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Luis E. Da Costa dacosta.le AT gmail DOT com -- ldacosta AT lri DOT fr (lab) Since April 1st., 2007, I have been working with Marc Schoenauer as a post-doctoral member of the TAO team (physically at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, LRI , Univ. Paris XI ). I am working on the general theme of evolutionary algorithms. On December 14th., 2006, I graduated with a Ph.D. from the Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). I was a student of the Laboratory for Imagery, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence (LIVIA) My primary research interest is the application of agent-based modeling techniques, evolutionary computation and non-linear systems analysis to the simulation of adaptive systems. [July, 2007] I went to GECCO in London; saw Richard Dawkins, Steve Wolpert and Steve Jones talking about Evolution and Complexity at the Museum of National History (see photos, video and article here and an article written by Steve Jones himself. I also presented our new development, GUIDE, in a GECCO's workshop (the slides are here (PDF file)). [December 14, 2006] I presented my PhD thesis today; in case you are interested, the Power Point and the complete thesis are available (just send me an email). My Jury was composed of Prof. Lael Parrott (Director of the Complex Systems Laboratory, U. de Montreal), and the professors at the ETS: Jacques-André Landry (my supervisor), Prof. Richard Lepage, Prof. Robert Sabourin and Prof. Natalia Nuno (President of the Jury). [November 2006] I gave a seminar at the CS department of the U. of Vermont (www.cs.uvm.edu/seminars/seminar_series.shtml). I was invited by Prof. Maggie Eppstein, with whom I had the pleasure to interact; I also met her graduate student, Josh Payne, and her colleague, Charles Goodnight. The Power Point of my presentation is here (2 Mb.), the paper I sent to Fractals with those results is here (around 500 kb.), and the environment I showed on my talk (and that I used on my thesis research) is downloadable here. [Summer 2005] I was given the opportunity to spend a month studying at the Complex Systems Summer School from the Santa Fe Institute. As you can see, lots of hard work and stress. Wonderful time. Luis and Laura en route to Baldy's summit