User:PawelW
From Bioptrain
- Name
- Paweł Widera
- Country
- Poland
- Education
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- M.Sc. in Computing Science at Poznań Univeristy of Technology (specialty: Intelligent Decision Support)
- B.Sc. in Computing Science at PUT
- Research interests
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- Bioinformatics
- Heuristics and metaheuristics
- Combinatorial optimization
- Artificial Intelligence
- Evolutionary algorithms
- ku.ca.tton.sc@wlp
- Website
- http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~plw/
Year 4 (Sep 2008 - Aug 2009)
Talks
- Structure similarity consensus as a measure of quality in protein structure prediction
2009-07-06, Bonn, EURO XXIII (20 min) - GP-based design of energy functions for protein structure prediction
2009-06-10, Florence, BIOPTRAIN workshop (45 min) - GP-based design of energy functions for protein structure prediction
2009-06-09, Nottingham, Research Away Day (60 min) - Evolutionary design of the energy function for protein structure prediction
2009-05-20, Trondheim, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (20 min) - Evolving an energy function for protein structure prediction
2008-11-21, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland (45 min) - Evolutionary design of the energy function for protein structure prediction
2008-11-13, ASAP group seminar (40 min) - Evolving energy function for the protein structure prediction
2008-09-15, Rome, Mini EURO Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine (20 min)
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
- Metaheuristic for the protein structure comparison
2007-07-11, Prague, EURO XXII (20 min) - The Framsticks system: versatile simulator of 3D agents and their evolution
2006-12-15, Computational Foundations of Nanoscience Journal Club (40 min) - The MAX-CMO problem and its representation
2006-11-15, Nottingham, 5th East Midland Proteomics Workshop (20 min) - Does representation matter?
2006-11-01, ASAP group seminar (45 min)
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
- The MAX-CMO problem and its dual representation
2006-07-03, Reykjavík, EURO XXI (25 min)
Conferences
- EURO XXI, Reykjavík, Iceland (2006-07-03 - 2006-07-05)
- Nottingham High Performance Computing Conference, University of Nottingham (2006-01-19)
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)
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)
