IlliGAL Blogging

I was perusing the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005) website and noticed that the slate of tutorials is the largest it has ever been:

Intro
Genetic Algorithms: Erik Goodman
Genetic Programming: John Koza
Evolution Strategies: Thomas Baeck
A Unified Approach to EC: Ken DeJong
Evolvable Hardware I: Tetsuya Higuchi
Linear GP: Wolfgang Banzhaf
Ant Colony Optimization: Christian Blum
Particle Swarm Intelligence: Russell Eberhart
Learning Classifier Systems: Tim Kovacs

Advanced
No Free Lunch (NFL), Darrell Whitley
Genetic Algorithm Theory, Jonathan Rowe
Bioinformatics, James A. Foster
Taxonomy and Coarse Graining in EC, Chris Stephens
Multiobjective Optimization with EC, Eckart Zitzler
Computational Complexity and EC, Ingo Wegener
Evolvable Hardware II, Adrian Stoica
Representations, Franz Rothlauf
Building on Biological Evolution, Ingo Rechenberg
Principled Efficiency Enhancement, Kumara Sastry
Generalized Hill Climbing Algorithms, Sheldon H. Jacobson
Statistics for EC, Steffan Christensen, Mark Wineberg

Applications & Techniques
Symbolic Regression in Genetic Programming, Maarten Keijzer
Grammatical Evolution, Conor Ryan
Quantum Computing, Lee Spector
Evolutionary Robotics, Dario Floreano
Evolutionary Music, Al Biles
Evolution and Resiliency, Terry Soule
Evolutionary Design, Ian Parmee
Interactive Evolution, Hideyuki Takagi
Optimization of Dynamic Environments, Juergen Branke
Spatially Structured EAs, Marco Tomassini
How to Start a GA Company, Zbigniew Michalewicz
Industrial Evolutionary Computation, A. Kordon, G. Smits, M. Kotanchek
In Vitro Molecular Evolution, Byoung-Tak Zhang
Evolving Neural Networks, Risto Mikkulainen
Experimental Research in EC, Mike Preuss, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
Fitness Approximation in EC, Yaochu Jin, Khaled Rasheed
Constraint-handling Techniques used with EAs, Carlos Coello-Coello
The XCS Learning Classifier System: From Theory to Application, Martin Butz
Experiences Implementing a GA-Based Optimizer in an Aerospace Engineering Application, Thomas Dickens
Fitness Landscapes and Problem Difficulty, Jean-Paul Watson

A number of the tutorials are being given by IlliGAL Blogging bloggers (Butz, Rothlauf, Sastry, and Takagi). Many conferences charge hundreds of dollars more for tutorial registration, but GECCO tutorials (and workshops) are included in the price of admission. If you're new to the genetic algorithms game or if you're an old hand wanting to brush up on the latest tricks, techniques, and applications, GECCO has tutorials to get you up to speed. More information is available on the tutorial page here.