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Knoxville and Gavrilets' lab

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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.

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Sergey's book is popular in his lab
American-size Fosters after jogging
Gay Street in Knoxville
Knoxville city centre
US newspaper kiosk
Free Masons in Knoxville
Rotary in Knoxville
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

GECCO'08

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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.

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John Koza cairing the contest for evolved human competitive results
Winning presentation for the  evolved human competitive results contest
Me in front of my poster wall
People looking at my posters
Some GECCO'08 attendees
Jazz club playing country music
Some GECCO'08 attendees in a cafe-bar