30 Leo Miolane Information-theoretic limits of Bayesian inference in Gaussian noise video slides
July 13 16:00
Elchanan Mossel Simplicity and Complexity in Belief Propagation video slides
July 14 16:00 video slides
July 15 16:00 video slides
July 14,16 17:30 Review session
July 15 17:30 Shirshendu Ganguly Large deviations for sparse graphs video slides
July 16 16:00 video slides
July 17 16:00 video slides lecture notes
August 3, 16:00
Nina Holden Schramm-Loewner evolution and imaginary geometry video slides
August 4, 16:00 video slides
August 6, 16:00 video slides
August 10, 16:00
Tom Hutchcroft Uniform spanning trees in high dimension video slides
August 11, 16:00 video slides
August 13, 16:00 video slides