Overview

The 3rd INTP Autumn School “Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology” will take place from October 6 to 11, 2025 in Ariège, in the French Pyrenees. Its target is an interdisciplinary audience of researchers (including graduate, post-doctoral and early career) with strong prior experience in theoretical community ecology and modelling.

Every edition draws on the previous ones to progress toward a more unified perspective on theory in community ecology. The program is constructed jointly by the lecturers, revisiting a broad …

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Sign up here - https://bit.ly/INTS_signup - until 8th June.

Fees include meals and accommodation.

If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to email contact@intp.science (anything logistics-related) or estere.seinkmane@gmail.com (anything content-related).

What is the concept?

This is a week-long “science summer camp” , a.k.a interdisciplinary school at INTP in the French Pyrenees. There will be one overarching interdisciplinary topic - “Communities”. Each day we explore this topic from perspectives of different fields (Ecology, Sociology, Microbiology etc), as a “mini-project” - …

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Fees include meals and accommodation.

Facilitator: Pavel Chvykov pchvykov@umich.edu

This is a meditation retreat. It's also a time you can be productive in your research. But most importantly, it's a time to intentionally lean deeper into the joy of doing the work we love, together with like-minded people, surrounded by beautiful mountains.

The core of this will be a guided exploration of how to make our research itself a deep and joyful meditation practice. We will combine focused mindfulness practices …

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The residency consists of co-working sessions to progress on your research (writing, analysis, etc.) in the morning and physical activities (climbing, yoga, via ferrata, etc.) in the afternoon.

Co-working
We will suggest a group schedule, based on the Pomodoro technique, which has helped many participants progress and stay motivated in prior work retreats at INTP (e.g. for thesis writing). You are free to opt out if you prefer a different experience.

Physical activities
One guided mountain sport is included in …

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Organizer: Wylie Ahmed (CNRS, Université de Toulouse)

Invited Speakers:
Nicholas Brubaker (CSUF, USA)
Jay McMahon (CU Boulder, USA)

This workshop brings together researchers interested in applications of AI to understanding stochastic
dynamical systems. It is broadly defined to connect people across disciplines including physics, math, engineering, biology, and medicine. It will include tutorials, lectures, and discussions to stimulate cross-
disciplinary collaborations.

Some topics:
Classifying emergent behaviors with variational autoencoders
Geophysics, asteroids, and DL-based uncertainty propagation
Social, economic, and ethical considerations …

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This school is an overview of community ecology for interdisciplinary theoreticians, in particular physicists and applied mathematicians.

See here for more details on this upcoming event!

This 3-day workshop in Microbial Community Ecology aims to bring together scientists (researchers, engineers...) working on microbial communities in diverse contexts, help create a common language with an overview of key ideas and tools spanning community ecology, and foster new collaborations and ways of approaching data, experiments or teaching this topic at the interconnection of many expertises.

More information on the dedicated page.

This 3-day school in Microbial Community Ecology aimed to give an overview of the key concepts and tools from community ecology (from coexistence to complex networks), that can enrich the way we think about and study microbiomes, plan experiments and analyze data.

More information: http://intp.science/content/microbial-community-ecology-2024-autumn-school

We happily hosted 11 students including 10 from several laboratories associated with the CLAPAS Key Initiative (University of Montpellier), see news here.

This residency period, we have welcome INTP friend Juan Giral, as well as Mathilde Defourneaux, Maya Tsur and Toyo Vignal.

All of them are either PhD students or recently elevated to doctor (in Toyo's case, congratulations!), all have an artistic inclination, and as well as personal projects, we shared drawing sessions, discussions about how to teach science through art, and an upcoming thesis chapter-turned-comic book.

More on this soon!

Solène Pichereau (@sedeto), illustrator, graphic designer and singer, came to the INTP for a week in residence to create a traditionally animated clip for one of her songs.

She ran a drawing from life session with all our residents, and offered us a preview screening of her music video accompanied by live singing.