The Bocconi-StatML Summer School in Statistics and Probability is hosted by the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies at Villa del Grumello, on the shores of the Lake of Como, usually in July. The School continues the tradition of the summer schools in Statistics and Probability that Università Bocconi had been organizing since the early ’90s, and held in Torgnon, Val d’Aosta, until 2008. Since 2021, the school is organized by Bocconi in collaboration with the University of Oxford and Imperial College, London, and is held in alternating years in the UK and in Como.

The aim of the Bocconi-StatML Summer School in Statistics and Probability is to establish a track of high level courses on advanced and cutting-edge topics in Statistics and Probability. The Summer School offers lectures delivered by internationally leading scholars on the specific designated topic, and supervised tutorials.

The 2026 edition of the school is held at Villa del Grumello, Como, July 8-17, 2026. 

The topic is Causality and Graphical Models. The main instructor is Professor Aad van der Vaart (Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, TU Delft). 

The summer school is co-sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

Past Editions

2017: Statistical Causal Learning

2018: Graphical models

2019: Random Graphs and Complex Networks

2022: Random Structures and Combinatorial Statistics

2023: StatML-Bocconi summer school in Causality, Reinforcement Learning and Statistical Learning

2024: Bocconi-StatLML: Statistical science for understanding climate and the Earth system

2025: StatML-Bocconi summer school in Computational Optimal Transport and Statistical Learning with Missing Values.