August 12-15, 2019
UC San Diego
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~slovett/workshops/robust-statistics-2019/

Registration deadline: July 31, 2019

Robust statistics and related topics offer ways to stress test estimators to the assumptions they are making. It offers insights into what makes some estimators behave well in the face of model misspecification, while others do not. In this summer school, we will revisit classic topics in robust statistics from an algorithmic perspective. We will cover recent progress on provably robust and computationally efficient parameter estimation in high-dimensions. We will compare this to other popular models, like agnostic learning and outlier detection. With the foundations in hand, we will explore modern topics like federated learning, semi-random models and connections to decision theory where being robust is formulated in alternative ways. We hope to have time for discussion about open questions like adversarial examples in deep learning, and invite the audience to help us muse about the right definitions to adopt in the first place.

September 10-15, 2019
Warsaw, Poland
https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~fopss19/

The Summer School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems (FoPSS) was jointly created by EATCS, ETAPS, ACM SIGLOG and ACM SIGPLAN. It was first organised in 2017. The goal is to introduce the participants to various aspects of computation theory and programming languages. The school, spread over a single week, is aimed at students and researchers in Theoretical Computer Science, broadly construed. Each year the school is focused on a particular, actively researched topic.

Our focus in 2019 are Nominal Techniques in Computer Science. For the introduction and cornerstone contributions to this area Murdoch J. Gabbay and Andrew M. Pitts received the 2019 Alonzo Church Award. Both of them are among the lecturers of FoPSS 2019.

July 29 – August 2, 2019
Linz, Austria
https://www3.risc.jku.at/conferences/aec2019/local.html

Registration deadline: June 16, 2019

The goal of this summer school is to put forward the interplay between the fields of Enumerative Combinatorics, Analytic
Combinatorics, and Algorithmics. This is a very active research area, which, aside from the three fields fueling each other
mutually, receives as well constant impetus from outside, by its interaction with algebra, probability, statistical physics, and computer science.

August 19-23, 2019
Saarbrücken, Germany
http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conferences/adfocs/

Registration deadline: July 19, 2019

ADFOCS is an international summer school held annually at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII). It is organized as part of the activities of the MPII, in particular the
International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS), MPII’s graduate program. The purpose of this summer school is to introduce young researchers to topics that are the focus of current research in theoretical computer science. We bring together three leading researchers in the field with international participants at the graduate level and above. The focus of ADFOCS 2019 is
“Games, Brains, and Distributed Computing.”