Cercia PhD student, Mr. Peter Oliveto, won the Best Paper Award of the "Genetic Algorithms" track at the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’08), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 12-16 July 2008, for his co-authored paper:

Theoretical Analysis of Diversity Mechanisms for Global Exploration;
Tobias Friedrich (Max Planck Institut für Informatik)
Pietro S. Oliveto (University of Birmingham)
Dirk Sudholt (TU Dortmund)
Carsten Witt (TU Dortmund)

Dr. Jon Rowe won the Best Paper Award of the "Formal Theory" track at the same conference for his co-authored paper:

Precision, Local Search and Unimodal Functions;
Martin Dietzfelbinger (Tecnische Universität Ilmenau)
Jonathan E. Rowe (University of Birmingham)
Ingo Wegener (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Phillip Woelfel (University of Calgary)