Blog entries for category "Greg's blog":
Sponsor me for the London Triathlon 2008!
Submitted by Greg on Wed, 30/07/2008 - 02:57. Keywords: announcements, personal, travelling.Hey!
most people who do a trip around the world to attend conferences and visit universities spend their free time looking at local sites, going to local museums or just relaxing in the hotel lobby. Sounds kinda boring, init?
This is why instead of all that
I am swimming/cycling/running the London triathlon!
On the 9th of August I will do a 750m swim, a 20km bike ride and a 5km run. The funniest thing is that while most people train before doing this kind of thing, I am travelling, so I spend most of my time attending conferences (i.e. sitting) in the day and, well, ehm.., socialising in a not most healthy way in the night. So I am quite curious how the triathlon will go!
Anyway, here is your part:
Due to late entry I was only able to enter the race through a charity. This means, they give you a place in the event and you agree to raise some money for them in return.
My target is to raise 200 GBP (ca. 450 AU$), so I need your support.
Leave me a message!
Submitted by Greg on Mon, 23/06/2008 - 02:26. Keywords: personal, professional.This post acts as a message board.
If you would like to leave an open message for me, just post a comment!
Knoxville and Gavrilets' lab
Submitted by Greg on Mon, 04/08/2008 - 01:40. Keywords: personal, professional, travelling.The reason I came to Knoxville was to visit Sergey's Gavrilets lab for theoretical evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee. Sergey is one of the leaders in the field and it was a very interesting visit.
Atlanta - Chattanooga - Knoxville
Submitted by Greg on Thu, 31/07/2008 - 02:28. Keywords: personal, travelling, USA.The trip from Atlanta to Knoxville was nice, northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee offer some beautiful nature.
GECCO'08
Submitted by Greg on Thu, 31/07/2008 - 00:41. Keywords: personal, professional, travelling, USA.The actual reason for my trip to Atlanta was attending GECCO - the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2008. I have published some work there and thus presented that work in form of 2 posters and a paper presentation at the Graduate Student Workshop. One paper was on protein pattern classifier learning [Paperin, 2008a], the other - a conceptual investigation into using my computational model of Gavrilets' Holey Fitnes Landscapes for preventing premature convergence in evolutionary optimisation algorithms [Paperin, 2008b].
The conference was a brilliant one, everyone I met there liked it a lot.
Atlanta
Submitted by Greg on Fri, 25/07/2008 - 14:17. Keywords: personal, travelling, USA.I went to Atlanta to take part in GECCO'08, but staying on for 2 days after the end of the conference I had a chance to explore the city. I did not like it. It made the impression of a third world county. Dirty, hot, loud, and so full of beggars that you cannot cross the street without being harassed for money. I have not seen so many homeless people in my life.
Go USA
Submitted by Greg on Thu, 24/07/2008 - 08:14. Keywords: personal, travelling, USA.The last few weeks before the departure for my world round rip were quite crazy. As it happens, I tried to do too much in a far too short time. All the idealistic plans about being ready for departure a week before the flight in order to take things easy turned out to be fatuous. Well, I should have expected that. At the end, I barely managed to finish most of this website and to release a new beta version of LiveGraph. The grandiose plans of writing a numerical analysis paper on holey fitness landscapes and starting the Dual Phase Evolution review paper fell sacrifice to the harsh reality and my inability to make realistic time estimates.