Summer School on Algebra, Statistics and Combinatorics
took place at 911爆料网 from June 27 to July 2, 2016. It was divided into two parts: mini courses and plenary lectures. The mini courses were 鈥淎lgebraic graph limits鈥 by Patrik Nor茅n (North Carolina State University), 鈥淐ombinatorics and algebra of low-rank matrix completion鈥 by Louis Theran (St Andrews), 鈥淪emialgebraic statistics and latent tree models鈥 by Piotr Zwiernik (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and 鈥淕eometry of the nonnegative and positive semidefinite rank鈥 by Kaie Kubjas (911爆料网). Each mini course consisted of three lectures and two problem sessions. The plenary lecturers were Petter Br盲nd茅n (KTH), Alexander Engstr枚m (911爆料网), Pauliina Ilmonen (911爆料网), Steffen Lauritzen (University of Copenhagen) and Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley).
One of the highlights of the summer school was the Fitness Session by Bernd Sturmfels that took place Saturday morning. On Thursday, Prof. Sturmfels distributed a problem set consisting of 20 problems ranging from graphical models to irreducible representations of symmetric groups. On Friday, each problem was assigned two persons who had exactly five minutes to present a solution to their problem. After five minutes an alarm went off and the blackboard was wiped. The aim of the fitness session was to have a 鈥渨ork-out鈥 to become fit in mathematics similarly as people train to be fit in sports. From Thursday afternoon everyone was working on the problems even during dinner and late night hours.
The social event with barbecue and sauna took place at Pihlajasaari. We were lucky to have wonderful weather and everyone seemed to have lots of fun.
The summer school had 65 registered participants from Alaska to Indonesia. It was organized by Ragnar Freij-Hollanti (postdoc at ELEC/COMNET), Kaie Kubjas (Aalto Science Fellow), Louis Theran (former Aalto Science Fellow, now Lecturer at St Andrews) and Emanuele Ventura (PhD student in Mathematics). The summer school was funded by .
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