Speakers

• Tara Abrishami, Stanford == Abrishami received her PhD from Princeton University in 2023. She was previously a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg and a Viterbi Fellow at SLMath, and is now an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford.

• Serte Donderwinkel, Groningen == Donderwinkel received her PhD from University of Oxford in 2022. She held a CRM-ISM postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University from 2022-2024, and is now an assistant professor at University of Groningen. She won the Royal Statistical Society’s prize for the UK’s best applied probability thesis in 2022 or 2023, and the Bernoulli Society’s New Researcher award for 2026 in probability theory.

• Quentin Dubroff, Carnegie-Mellon == Dubroff received his PhD in 2024 from Rutgers University. He then held a Donoho Postdoctoral Fellowship at SLMath, and is now a postdoctoral research associate at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Simon Griffiths, PUC Rio de Janeiro == Griffiths received his PhD in 2009 from Cambridge University. He held postdoctoral fellowships at Université de Montréal, McGill University, IMPA, and University of Oxford, and is now an Associate Professor of Mathematics at PUC Rio de Janeiro. He received the Fulkerson Prize in 2018. In 2021 he was elected as a membro afiliad of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

• Liana Yepremyan, Emory == Yepremyan received her PhD in 2016 from McGill University. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Oxford, and a Marie Curie fellowship at the London School of Economics, before joining Emory University in 2021. In 2025 she received the Emil Artin Junior Prize.