Sarah L. Thomson 🦈

I. MET. A. WOMBAT!!!!

The Bat Nebula, 500 light years away from Earth! 🦇

An English Country Garden

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@gih82 @EvostarConf Brilliant!!

No less than six papers (out of six) from my group accepted at @EvostarConf this year! Let's get ready to invade Trieste!😅

Didn't quite make the GECCO submission deadline? No worries: submit to our GECCO fitness landscape workshop (deadline in April)!! Pictured: a landscape navigation approach. @n_veerapen @aliefooghe @GeccoConf

All the moons of the year 2023

@EralLabTs @el_saliby @DiaUnits @GNadizar @EricaSalvato1 @EricMedvetTs Well done Michel! 🤟

This was the first conference talk by @el_saliby, who is completing his master degree at @DiaUnits in weeks. The paper is a groupwork by @GNadizar, @EricaSalvato1, @SilverHaxt, and @EricMedvetTs. #bravitutti! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

We are in 🇧🇪#Namur at #wivace2024 where @el_saliby just presented our work on "Factors Impacting 🏞️Landscape Ruggedness in 🤖Control Problems" (👉🏼 medvet.inginf.units.it/publications/2…): brilliant presentation, bravissimo the speaker!

@kawarimasen @penousal She is appalled 😭 adorable!!!!

@penousal @SilverHaxt 👆 Note the hashtag #catsforkamala

My cat is appalled by last night debate and demands Trump stop using cat's reputation in his canpaign. "Yes, cats are crazy, but not that crazy! prrrrr", she said. #Debate2024 #catsforkamala #kamala

@RomanKalkreuth Perfect weather for me ;)

When you attend PPSN in Austria from Saturday onwards, please be aware that temperatures are currently droping in central Europe. Temperatures are expected to range between 7°C to 18°C. So please pack accordingly t1p.de/7f45r

@hannah_janmo @GeccoConf @ShikhaSurana01 @thomas_pierrot @CULLYAntoine OK WOW this sounds so cool!! I'll try to attend your talk! 💎💎

I’m excited to share work that I’ll be presenting at @GeccoConf next month, where we use Quality-Diversity Algorithms for discovering diverse crystal materials 💎✨ Done with Marta Wolinska, @ShikhaSurana01, @thomas_pierrot , Aron Walsh and @CULLYAntoine

@Beska @kawarimasen

Much happier in an actual and hastily bought tank. Anyway I have a fish now. 👍

🐟 So today I found a goldfish just on the grass in my back garden. It was alive, I think, and have absolutely no idea where it came from. There’s no ponds anywhere near. So I took it inside….

Paper 2: "A Deep Dive into Effects of Structural Bias on CMA-ES Performance Along Affine Trajectories" w/ @NikivStein and Anna V. Kononova. @PPSN2024 @EdNapierSCEBE

@RomanKalkreuth Awesome Roman! Do you know if the acceptance rate will still be approx 40%, or will it be lower?

304 paper submitted to PPSN this year. 🥳 This is a significant increase to the 183 papers that were submitted to PPSN in 2022. Happy to hear about this!

@NikivStein @HartEmma @EdNapierSCEBE @GeccoConf Thanks so much Niki and well done to you too⚡️totally understand re: GECCO, we will meet hopefully at PPSN or a research visit before that ;)

@SilverHaxt @HartEmma @EdNapierSCEBE @GeccoConf Congratulations @SilverHaxt 👏🏻🎉 ! We got one full paper accepted and two posters, but one we will resubmit ☺️. Would look forward to seeing you at Gecco, however it is a few oceans too far this year for me.

@Mujtaba_Hassan @HartEmma @EdNapierSCEBE @GeccoConf Thanks Mujtaba and well done!! See you there maybe :)

@SilverHaxt @HartEmma @EdNapierSCEBE @GeccoConf Congratulations. My paper is also accepted. If I get student travel grant then see you there.

@RomanKalkreuth @HartEmma @EdNapierSCEBE @GeccoConf @PeterANBosman Thank you Roman!! :)

@SilverHaxt @HartEmma @EdNapierSCEBE @GeccoConf @PeterANBosman Great news! Congratulations!

@RomanKalkreuth Brilliant Roman, congrats!!

Excited to announce that I will join the Chair for Artificial Intelligence Methodology at RWTH Aachen University in Germany with the academic rank of an assistant professor. Grateful for the supervisors of my postdoctoral phase: Günter Rudolph, Carola Doerr and Thomas Bäck