Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Anne Auger: general chair of the ACM-GECCO 2019 conference that took place in July in Prague and welcomed ca. 700 participants.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Dimo Brockhoff: co-organizer of the Lorentz Center Workhop “MACODA: Many Criteria Optimization and Decision Analysis“, September 2019, Leiden, The Netherlands, 42 participants

• Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen, and Konstantinos Varelas: co-organizers of the Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking workshop (BBOB) at the ACM-GECCO 2019 conference.

• Anne Auger: Organizer of an invited session on Recent Advances on Randomized Derivative Free Optimization at the EURO conference, Dublin.

Scientific Events: Selection

Reviewer

• Dimo Brockhoff and Nikolaus Hansen: ACM-GECCO 2019

Dagstuhl seminar invitations

• Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff and Nikolaus Hansen invited at the Dagstuhl Seminar 19431 on “Theory of Randomized Optimization Heuristics”, October 2019

• Dimo Brockhoff invited at the Dagstuhl Seminar 20031 on “Scalability in Multiobjective Optimization”, January 2020

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff and Nikolaus Hansen: Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization

• Anne Auger and Nikolaus Hansen: Associate Editor of the Evolutionary Computation Journal

• Anne Auger is guest editor of an Algorithmica special issue of papers selected from the ACM-GECCO'2018 theory track

• Anne Auger is guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation special issue on Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Dimo Brockhoff: reviewed papers for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEETEC), European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Evolutionary Computation, and Journal of Global Optimization

Invited Talks

• Dimo Brockhoff: “Quality Indicator Maximization in Multiobjective Optimization Via Single-Objective Solvers: Unflattened Hypervolume Improvement in the Sofomore Framework”, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 2019

• Nikolaus Hansen: “How to Evolve Gradient Descent into Evolution Strategies and CMA-ES”, Journée de Rentrée du CMAP, Ecole polytechnique, Paris, October 2019

• Nikolaus Hansen: “How to Evolve Gradient Descent into Evolution Strategies and CMA-ES”, Symposium on Evolutionary Algorithms: Back to the Future and Beyond—Traversing the Ever-Evolving Landscape of Evolutionary Algorithms, Delft, The Netherlands, September 2019

• Nikolaus Hansen: Keynote lecture at the Workshop on Machine-Learning-Assisted Image Formation entitled “From Gradient-Based to Evolutionary Optimization”, Nice, France, June 2019

• Anne Auger: Convergence Results of Adaptive Evolution Strategies: an Overview, Lifeware seminar, January 2019

• Anne Auger: COMO-CMA-ES a linearly convergent multi-objective solver, ICCOP conference, Berlin

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Anne Auger, Elected Member of the ACM-SIGEVO executive board

• Dimo Brockhoff: member of the International Advisory Committee for EMO-2019 in East Lansing, USA

• Anne Auger, member of the conseil de laboratoire of the CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique.