2025
-Meeting new people in a incredible place
-The chance to connect with top-tier researchers from various sub-fields was very much appreciated!
-I enjoyed the winter school and I would highly recommend it. I learned so much that would help me in my research going forward. I connected with so many people that I will hopefully collaborate with in future and that was quite exciting to me.
-Karaoke was awesome, the best activity. I also loved snowshoeing, I just wished it lasted a bit longer
-I met people who share similar research interests and absolutely loved sharing ideas over the week. I would def consider reaching out to them for related topics and keeping in touch to maybe collaborate in the future.
-I had so much fun during the social activities. A good way to know each other and engage with other participants.
-Presentations were really impressive. Lot of details and every speaker made the effort to make their research accessible.
-The activities are one of the highlights of my experience in ALPS 2025.
-It’s was really cool. The snowshoeing was excellent. Free time is important to interact with people
2024
–The school was an excellent initiative and I hope I can attend it again in the future. Thank you to all the organizers!
–BoF and Karaoke were amazing! The place is great and nature activities, awesome 🙂 best winter school I have been!
–The location, the thorough organization and organizers, the discord were definitely a great addition that made the experience even nicer
–It was great ! Hard to take place in a better place
–Having such a narrow focus of topic with world class speakers attending is an extremely good concept and made ALPS stand out compared to other research schools I have attended (those had a much broader focus e.g. “Deep Learning”). Proximity to the mountains is another (non-scientific) plus and justifies the great name.
–The multiple mini poster sessions. allowed each person to understand and explain their work clearly without information ovrelaod.
–Best speakers and attendees. It was very nice to exchange ideas and realise that there are a lot of like-minded people
–I really liked the poster sessions and other activities (birds of a feather, nature activities and lunch times), where we could get to know each other’s topics, discuss about scientific subjects and know each other more personnally
–I really enjoyed this Winter school ; the lectures and speakers were great and available, the nature activities organized by Laurent awesome, I think you managed to find a very good balance between scientific activities and free time, the organization was really well done and everything made easy for the participants. Would definitly recommend
–Meeting a lot of great people (speakers and attendees), and discussing about advanced topics in NLP, in opposition to other more surface level summer school