Talks, Seminars, Tutorials

• January 2012, LION 6, Tutorial, Addressing Numerical Black-Box Optimization: CMA-ES, (tentative slides 1.8MB)
• November 2011, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Lecture, CMA-ES – a Stochastic Second-Order Method for Function-Value Free Numerical Optimization, (slides 6.5MB)
• July 2011, Dublin, Tutorial at GECCO, CMA-ES (slides 1.6MB)
• May 2011, Toulouse, Atelier Outils et méthodes d'optimisation pour le GNC, Institut Aéronautique et Spatial de CNES, The CMA-ES and its Application to Space Flight Trajectory Optimization together with Dietmar Wolz (slides, first part 5.3MB)
• April 2011, Berlin, International Industrial Convention on Biomimetics, invited talk, Modern Evolution Strategies: Theory and Application
• September 2010, Krakow, Workshop on Self-tuning, self-configuring and self-generating search heuristics (Self* 2010) at PPSN XI, invited talk, Algorithm Design in Evolutionary Computation: Parameter Identification and Control (slides)
• July 2010, Portland, Tutorial at GECCO, Evolution Strategies and Covariance Matrix Adaptation (slides 1.5MB)
• November 2009, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, Seminar constraints, The difficulties of black-box optimization and a stochastic variable metric approach (slides, 2.5MB)
• October 2009, Birmingham, tutorial at the workshop for Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (TRSH), tutorial Theory of randomized search heuristics for continuous optimization
• July 2009, Montreal, Tutorial at GECCO, Evolution Strategies and Covariance Matrix Adaptation (slides 1.1MB)
• April 2009, Université Paris 6, Challenges for stochastic optimization and a variable metric approach (slides 1.7MB)
• September 2008, Dortmund, Tutorial at PPSN, Evolution Strategies and Related Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (slides 1.3MB)
• July 2008, Atlanta, Tutorial at GECCO, Evolution Strategies and Related Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (slides 1.3MB)
• May 2008, Microsoft Research-INRIA Joint Centre, First Search and Biology Day, Dynamic Problem Encoding for Optimization
(slides 1.3MB)
• April 2008, Lorentz Center Leiden, Tutorial—Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES)
• February 2008, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibnitz center for informatics, Toward a Convergence Proof for CMA-ES—and Beyond (slides 1.2MB)
• July 2007, University Kiel, Institute of CS, Stochastic Optimization in Continuous Domain: Challenges and Approaches (slides 2.5MB)
• September 2006, Reykjavik, Tutorial at PPSN, The Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA) Evolution Strategy (slides 1.7MB)
• February 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibnitz center for informatics, Step Length on Linear Fitness Functions—Self-Adaptation and Beyond (slides 0.6MB)
• December 2005, University Dortmund FB Statistik, Evolutionary Optimization and the CMA Evolution Strategy
• February 2004, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibnitz center for informatics, The Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA)—Yet Another Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA)?
• February 2000, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibnitz center for informatics, Keypoints in Strategy Parameter Control