• Mirela Andronescu (HH: IMO clearly qualified, have to check baby situation)
• Sohrab Shah (HH: probably qualified, might not have time)
• Patrice Belleville (HH: good longer-term solution, but large startup cost for him, might be booked up with other courses)
• Frank Hutter (HH: IMO clearly qualified, but large startup cost for him, might not have time - I don't think he is a realistic option)

-- HolgerHoos - 15 Mar 2011

AC: other possibilities are

• Jan Manuch - not sure he'll be around next year but if he is he might be available
• Chris Thachuk - probably not interested, too many time constraints
• Bonnie Kirkpatrich - (postdoc starting in July) also probably not interested
• Cydney Neilsen (postdoc at BC Cancer) - the algorithms-oriented focus of the course may not be well aligned with her interests but she took 545 many years ago.
• Vicky Choi - moving to Vancouver this summer, strong algorithms background, interested in bioinformatics but may not be available if she has already lined up something else (this is probably too short-term for her)

We could also just email all of these people and ask them to suggest others.