Invited Talks, Seminars, Tutorials

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

April 2008, Lorentz Center Leiden, Tutorial—Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES)
February 2008, Schloss Dagstuhl, 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, 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, The Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA)—Yet Another Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA)?
February 2000, Schloss Dagstuhl, Keypoints in Strategy Parameter Control