This year’s workshop on Symbolic Regression at GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) saw a record number of submissions and was very well recieved. We had two marvelous sessions with nine contributed talks and a 30-minute long lively discussion round. The overall quality of talks was high spanning a good mix of topics including benchmarking, efficiency improvements, theoretical considerations, and applications. Thanks to all the speakers and participants for their contributions.

The meeting on Symbolic Regression in the Physical Sciences was held on 28th and 29th of April 2025 at Royal Society in London. Two days of insightful talks highlighted several applications of symbolic regression and gave some hints about future developments of symbolic regression methods. We provide our personal summary of the main topics in this post.