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ROTC students from UW-La Crosse, Viterbo University and Winona State University joined forced with La Crosse's Outdoor Recreation Alliance to replace a bridge on a hiking trail in Hixon Forest. “It’s cool to look back,” UWL junior Isaiah Voiland says, “and know that you’ve made a difference.” Bridging the gap Posted 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021 Local ROTC students give back through Hixon bridge project Read more about Bridging the gap UW-La Crosse senior Kaelan Engholdt, with the help of Assistant Professor David Mathias, has created an Solving the world’s toughest problems Posted 8:04 a.m. Monday, July 5, 2021 UWL student-faculty research has wide range of applications Read more about Solving the world’s toughest problems Andrea Connell, ’08, is part of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which has helped oversee planning and operations for the Mars Perseverance Rover. Connell will discuss the project during the next installment of the UWL Alumni Association’s What’s New Wednesdays series June 23. Mission to Mars Posted 11:21 a.m. Friday, June 4, 2021 ‘What’s New Wednesdays’ to feature alum’s work with Mars rover Read more about Mission to Mars Jacob McAllister, a junior in UW-La Crosse's computer science and software engineering dual degree program, created an app that provides unique and informative illustrations of COVID-19 data nationwide. A unique look at COVID-19 Posted 12:18 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020 Student’s app helps capture pandemic’s impact Read more about A unique look at COVID-19 Phuong Nguyen, a 2017 UW-La Crosse computer science grad, developed an application that allows his family’s food warehouse business to boost efficiency and cut back on mistakes. “UWL gave me great preparation for my career,” he says. Read more → Helping the family business? There’s an app for that Posted 1:34 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 UWL alum develops app that boosts efficiency Read more about Helping the family business? There’s an app for that
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David Mathias, Kaelan Engholdt and Annie Wu

David Mathias, Computer Science; and Kaelan Engholdt, CS: Computer Science BS; Annie Wu, University of Central Florida; presented "Variable Response Duration Promotes Self-organization in Decentralized Swarms" at Ninth International Conference on Bio-inspired Optimisation Methods and their Applications (BIOMA 2020) on Nov. 19, online.

Submitted on: Nov. 24, 2020

Annie Wu and David Mathias

David Mathias, Computer Science and Annie Wu, University of Central Florida presented "Dynamic Response Thresholds: Heterogeneous Ranges Allow Specialization While Mitigating Convergence to Sink States" at Twelfth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2020 on Oct. 26 in Barcelona Spain (moved to online conference).

Submitted on: Nov. 24, 2020

Annie Wu, David Mathias and Laik Ruetten

David Mathias, Computer Science; Laik Ruetten, CS: Embedded Sys BS; Annie Wu, University of Central Florida presented "Heterogeneous Response Intensity Ranges and Response Probability Improve Goal Achievement in Multi-agent Systems" at Twelfth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2020) on Oct. 26 in Barcelona Spain (moved to online conference).

Submitted on: Nov. 24, 2020

David Mathias

David Mathias, Computer Science, co-authored the article "Evolutionary Optimization of Cooperative Strategies for the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma" in Transactions on Games and was accepted for publication by IEEE.

Submitted on: July 13, 2020

Samantha Foley and David Mathias

Samantha Foley and David Mathias, both Computer Science, presented "A Parallel Two-stage Genetic Algorithm for Route Planning" at The Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO) on July 8 in Cancun, Mexico.

Submitted on: July 13, 2020