SIPTA
The Society for Imprecise Probabilities:
Theories and Applications

SIPTA School

The SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities is organized every even year, since 2004. The aim of the school is to introduce interested students to the basics of various imprecise probability topics, both theoretical and applied.

Some of the best specialists in different aspects of imprecise probabilities lecture, for about one week, on the main concepts and techniques in their area of expertise, in a friendly environment favouring interaction between participants. An important part of the time is devoted to the resolution of proposed exercises involving applied problems.

SIPTA School 2024

The Eleventh SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities took place from Monday 12 to Friday 16 August 2024 at Ghent University, Belgium. It was organised by Floris Persiau and Alexander Erreygers from the Foundations Lab on imprecise probability group, and funded by the Ghent University Doctoral School, Ghent University’s Department of Electronics and Information Systems and VAIA – the Flanders AI Academy. The school started with four days of lectures on a variety of topics, and concluded on Friday with a small-group research project on one of the topics touched by the lecturers. It’s of course impossible to fully replicate the experience of the school’s 47 participants and 7 lecturers, but you can at least partially relive the school by reading Adrián Detaverniers report on the SIPTA blog and by browsing through the lecture material and lecture videos on the school’s website.

Thank you to all involved for making this a very nice edition!

SIPTA School 2022

The Tenth SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities was hosted at the University of Bristol from August 15 to August 19, 2022. It was organised by the Epistemic Utility for Imprecise Probability group and funded generously by the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant 852677). The school was a hybrid event, involving both in-person sessions and virtual attendance via Zoom. We had 55 in-person participants with virtual attendance averaging in the 20s. The high attendance was likely due to (i) the hard work of past SIPTA summer school organisers and the reputation that the school has earned, (ii) the fantastic line-up of speakers, (iii) the inclusive nature of the Tenth SIPTA School which brought together both the philosophical and SIPTA communities, and (iv) bursaries which allowed students to travel from around the world. A full list of the topics and speakers is available on the school’s website, as are lecture materials (slides and exercises).

SIPTA School 2020/2021

The Ninth SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities was organised by the Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, UK. It was initially scheduled to take place in July 2020, in Liverpool, but had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. It eventually took place online during the winter of 2020-2021, as a series of separate lectures. All the school material, including recordings of the lectures, is available here.

Previous SIPTA Schools