HEAL researcher Monika Kofler is leaving for Australia where she will be staying for the next year. We would like to thank Monika for the great time that she has already been with us and the many hours that she has devoted to establish and grow our group. We wish her an enjoyable and successful time down under! Monika is determined to complete her thesis and deepen the ties with the University of Technology, Sydney.

Our group members had a great time at the Eurocast 2013 conference in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

We would like to remind everyone that the submission deadline for the upcoming Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft) Workshop at the GECCO 2013 conference is just 1.5 months away. Contributions can be submitted until March 28th, 2013 (hard deadline). For more information download the Call for Papers or check the Workshop Homepage.