Founded in 1971, the Saint-Flour Probability Summer School is organised
every year by the mathematics department of the Université Blaise Pascal
at Clermont-Ferrand, France, and held in the pleasant surroundings of an
18th century seminary building in the city of Saint-Flour, located in
the French Massif Central, at an altitude of 900 m.
It attracts a mixed audience of up to 70 PhD students, instructors and
researchers interested in probability theory, statistics, and their
applications, and lasts 2 weeks. Each summer it provides, in three
high-level courses presented by international specialists, a
comprehensive study of some subfields in probability theory or
statistics. The participants thus have the opportunity to interact with
these specialists and also to present their own research work in short
lectures.
The lecture courses are written up by their authors for publication in
the LNM series.