GECCO program now available; registration rate rises June 8

[goodman@egr.msu.edu]

Dear Schedulers,

The full program for the GECCO-2001 conference (Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation COnference - 2001) is now available at the
GECCO web site, www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001.  The conference will include
24 tutorials, 14 workshops, 167 refereed papers, 115 refereed posters,
and 82 late-breaking papers!  The conference will be held in San Francisco
from July 7-11.  

June 7 is also the last day to register for GECCO-2001 at a discounted
rate (the early rate deadline passed last month, and the "late" rate is
only in effect until June 7 (postmark or receipt of on-line or faxed
registrations).  After that, regular rates go up $40, and student rates
by $20.  So if you've been planning to attend, but haven't yet
registered, this is the time to do it!  Also, you should line up your
hotel accommodations very soon, to maximize convenience and minimize
cost.

GECCO includes a scheduling workshop, another about representations
useful for scheduling, etc., and a scheduling tutorial.  Many of the
technical sessions are also concerned with scheduling and other
combinatorial problems, so it's a great place to learn about others'
current work in this EXCITING field! GECCO is the oldest and largest 
conference in the field, combining the ICGA (started in 1985) and the 
Genetic Programming Conference.  

I hope to see you there!

Erik
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Erik D. Goodman, Director, Case Center for Comp.-Aided Engr. and Mfg.
Director, MSU Manufacturing Research Consortium  
Co-Director, Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group (GARAGe)
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