Quantum Designs, Stark Units
and Hilbert’s 12th Problem

The programme Quantum Designs, Stark Units and Hilbert’s 12th Problem will take place from 31 May to 18 June 2027 at the Bernoulli Center at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. The meeting will focus on SIC-POVMs and their connections with number theory-including the Stark conjectures-frame theory, and quantum physics. Its aim is to create sustained opportunities for specialists […]

Learning over Structured
High-Dimensional Objects:
Theory and Complexity

Many modern, large-scale datasets are structured as graphs, matrices, tensors, and other combinatorial objects. A central challenge across mathematics, statistics, and theoretical computer science is to understand the limits of inference, when these limits can be achieved computationally, and where fundamental barriers arise. Recent progress has provided evidence of computational-statistical gaps in many such problems. Low-degree […]

Isogenies of Abelian Varieties & Applications to Post-Quantum Cryptography

This workshop is part of the Bernoulli Center programme at EPFL, to be held from 16 to 20 November 2026. This workshop is dedicated to the emerging role of higher-dimensional abelian varieties in post-quantum cryptography. Bringing together experts in arithmetic geometry and cryptography, it will showcase state-of-the-art research, explore open challenges, and foster new collaborations […]

Learning and Information Theory (LITH)

This workshop is part of the Bernoulli Center programme at EPFL and will take place from 23 to 24 February 2026. Please note it will not be held at the Bernoulli Center, but instead at the IC Faculty. In recent years, information-theoretic and statistical tools have led to new breakthroughs in various areas of machine […]

Nonlinear Markov Processes, Dirichlet forms, and PDEs

This workshop is part of the Bernoulli Center programme at EPFL, to be held from 20 to 23 October 2026. The workshop aims to bring together leading experts and promising junior scientists in the fields of nonlinear Dirichlet forms and nonlinear Markov processes, two emerging research areas at the interface between stochastic analysis, functional analysis, […]

The Thermodynamics of Collisionless Plasmas

The first workshop on “The Thermodynamics of Collisionless Plasmas” will be held from 05 to 07 October 2026 at the Bernoulli Center, EPFL, Switzerland, overlooking Lac Léman. This workshop will bring together researchers from plasma physics, statistical mechanics, and astrophysics. The goal is to foster interdisciplinary exchange, establish a shared framework, and identify emerging challenges […]

Facets of Frobenius-derived invariants

This workshop is part of the Bernoulli Center programme at EPFL, to be held from 28 September to 02 October 2026. Numerical invariants, such as the Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity and F-signature, encoding dynamical properties of the Frobenius endomorphism play a crucial role in prime characteristic singularity theory of algebraic varieties. Yet the nature of the generating […]

Unifying geometric perspectives on the Hitchin moduli space

This workshop is part of the Bernoulli Center programme at EPFL, to be held from 10 to 14 August 2026. Since its appearance in Hitchin’s seminal work, the moduli space of Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface has occupied a central position in algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics, and low-dimensional topology. In the same paper, […]