Web-Versions of some Talks:

• Here is the talk titled Renormalization Group on the Hanoi Networks that I gave at Quantum Mechanics in the Complex Plane", otherwise known as "BenderFest09" to celebrate the 65th birthday of my Ph. D. advisor, Prof. Carl M. Bender, at Washington University in St. Louis, March 28, 2009.


• Here is the talk on Extremal Optimization that I gave at the conference on Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION3) on Jan 14-18, 2009, in Trento, Italy.


• Here is the (long!) seminar on Exploring Spin Glass Ground States with Extremal Optimization that I gave at Oldenburg University on Oct. 10, 2008.


• Here is the 10min talk on the Local Field Distributions in Spin Glasses that I gave at the APS March Meeting in New Orleans on March 10, 2008.


• Here is the talk on Spin Glasses in all Dimensions that I gave at the StatPhys23 Conference in Genoa (Italy) in July, 2007.

Funding: Our work on disordered systems is currently supported by a DMR grant from the NSF. Another grant from the NSF has supported our research on Extremal Optimization. Computational equipment was purchased through a grant from the Emory University Research Council (URC), and start-up support. Previous partial support for Extremal Optimization was received from an LDRD-funded project at Los Alamos National Laboratory.