The next meeting of the National Seminar on Probability and Statistics will be held on April 21, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 503 of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. A talk on: How long does it take to train an Elephant Random Walk will be delivered by Zheng Fang (University of Zurich). Abstract: We study how conditioning on the first k steps, which we think of as training, affects the long-term behavior of the Elephant Random Walk. When the elephant is conditioned to be at position k at time k , the first return time to the origin scales as k^{(4−4p)⁄(3−4p)} in the diffusive regime, and grows exponentially in the critical regime. We loosely interpret this as a measurement of [...]