<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Please find below the call for applications for the summer school in Decision and Theory for AI (DTAIL), at Leiden University.</font></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">The first edition of the DTAIL Summer School is targeted to Ph.D. students and researchers with an interest in theoretical AI and machine learning, and it will take place <b>JULY 13-17, 2026</b>, in Leiden (NL). </font></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">The summer school <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">will include lessons in the following 5 topics given by leading experts in the field: </span></font></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-16a414ba-7fff-68c1-74b4-faca7f390d6e" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Privacy </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Marco Avella-Medina, Columbia University)</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anytime valid hypothesis tests</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Peter Grünewald, Leiden University and CWI Amsterdam)</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explainable AI</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Tim van Erven, </span><span style="color: rgb(49, 52, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Amsterdam</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reinforcement llearning beyond benchmarks </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Claire Vernade, Nuremberg University)</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Algorithmic statistics </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Gergerly Neu, Barcelona University)</span></li></ul></p></font></span><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">The <b>deadline for applications</b> is <b>April 30th</b>, 2026.</font></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial">For more information, please visit <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fdtailsummerschool%2Fhome&data=05%7C02%7Cv.masarotto%40math.leidenuniv.nl%7Cd465b83e432044f5537e08de88f292a9%7Cca2a7f76dbd74ec091086b3d524fb7c8%7C0%7C0%7C639098772583683850%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EKhqQIhbHC0Oe9BzbsMJjtyC%2FPnW6pOE5QL7YyQDvRU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://sites.google.com/view/dtailsummerschool/home">https://sites.google.com/view/dtailsummerschool/home</a></font></span></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Please submit applications and inquiries at <a href="mailto:dtail@math.leidenuniv">dtail@math.leidenuniv</a>.nl</font></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"></div><div><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div class="elementToProof"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Best wishes,</font></div></div><div class="elementToProof"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div class="elementToProof"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The organising team</span></font></div></body></html>