After a 5-year hiatus and finding out that this was helpful to many people, I am reviving the list of schools. 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 March and September of 2025. And here they are:
(PS: For schools after September 2025, check the Winter 2025 / 2026 post)
Spring School and Workshop on Variational Analysis and Optimization 2025
March 10-15 (deadline: February 16)
Hanoi, Vietnam
NATCOR Stochastic Modelling
March 31 – April 4 (deadline not posted)
Lancaster, England
GIAN Course on Variational Analysis and Structure in Descent Systems and Optimization
April 14-18 (deadline: February 16)
Varanasi, India
PhD Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Law 2025
May 12-16 (deadline was March 3)
Tübingen, Germany
* Included on March 7
Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications
May 12-16 (deadline: February 16)
Como, Italy
DTU PES Summer School: Future Energy Systems: Leveraging Advanced Optimization, Data Sharing and AI for Market Design and Operation
May 18-23 (deadline was January 17)
Copenhagen, Denmark
2025 School on Column Generation
May 19-23 (deadline: March 3)
Paris, France
Modeling and Simulation with PDEs: Undergraduate Summer School
May 19-30 (deadline: February 14)
College Station, TX, United States
[for undergraduate students]
Healthcare Operational Research (HOpeR) Graduate School
May 26-30 (deadline: February 28)
Montreal, Canada
* Included on February 13
2025 Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop Summer School
June 2 (deadline not posted)
Minneapolis, MN, United States
* Included on March 27 by suggestion of Aleksandr Kazachkov
LANL Quantum Computing Summer School Fellowship
June 2 – August 8 (deadline was January 19)
Los Alamos, NM, United States
2025 Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology
June 3-5 (deadline: April 7)
Manchester, England
* Included on March 7
IPCO (Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization) Summer School
June 9-10 (deadline not posted)
Baltimore, MD, United States
PhD Summer School on Operations and Supply Chain Management
June 9-13 (deadline: March 23)
Liverpool, England
* Included on March 7
1st VeRoLog (EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization) PhD School
June 13-16 (deadline: February 28)
Trento, Italy
* Included on February 7 by suggestion of Alice Raffaele
Large Scale Optimization Summer School 2025
June 16-21 (deadline not posted)
Mumbai, India
* Included on March 27
17th Machine Learning and Advanced Statistics Summer School
June 16-27 (deadline: May 27 for early registration)
Madrid, Spain
* Included on May 24
23rd Annual Wolfram Summer School
June 22 – July 11 (deadline not posted)
Waltham, MA, United States
[for undergraduate students]
Artificial Intelligence and Games: 7th International Summer School
June 23-27 (deadline: March 1 for early registration)
Malmo, Sweden
PhD Course: Theoretical Foundations of Machine Learning (TFML)
June 23-27 (deadline: March 30)
Genoa, Italy
* Included on March 7
EURO PhD School on Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
June 26 – July 4 (deadline: February 18)
Lleida, Spain
EUROPT Summer School 2025
June 27-29
Southampton, England
* Included on September 22 (for future reference)
INFORMS Applied Probability Society (APS) Summer School
June 30 – July 3 (deadline not posted)
Atlanta, GA, United States
* Included on February 9 by suggestion of Siva Theja Maguluri
Summer School on Algorithms, Dynamics, and Information Flow in Networks (ADYN)
June 30 – July 4 (deadline not posted)
Dortmund, Germany
* Included on May 24
Machine Learning Summer School on Drug and Materials Discovery (MLSS^D 2025)
July 1-6 (deadline: April 19)
Krakow, Poland
PCMI 2025 Graduate Summer School: Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics
July 6-26 (deadline was January 15)
Park City, UT, United States
Hi! PARIS Summer School on AI & Data for Science, Business and Society
July 7-10 (deadline: June 27)
Palaiseau, France
* Included on May 24
NATCOR Simulation
July 7-11 (deadline not posted)
Southampton, England
AI for Health Summer School
July 7-11 (deadline: April 30 for early registration)
Lausanne, Switzerland
* Included on March 7
London Geometry and Machine Learning (LOGML) Summer School 2025
July 7-11 (deadline: April 6)
London, England
* Included on March 24
European Association for Data Science (EuADS) Summer School 2025: Automated Data Science
July 8 – July 11 (deadline was May 20)
Luxembourg
* Included on May 24
Cooperative AI Summer School 2025
July 9-13
Marlow, England
* Included on September 22 (for future reference)
Cambridge Ellis Unit Summer School on Probabilistic Machine Learning 2025
July 14-18 (deadline not posted)
Cambridge, England
* Included on March 7
LxMLS 2025 – 15th Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School
July 19-25 (deadline: April 28)
Lisbon, Portugal
* Included on March 7
12th International Summer School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2025)
July 21-27 (deadline: February 21 for early registration)
Porto, Portugal
International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2025) Summer School
July 19-20 (deadline not posted)
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC 2025)
July 27 – August 8 (deadline: March 5)
St. Charles, IL, United States
The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School in Computer Science
July 28 – August 2 (deadline: February 15)
Saarbrucken, Germany
[for undergraduate students]
Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS)
Augustu 2-13 (deadline: March 20)
Arequipa, Peru
Brin Mathematics Research Center: Scientific Machine Learning
August 4-8 (deadline: March 1)
College Park, MD, United States
[for undergraduate students]
Laboratory for Optimization of Renewable Electric gRids (LORER) Summer School
August 4-8 (deadline: February 28)
Montreal, Canada
* Included on February 7 by suggestion of Cheng Guo
Trustworthy AI: Secure and Safe Foundation Models
August 4-8 (deadline not posted)
Saarbrücken, Germany
* Included on March 7
Satisfiability (SAT), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), and Automated Reasoning (AR) Summer School
August 6-8 (deadline: May 31)
St Andrews, Scotland
* Included on May 24
Simons Institute Workshop: Graph Learning Meets Theoretical Computer Science
August 11-15 (deadline not posted)
Berkeley, CA, United States
Gene Golub SIAM Summer School: Frontiers in Multidimensional Pattern Formation
August 11-26 (deadline: March 1)
Montreal, Canada
25th Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science (ADFOCS): Graph Decompositions and Efficient Algorithms
August 18-22 (deadline: July 14)
Saarbrucken, Germany
* Included on May 24
Summer School on Numerical Analysis
August 19-21 (deadline: July 1)
Jena, Germany
ACP Summer School 2025: Constraint Programming for Sustainable Development
August 25-29 (deadline: June 23)
Ouidah, Benin
2nd EURO PhD School: Data Science Meets Combinatorial Optimisation
August 25-29 (deadline not posted)
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
* Included on April 6
Summer School on Nonlinear Optimization and Combinatorics
August 28 – September 2 (deadline: June 20)
Braunschweig, Germany
* Included on May 24
NATCOR Combinatorial Optimization
September 1-5 (deadline not posted)
Bath, England
ELLIS Summer School: AI for Earth and Climate Sciences
September 1-5 (deadline: March 31 for first round of applications)
Jena, Germany
* Included on March 7
PRAIRIE / MIAI Artificial Intelligence Summer School (PAISS)
September 1-5
Grenoble, France
* Included on September 22 (for future reference)
CWI PhD School: Machine Learning and Optimization
September 2-4
Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Included on September 22 (for future reference)
Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School
September 8-12 (deadline was March 28)
Split, Croatia
* Included on April 18
Summer School on Multimodal Foundation Models and Generative AI
September 8-12
Rabat, Morocco
* Included on September 22 (for future reference)
NATCOR Forecasting & Predictive Analytics
September 15-19 (deadline not posted)
Lancaster, England
Nordic PhD Course in Stochastic Programming 2025
September 22-26 (deadline not posted)
Bergen, Norway
* Included on April 2
Winter schools (early announcement)
ICAPS (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling) Planning and Optimisation Summer School
November (details not posted yet)
Melbourne, Australia
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, and Summer 2020.
Thiago Serra 