Following up on a recent post about Summer 2025 schools, here is a new list. The purpose of organizing this is to help graduate students find a summer school to gain skills related to operations research. However, some opportunities are targeted to undergraduate students (they are marked). By a summer school for this post, I understand an event that matches a reasonable number among the following criteria: (1) typically lasting from a couple of days to a couple of weeks; (2) not-for-profit organization; (3) some of the presenters are academics and not local; (4) the event is relevant to students interested in operations research; (5) the main activity is not having the participants presenting papers; (6) registration fees are reasonably priced for a student audience; and (7) the event happens between October of 2025 and February of 2026. And here they are:
7th School on Belief Functions and their Applications (BFTA 2025)
October 19-23 (deadline was September 15)
Granada, Spain
Winter School on Causality and Explainable AI
October 20-24 (deadline: October 1)
Paris, France
LATAM School of Artificial Intelligence 2025
October 27-30 (deadline not posted)
Lima, Peru
Optimisation and Planning Summer School 2025
November 3-7 (deadline was July 31)
Melbourne, Australia
Nordic Winter School on Advanced Stochastic Optimization
December 1-5 (deadline was September 15)
Trondheim, Norway
São Paulo School of Advanced Science in Systems Change and Sustainability
December 8-17 (deadline was August 15)
São Paulo, Brazil
6th Annual Nepal AI School
December 29 – January 8 (deadline: October 16)
Kathmandu, Nepal
Northern Lights Deep Learning Winter School 2026
January 5-9 (deadline: October 3)
Tromso, Norway
21st Summer School on Discrete Math
January 5-9 (deadline: October 17)
Valparaiso, Chile
2nd Dolomites Winter School: Mean-field systems in finance, neurosciences and AI
January 11-16 (deadline was September 15)
Folgarida, Italy
Zinal Winter School on Data Science, Optimization and Operations Research
January 18-23 (deadline not posted)
Zinal, Switzerland
12th Winter School on Network Optimization
January 19-23 (deadline: October 15)
Estoril, Portugal
The Middle East and North Africa Machine Learning (MenaML) Winter School
January 24-29 (deadline was September 18)
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Swiss Winter School on Theoretical Computer Science
January 25-30 (deadline: October 24)
Zinal, Switzerland
51st International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM) PhD School: Introduction to Algorithms with Predictions
February 9 (deadline not posted)
Kraków, Poland
MLSS Melbourne 2026: The Future of AI Beyond LLMs
February 2-13 (deadline was August 31)
Melbourne, Australia
MBZUAI Machine Learning Winter School 2026: Representation Learning & GenAI
February 9-13 (deadline: October 10)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
10th AIROYoung Workshop and Ph.D. School
February 9-13 (deadline: December 12)
Padova, Italy
* Included on September 30 by suggestion of Alice Raffaele
Disclaimer
I do not vouch that all the information in this post is or will remain accurate, but I appreciate if you let me know if something is wrong. Moreover, if you know of other schools that are not listed here, please reach out to me ([first]-[last]@uiowa.edu). Like in previous semesters, I will keep updating this post and I may add some schools with past deadlines as reference for readers looking for schools in the next years. Here are the previous posts for reference: Summer 2016, Winter 2016 / 2017, Summer 2017, Winter 2017 / 2018, Summer 2018, Winter 2018 / 2019, Summer 2019, Winter 2019 / 2020, Summer 2020, and Summer 2025.
Thiago Serra 