From June 29 to July 6 of this year, YSU Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics organized the 7th summer school in the "Mathematics and Applications" series, held in Tsaghkadzor, under the title "Cryptography, Statistics, and Machine Learning."
The participants of the summer school were primarily bachelor’s and master’s students, alongside PhD candidates, researchers, and professionals in the field.
The school aimed to create a platform where experts from three modern and significant applied fields could share their knowledge, while participants had the opportunity to attend lectures by leading specialists, establish new professional connections, exchange ideas, and engage with one another. A total of 57 participants from 5 countries took part in the summer school. Nine invited lecturers delivered talks on the following topics:
Anna Harutyunyan (Google DeepMind, UK), Reinforcement learning: an anti-tutorial
Alex Iosevich (University of Rochester, USA), Fourier uncertainty and time series imputation
Gohar Kyureghyan (University of Rostock, Germany), Mathematics of symmetric cryptography
Gábor Lugosi (Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona School of Economics, Spain), Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory
Charles Margossian (Flatiron Institute, USA), Bayesian Statistics: a practical introduction
Shant Navasardyan (Picsart and YSU, Armenia), Generative AI with Diffusion Models
Razvan Pascanu (Google DeepMind, UK, and MILA, Canada), Intro to Deep Learning and LLMs
Armen Vagharshakyan (Institute of Mathematics, Armenia), Analytic methods in learning theory
Michal Valko (Stealth startup and INRIA, France), World Discovery Models and Gamification of Large Language Models
The main sponsor of the summer school was Fast Bank. Other sponsors and partners included Yerevan State University, the Research Mathematics Foundation, the MoESCS’s Higher Education and Science Committee (including the A. Vagharshakyan 24RL-1A028 research grant), TOR LLC, the PMI Science Research Center in Armenia, CodeSignal, and individual contributors Arthur Dadasyan and Avet Kolyan.
