* SAIC's Basic Research Program (BRP) Retreat 2003, St. Michaels, MD., May 11-13, 2003.
Presented a poster awarded the First Place Poster prize:
Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Alternate Conformations of the HIV-1 Dimer Initiation Site Explored by the Massively Parallel Genetic Algorithm and the Structurelab Computer Workbench."

* Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Computational Biology Faculty meeting, Gaithersburg, MD., November 6, 2002.
Presented a poster:
Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A. in collaboration with Atha, D.H., and O'Connell, C.D.: "Computer Prediction of Single-Stranded DNA Secondary Structures Constrained by Capillary Electrophoresis Results."
Contributed to the second poster:
Shapiro, B.A., Kasprzak, W., and Li, W.: "Macro and Micro Structural Analysis of Nucleic Acids."

* International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences - METMBS '02, Las Vegas, NV., June 2002.
Co-authored, with Dr. B. Shapiro, a paper on HIV-1 Dimer Initiation Site structures (see publications for a full reference).

* KDD-2001: Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; San Francisco, CA., August 26-29, 2001.

* The Sixth Johns Hopkins Folding Meeting, Berkeley Springs, W.V., March 17-20, 2001

* Novel Approaches in RNA Informatics (NARI 2000), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 18-19, 2000
Presented a poster:
Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A.:"Stem Trace: A GUI-based Tool for an Exploratory RNA Structure Analysis."
Prepared a demo CD of the STRUCTURELAB, featuring various uses of the Stem Trace tool, installed and demonstrated the system at the conference on an available SGI workstation.

* SPRING RESEARCH FESTIVAL '99
Contributed to a poster presentation.

* RNA '98 - The Third Annual Meeting of the RNA Society. Madison, WI., May 1998.
Participated in Dr. Bruce Shapiro's presentation by giving a live demo of Structurelab tools available at the time.

* BIOINFORMATICS '97 - San Diego, California., Sept. 1997.
Presented poster featuring work done with Dr. Bruce Shapiro:
" Stem Trace: An Interactive Visual Tool for Comparative RNA Structure Analysis"

* SPRING RESEARCH FESTIVAL '97
Contributed to a poster presentation.

* TOOLS USA '96 (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems), Santa Barbara, CA.
[ OO Technology for Scientific Computing ]
[ OO Distributed Computing ]
[ Testing OO Software (The Firesmith Method) ]

* Lisp Users and Vendors Conference (LUV '95) Boston, MA.
Presented a paper on the RNA Analysis software (see publications for a full reference). [ Emacs Lisp (emacs editor & Lisp interface) ]
[ Lisp Optimization ]
[ CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager - OO GUI)]

* LUV '94 Berkeley, CA.
[ Advanced CLOS (Common Lisp Object System - OO lisp)]
[ Performing Lisp (code optimization) ]
[ DB: Relational DB interface, OODB ]

* LUV '93 Boston, MA.
[ CLOS I & CLOS II (Common Lisp Object System - OO lisp) ]
[ CLIM I (Common Lisp Interface Manager - OO GUI) ]
[ Code optimization ]

* LUV '91 Gaithersburg, MD.