After two months working as an assistant professor in the University of Tsukuba, things are starting to shape up. After a short dry spell, I got plenty of research projects going on. A tutorial paper with my former advisor, an application of GA/GP for cancer research with a professor I met in Morocco and some […]
Tomorrow I’m taking the plane to Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, to take part in the “Genetic Programming Theory and Practice” workshop. I’m pretty excited about the opportunity – there will be some of the bigger names in GP theory participating, and the structure of the workshop (few participants, lots of time for presentation and discussion) […]
Between Dec. 18th and 20th I visited Okinawa for the second time, to attend the 3rd Japanese Symposium on Evolutionary Computation. Since it was a school-paid trip, I was not allowed any extra days to have some fun in Okinawa, but I managed to squeeze some time before and after the conference. The report is […]
After a surprisingly punk week, I took the Friday to do some much cleaning in my apartment. While moving stuff around in my room, I found a incense set that I bought ages ago (perhaps when I still lived in the other apartment? I don’t quite remember). A set of aromatic candles, an oil holder, […]
Today professor Fukunaga from the Tokyo University of Engineering (Toukoudai), came to Toudai to make an invited lecture about Heuristics. I had a very nice chance to talk to him after his lecture, where we discussed some questions about my research which are likely to result in a chapter of my thesis (and possibly a […]