Cercia director, Prof. X. Yao, delivered an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecture on “Evolutionary Optimisation
and Constraint Handling” at the RMIT City Campus in Melbourne, Australia, no 24 November 2010. During his visit to Australasia, he also gave invited talks at NICTA (on evolving neural network ensembles), Melbourne, on 25 November 2010 and at the Victoria University of Wellington (on applications of evolutionary computation), New Zealand, on 18 November 2010.