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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast,</span><span
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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please,
consider attending to our next
Excellence Lecture:</span><span
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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><b><u><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#236FA1">Automatic Component-Wise Design
of Algorithms for Optimization and
Machine Learning</span></u></b><span
lang="EN-US" style="color:#236FA1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="v1v1msonormal"><strong><i><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1">Prof. </span></i></strong><b><i><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#236FA1">Manuel López-Ibáñez</span></i></b><b><i><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1"> (</span></i></b><b><i><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#236FA1">University of Manchester</span></i></b><b><i><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1">) </span></i></b><i><span
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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><strong><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1">Abstract:</span></strong><strong><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1"> </span></strong><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1">Modern
high-performing algorithms for
Optimization and Machine Learning are
often the result of the careful
composition of diverse algorithmic
ideas. Often such algorithms are
designed by human experts guided by
their expertise and laborious
trial-and-error. Nowadays, it is
possible to automatically design such
algorithms by combining flexible
algorithmic frameworks and
general-purpose hyper-parameter
optimizers. In this talk, we will
explain the general principles behind
this automatic design approach and
illustrate its use with several
examples. We will also discuss how LLMs
may represent (or not) the next
evolution of this component-wise design
approach.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="v1v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1"> <strong><span
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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><strong><span
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Date: 24 March 2026</span></strong><span
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Time</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1">: <strong><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">17:00-18:00 CET
(18:00-19:00 Greek time)</span></strong></span><span
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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><strong><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1">Meeting
ID: 919 9994 9089</span></strong><span
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114050</span></strong><span
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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><strong><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1"> Lecturer
Short CV: </span></strong><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#236FA1">Manuel
López-Ibáñez is Full Professor (Chair)
of Optimization at the Alliance
Manchester Business School, University
of Manchester, UK. He is
Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on
Evolutionary Learning and Optimization,
Associate Editor of the Evolutionary
Computation journal and IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
and Editorial Board Member of the
Artificial Intelligence Journal and
European Journal of Operational
Research. Prof. López-Ibáñez has
published more than 100 papers in
international peer-reviewed journals and
conferences on topics that include
stochastic local search, black-box
optimization, empirical reproducibility,
multi-objective and interactive
optimization algorithms for continuous
and combinatorial problems, and the
automatic configuration and design of
optimization algorithms. <a
href="https://lopez-ibanez.eu/"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lopez-ibanez.eu/</a>.</span><span
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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><strong><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Prof.
Enrique Alba</span></strong><span
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<p class="v1v1msonormal"><i><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">University
of Málaga (SPAIN) and Visiting
Professor UCL (UK)</span></i><i><span
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="v1v1msonormal"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">AIDA
AI Excellence Lecture Series Committee
Chair</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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