I'd like to make you aware of the PhD symposium at ICST 2012. Deadline is Oct. 28 for abstract submission and Nov. 4 for full paper submission!

Dr. Phil McMinn will have a course, which you are welcome to register to, on Nov. 7-8 in Västerås (Mälardalens Högskola), regarding search-based software testing. Please contact Sigrid Eldh at MdH for more information if you are interested in participating. The course can be seen as an introduction to search-based techniques and, I would say, is primarily for PhD students.