- Written by: Thomas Weise
Today, on 2023-04-06, I gave the invited talk Frequency Fitness Assignment (FFA) [频率适应度分配] at the group workshop of the Chair of AI and Aerodynamics led by Prof. Dr. Bernd R. NOACK at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China [哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）]. The workshop had two sessions and featured eleven more highly interesting presentations, each outlining another exciting approach to aerodynamics and control. It was very cool to see the enormous progress that research has made in this field. Drones and air taxis will certainly have a huge and transformative impact on our society in the near future — and the talks clearly showed that optimization, machine learning, and AI will play an important role in both their design and control. It was a great honor to be invited by Prof. Noack to join this event and to have a chance to show our research there.
The talk on FFA is also available on our website, as slides pdf, as pre-packaged forty-minute video, and as a fifty-minute live recording from the workshop.
- Written by: Thomas Weise
Today, I presented the keynote speech Frequency Fitness Assignment [频率适应度分配] on 2023-03-25 at the 2023 International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Machine Vision and Intelligent Algorithms (PRMVIA) conference. The conference took place online and was very well attended, very well organized, and had an exciting program that offered several interesting talks and workshops. The keynote focuses on Frequency Fitness Assignment (FFA), an algorithm module that can be plugged into existing optimization algorithms. FFA prevents premature convergence to local optima and makes algorithms invariant under all injective transformations of the objective function value. This interesting feature is explained in comparison to the invariance properties of the (1+1) EA, Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms. Several results of FFA are presented. The talk is also available on our website, both as slides pdf and as forty-minute video.
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- Written by: Thomas Weise
On 2022-09-28, I attended the Fifteenth Sino German Seminar on Applied Higher Education [15. Deutsch-Chinesisches Symposium zur Anwendungsorientierten Hochschulausbildung] [第五届中德应用型高等教育研讨会暨] combined with the Second International Seminar on Cooperation in Dual Education in the Yangtze River Delta [2. Symposium zur Internationalen Zusammenarbeit der Dualen Ausbildung der Jangtze-Delta-Region] [第二届长三角双元制教育国际合作研讨会]. This event takes place every two years in our city Hefei (e.g., this year and 2020) and every other year in the German city Osnabrück. It is co-organized by Hefei University [合肥学院] and the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück and presented as well as strongly supported by the Ministry of Education of the Chinese Province Anhui and the Ministry of Science and Culture of the German province Lower Saxony. It is always a pleasure to attend and full of exciting talks by high-level professionals in applied education, offering deep insights, inspirations, and great networking opportunities. Like in 2020, it was a hybrid event with both presence and online talks. This year, it was a two-day symposium, taking place in a beautiful lakeside location. The attendance was very high – both physically and online – with delegates from many universities, the industry, politics, as well as other education organizations.
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- Written by: Thomas Weise
Today, on September 26, 2022, I attended the National Day Tea Party for People from All Walks of Life [合肥市各界人士迎国庆茶话会] in the city hall of Hefei [合肥市]. Like every year, was a very nice event, attended by people with many different professions and ranks. There were religious representatives, minorities, foreign experts, business leaders, political representatives from different parties, people from many different fields ranging from elder care to car manufacturing, and so on. I am always looking forward to this event.
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- Written by: Thomas Weise
On June 10, 2022, Hefei University [合肥学院] and the Deutsches Hochschulkonsortium für Internationale Kooperationen (DHIK) [德国高校国际合作联合会] signed a framework cooperation contract [Kooperationsvereinbarung zwischen der Universität Hefei und dem Deutschen Hochschulkonsortium für Internationale Kooperation (DHIK)] [合肥学院和德国高校国际合作联合会合作协议].
The DHIK is a group of more than 30 universities in Germany and Switzerland with focus on internationalizing study programmes in Mathematics, Computer Science, Natural Sciences, and Technology. In China, the DHIK already cooperates with the Tongji University [同济大学] – and now also with our Hefei University. The main goal of the framework contract is to construct several joint curricula and double-degree programmes, which allow for the bi-directional exchange of students. In these programmes, German professors will teach classes in China and the Chinese students will get the chance to study for two semesters in Germany. Vice versa, German students will be able to study at our Hefei University as well.
- Welcome to Dr. Pei XU
- Prof. Weise Attends the Hefei National Day Tea Party for People from All Walks of Life [奋斗百年路 启航新征程 合肥市各界人士迎国庆茶话会]
- Guest Lesson "Comparing Optimization Algorithm" at the University of Adelaide
- Research Talk by Prof. Xuejun WANG [王学军]: Some convergence results for weighted sums of dependent random variables and applications [2021-06-18]