I spent three weeks (July 6–26, 2025) in Park City, Utah, attending the Institute for Advanced Study’s Park City Mathematics Institute Graduate Summer School. The topic for 2025 was “Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics.” Each week there were three minicourses taught by leading experts along with research seminars and cross program lectures.

A title slide reading IAS PCMI Park City Mathematics Institute, a program of the Institute for Advanced Study, next to blackboards covered in notes from a lecture.

It was incredible being immersed in research and learning in such a beautiful location.

A view down a forested mountain valley near Park City, Utah.
Ann standing inside a large colorful geometric sculpture made of connected rods, in front of a building at Park City.