At this year's Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in Kyoto, our research group was again represented with a large delegation of experienced and young researchers. The GECCO Conference is one of the most important and prestigious conferences for the latest high-quality results in genetic and evolutionary computation since 1999.

Gabriel Kronberger and Stephan Winkler visited the Genetic Programming in Theory and Practice (GPTP) Workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workshop is an annual event hosted by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan.

We would like to congratulate our colleague Michael Kommenda who successfully defended his PhD thesis! Michael is one of our longest researchers and joined HEAL in 2008. He has done his PhD-thesis "Local Optimization and Complexity Control for Symbolic Regression" at the JKU - supervised by FH-Prof. PD DI Dr. Michael Affenzeller and a.Univ.Prof Dr. Josef Küng.