Important information

  • Where : Université de Montréal, Complexe des Sciences – 1375 Ave. Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux, Montréal, QC H2V 0B3 (Acadie/Outremont Metro)
  • Dates: August 24-28, 9 AM – 5 PM
  • Price per person : 283 CAD

How to register?

  • Register before June 15, 2026
  • Send by email, a short CV + a paragraph of description
  • Who to contact? Timothée Poisot (timothee.poisot@umontreal.ca)

Course Description

We are excited to announce an upcoming workshop on Species Distribution Models (SDMs) for graduate students and post-docs, led by Andrea Paz Velez and Timothée Poisot (Université de Montréal). This five-day workshop will guide participants through the training, application, and interpretation of SDMs while introducing concepts from applied and interpretable machine learning. The week combines theoretical instruction and live-coding demonstrations with afternoon practice sessions in small groups, where participants will work through well-defined problems using various software.

The workshop is structured to build progressively toward independent work. Midweek includes a facilitated Design Workshop where participants develop a focused research question, which they then pursue through a guided data analysis project over the final two days.

By the end, learners will have practical skills in contemporary ML approaches to SDMs and be better equipped to interpret and communicate their outputs. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data, though curated datasets will be available for those who don’t.