Our Current Activity --- Tiny-seminar-series to study AIS.

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The 1st Seminar (25 April 2004)

• When and Where?
  • On 25 April (Sunday) from 15.00
  • At room 410-A in 2nd building

• From the Call for Participation
  • It's not a duty to join the seminar. It's an informal seminar, instead. Please join with your FREE WILL if your are interested in. The seminar is essentially open to everyone.
  • Common Language will be, hopefully, English. I hope this is a good opportunity to present your idea in English. However, feel free to join the discussion in Russian too. This would be a good opportunity for the improvement of my Russian.
  • We think this informal seminar will be held regularly, say, once a month or twice a month. We are going to discuss this issue like "How often?" "Which day of the week?" and "What would be done?"
  • Hoping you will have fun,

• What was the Topic?
  • This time it was me (Akira) who gives talk to break the ice. I talked with the topics on
    • "An ultra simple but ultra difficult problem to approach --- A Needle in Haystack problem."
    • "What does the Artificial Immune System (AIS) look like, and what for?"
    • "How do we start something with this Artificial Immune System?"

• Who took part? (Alpahbetical order by family name, which I prefer.)
  • Sergei Besobrasov, Vladimir Golovko, Akira Imada, Dmitriy Kamenda, Andrei Kiris, Pavel Kochurko, Svetlana Lavrentieva, Dmitriy Maliuk, Stas Myasnikov, Olga Rodko.

The 2nd Seminar (12 May 2004)

• When and Where?
  • On 12 May (Wednesday) from 15.00.
  • At room 403 in 2nd building.

• What was the Topic?
  • "What is AIS more in detail, and how we implement it?" (Sergei Besobrasov)
  • (Spontaneous talk) "AIS could be exploited to keep a long history of previous games in Iterated Prisonner's Dillemma (IPD)." (Dasha)
  • (Spontaneous talk) "Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) and Ant Colony Optimization." (Vasilly Shut)

• Who took part? (Alpahbetical order, as usual.)
  • Sergei Besobrasov, Vladimir Golovko, Larisa Gorbashko, Akira Imada, Dmitriy Kamenda, Pavel Kochurko, Svetlana Lavrentieva, Dasha Mendel, Peter Seleznev, Vasilly Shut.

• Informal session afterwards over lots of fresh Brest beer at our excellent old beer house "Vector".
  • Talked a lot while drinking beers like whales --- Waw!

The 3rd Seminar (2 June 2004)

• When and Where?
  • On 2 June (Wednesday) from 15.00 at the room 401 in the 2nd building.

• What was the Topic?
  • "Steganography & AIS" (Andrey Kiris)
  • Spontaneous discussion about "What is Steganography and How we apply AIS?"

• Who took part? (Alpahbetical order, as usual.)
  • Sergei Besobrasov, Vladimir Golovko, Larisa Gorbashko, Akira Imada, Dmitriy Kamenda, Pavel Kochurko, Svetlana Lavrentieva, Dasha Mendel, plus three newly joined:
  • Evgeniy Gryazev, Evgeniy Ledak, Vitaliy Shevelenkov (Thank you for interest and active partisipation.)

• Informal session afterwards over just a couple (this time) of fresh beer at "Vector", (but) talking a lot like the last time. Alas, however! This rather exciting session should be the last one, for some reason. Hopefully, let's make it over coffee next time at our student bar, if any.