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Summer School

SIGEVO SUMMER SCHOOL (S3)

Held in conjunction with the GECCO 2025 Conference, the SIGEVO Summer School (S3)  goes into round 8.

If you are a student intending to attend the SIGEVO Summer School, please follow this link to register.

The summer school will cover the following areas of knowledge:

  • General skills needed by GECCO researchers, e.g. reviewing, paper writing and presenting, as well as best practices for the empirical evaluation of evolutionary algorithms. Taught through lectures and small workshops led by summer school mentors.
  • In-depth knowledge about specific topics within GECCO, mostly through attending tutorials and workshops associated with GECCO, . Some mentor sessions will also be tailored towards specific research topics to allow for more in-depth discussions with an expert in the field.
  • Hands-on mentored Project, to deepen and apply the acquired knowledge.


The summer school is open to current PhD students and recent graduates. Stay tuned, more details, mentors, and the schedule will be announced here.

Important Information

  • Dates: 11-13 July 2025
  • Rectorate building of the University of Málaga
  • Address: Av. de Cervantes, 2, Distrito Centro, 29016 Málaga (Spain)- Google Maps

Registration Fees

For the summer school only (three days):

  • 55 EUR for SIGEVO members
  • 80 EUR for non-members

For the summer school plus two days of GECCO tutorials (but not attending the GECCO main conference):

  • 110 EUR for SIGEVO members
  • 160 EUR for non-members

Organisers

Confirmed Mentors

  • James McDermott
  • Manuel Lopez-Ibanez
  • Juergen Branke
  • Miguel Nicolau
  • Vanessa Volz
  • Diederick Vermetten
  • Thomas Stutzle
  • Elena Raponi

Preliminary Schedule

  • First part: Summer school:

    Dates: 11-13 July 2025
    Rectorate building of the University of Málaga
    Address: Av. de Cervantes, 2, Distrito Centro, 29016 Málaga (Spain) - Google Maps

  • Second part: GECCO tutorials (optional, but highly recommended):

    Dates: 14-15 July 2025
    NH Málaga
    Address: Calle San Jacinto, 2, 29007 Malaga (Spain) - Google Maps

Summer School 2025 HQ

Planned Talks

  • Tips for a good presentation
  • How to review a paper
  • Breaking into the community
  • How to (maybe) publish in top journals
  • Research and reproducibility

Planned Workshops

  • Algorithm Configuration Survival Guide
  • Interactive Performance Analysis for Sampling-Based Optimization with IOHanalyzer
  • Paper Discussion