User:PawelW

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Name
Paweł Widera
Country
Poland
Education

Research interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Heuristics and metaheuristics
  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Evolutionary algorithms

E-mail
Website
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~plw/

Scientific highlights
  • Best short presentation award at the 5th East Midland Proteomics Workshop
Dissemination
Year 4 (Sep 2008 - Aug 2009)

Talks

Conferences

  • EURO XIII, Bonn, Germany (2009-07-06 - 2009-07-08)
  • CEC 2009, Trondheim, Norway (2009-05-18 - 2009-05-20)
  • Mini EURO-CBBM Conference, Rome, Italy (2008-09-15 - 2008-09-17)

Publications

  • P. Widera, J.M. Garibaldi, N. Krasnogor, Evolutionary design of the energy function for protein structure prediction, CEC 2009, submitted
Year 3 (Sep 2007 - Aug 2008)

Talks

  • Structure prediction for CASP7 targets using extensive all-atom refinement with Rosetta@home
    2008-04-18, Computational Foundations of Nanoscience Journal Club (45 min)
  • Metaheuristic for the protein structure comparison
    2007-10-19, ASAP group seminar (30 min)

Publications

  • P. Widera, J.M. Garibaldi, N. Krasnogor, GP challange: evolving the energy function for protein structure prediction, GPEM, submitted
Year 2 (Sep 2006 - Aug 2007)

Talks

Conferences

  • EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic (2007-07-09 - 2007-07-11)
  • EURO-CBBM Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic (2007-07-08)
  • 5th East Midland Proteomics Workshop, Nottingham Trent University (2006-11-15)
Year 1 (Sep 2005 - Aug 2006)

Talks

Conferences

  • EURO XXI, Reykjavík, Iceland (2006-07-03 - 2006-07-05)
  • Nottingham High Performance Computing Conference, University of Nottingham (2006-01-19)
Networking, teaching and training activities
Year 4 (Sep 2008 - Aug 2009)

Fellowship meetings

  • BIOPTRAIN Workshop, Florence, Italy, (2009-06-10 - 2009-06-11)
  • BIOPTRAIN Meeting, Innsbruck, Austria, (2009-01-12)
Year 3 (Sep 2007 - Aug 2008)

Communication skills

  • Further Presentation Skills, Graduate School (2008-03-06)
  • Presentation Skills - Building Confidence (Science and Engineering), Graduate School (2007-10-09)

Research skills

  • Problem Exploration in Research, Graduate School (2007-11-09)
Year 2 (Sep 2006 - Aug 2007)

Fellowship meetings

  • 2007‑01‑09, School of Computer Science

Communication skills

  • Academic Writing Module - Research Writing (2006-10-10 - 2006-12-05)

Research skills

  • Planning Research and Time Management, Graduate School (2006-12-12)
  • Nature of the PhD and the Supervision Process, Graduate School (2006-11-27)

Courses

  • Post-genomics and Bioinformatics, School of Biosciences (2007-02-12 - 2007-02-14)
  • Computing and Molecular Biology, School of Biology (2006-11-21 - 2006-11-22)
  • Protein Folding, School of Chemistry (2006-10-02 - 2006-11-07)
Year 1 (Sep 2005 - Aug 2006)

Fellowship meetings

  • 2006‑07‑12, School of Computer Science
  • 2006‑03‑02, School of Computer Science

Communication skills

  • Academic Speaking Module - Discussion Skills (2006-02-14 - 2006-03-21)

Research skills

  • Research Practice, School of Computer Science (2006-02-02 - 2006-05-31)

Courses

  • Artificial Intelligence Methods (selected lectures), School of Computer Science (April 2006)

Training events

  • New Research Staff Induction, University of Nottingham (2006‑04‑27)
  • Activity Review Training, University of Nottingham (2006-03-24)
Ongoing activity
Year 4 (Sep 2008 - Aug 2009)
  • ProCKSI consensus experiments
  • research publication
  • thesis writing
Year 3 (Sep 2007 - Aug 2008)
  • GP design improvements
  • energy function experiments
  • decoys potential evaluation
Year 2 (Sep 2006 - Aug 2007)
  • initial predictor pipeline
  • literature review (protein folding potentials)
  • results processing and behaviour analysis
  • Max-CMO experiments run on cluster
Year 1 (Sep 2005 - Aug 2006)
  • implementation of Tabu Search for Max-CMO
  • Max-CMO problem analysis
  • literature review (protein structure comparison/prediction)
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