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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please, note that the submission deadline of the 10<sup>th</sup> EUROPT Workshop has been extended till May 15, 2012. I hope you can distribute this information
to all those who are interested in continuous optimization – thanks! Please, find below the third call for abstracts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">With best regards, Kaisa Miettinen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">************************************<br>
Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD, Industrial Optimization Group, <a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/">
http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/</a><br>
Dept. of Mathematical Information Technology, P.O. Box 35 (Agora). FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden<br>
- - -<br>
tel. +358 50 3732247 (mob.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Vice-rector of the University of Jyvaskyla as of August 1, 2012<br>
homepage: <a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine</a> and
<a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html</a><br>
* General Chair of the 21st Int. Conf. on MCDM: <a href="http://www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/">
http://www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">* President of the International Society on MCDM:
<u><span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.mcdmsociety.org/">http://www.mcdmsociety.org/</a></span></u><span style="color:#0070C0">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">* President of EUROPT, EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">* My book: Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer, see http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">=======================================
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Third Call for Abstracts of EUROPT-2012</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Colleagues,</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">the Organizers of the 10th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT-2012) have a pleasure inviting you to take part in this workshop to be held
in Siauliai, Lithuania on 5-7 July, 2012, <a href="http://www.mii.lt/EUROPT-2012">
http://www.mii.lt/EUROPT-2012</a>. We welcome abstracts related to any aspects of continuous optimization, in particular, related to the following topics:</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Topics</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The programme of our Workshop consists of tutorials, invited and contributed papers. We encourage those interested in e.g. the following topics to participate:</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">convex optimization and generalized convexity;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">local nonlinear optimization;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">global nonlinear optimization;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">optimal control -- theory and applications;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">multiobjective optimization;</span><span lang="EN">
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</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">conic optimization and semidefinite programming;
</span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">semiinfinite optimization;</span><span lang="EN">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">robust optimization;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">stochastic optimization;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">large-scale methods in global search;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">optimization in data mining;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">data visualization for optimal decisions;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">applications of continuous optimization to combinatorial problems;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">optimization in industry, business and finance;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">supply chain management;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">analysis and engineering of algorithms;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">software development.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 600 characters (no formulas or mathematical notations are allowed). Each attendee is allowed to present
ONE paper at the conference. To submit an abstract, use the abstract submission system of EURO-Online at
<a href="http://www.euro-online.org/conf/europt2012/?page=welcome">http://www.euro-online.org/conf/europt2012/?page=welcome</a>.
</span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Location and Venue</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The workshop will be held in the Siauliai city (<a href="http://www.maps.lt/map">http://www.maps.lt/map</a>), located about 250 km from Vilnius. Siauliai is the capital
of Northern Lithuania having old historical traditions. Livonian Order Chronicles describe the battle of Saule between ancient Lithuanians and crusaders that took place not far from Shiauliai and later on gave the name for the city.
</span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Workshop will be hosted by the Siauliai University. The registration will take place in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (P.Visinskio st. 19, Siauliai).
The Sessions will take place in the Library of Siauliai University (Vytauto st. 84,Siauliai).</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Invited Speakers</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prof. Boris T. Polyak (Institute of Control Problems, Moscow, Russia)</span><span lang="EN">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Talk: L_1 problems in control</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prof. Adilson Xavier (University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)</span><span lang="EN">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Talk: Hyperbolic Smoothing Method: A Novel Approach for Solving Clustering Problems
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prof. Joaquim Joao Judice (University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal) - EUROPT Fellow 2012</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Talk: Linear Programming with Linear Complementarity Constraints
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prof. Panos M. Pardalos (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Talk: Global optimality conditions in non-convex optimization</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deadlines: </span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2012.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Notification of acceptance / rejection: May 20, 2012.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deadline for early registration: May 25, 2012.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">•</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Workshop: July 5-7, 2012</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Participants of EUROPT-2012 can submit paper to the journal "Optimization" Special Issue on Recent Advances in Continuous Optimization.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Submission deadline of full papers: September 1, 2012.
</span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The format of manuscripts for “Optimization” as well as guidelines and templates can be found on the web page of Taylor & Francis, the publisher of the journal:
<a href="http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02331934.asp">http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02331934.asp</a>.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Each manuscript has to be submitted via Manuscript Central System (MCS)
<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gopt">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gopt</a>.
</span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Registration fee:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="color:#1F497D">
</span> till May 25, 2012 after May 25, 2012</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For regular participants <span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>160 Eur 190 Eur</span><span lang="EN"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For students (Phd, Master) 70 Eur <span style="color:#1F497D">
</span> 90 Eur</span><span lang="EN"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PAYMENT INFORMATION</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bank transfers in EUR should be made to the following account:</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Account holder: Lithuanian Operational Research Society</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Address: Akademijos str. 4, LT-2600 Vilnius, Lithuania</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Bank Account (IBAN): LT964010042403581442</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Bank Name: DNB bank
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Bank address: J. Basanaviciaus str. 26, 03601 Vilnius-6, Lithuania</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Bank Code: 40100</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Bank Swift Code: AGBLLT2X</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Reference: EUROPT-2012, <participant(s) name(s)></span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> If you have any questions please mail them to
<a href="mailto:europt2012@mii.vu.lt">europt2012@mii.vu.lt</a> </span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> IMPORTANT: Make sure that you are paying both the sender's and receiver's charges!</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference fee includes a get-together party, conference dinner, coffee breaks, participant’s package, volume of abstracts, participation in the sessions and tutorials.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Travel</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The participants who wish will be transferred from Vilnius to Siauliai and back to Vilnius by bus (about 3 hours). The bus departs from Vilnius on July 4, at 18:00,
and comes back from Siauliai on July 7, at 12:00. Vilnius (<a href="http://www.vilnius.sav.lt">http://www.vilnius.sav.lt</a>), the capital of Lithuania, is directly connected by plane and other means of transport with many cities in Europe.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Accommodation</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We have reserved quotas of rooms in several guest houses: guest house "Dvarkiemis", countryside tourism homestead "Azuolu slenis", Siauliai University guest house,
the youth hostel (<a href="http://www.mii.vu.lt/europt-2012">http://www.mii.vu.lt/europt-2012</a>).</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For accomodation please contact us at the email address
<a href="mailto:europt2012@mii.vu.lt">europt2012@mii.vu.lt</a> then we will reserve your place at the guest houses and we will send you an invoice to make the money transfer.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The transportation to and from the conference place will be offered.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social Programme
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The social program of the Conference includes
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- a get-together party (Countryside tourism homestead "Azuolu slenis"), July 5, 2012;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- conference dinner - banquet (Guest house "Dvarkiemis"), July 6, 2012;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- excursion to the Hill of Croisses, July 7, 2012;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Organizing institutions</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization (EUROPT);</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Lithuanian Operational Research Society (LitORS);</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Siauliai University, Siauliai, Lithuania;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Co-Organizing Institutions</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania;</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International Programme Committee</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mirjam Duer (University of Trier, Germany) - Chair</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Julius Zilinskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania) - Co-chair</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Adil Bagirov (University of Ballarat, Australia)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nelson Maculan (University Federal Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kaisa Miettinen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Arkadi Nemirovski (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yurii Nesterov (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Leonidas Sakalauskas (VU Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fabio Schoen (University of Florence, Italy)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tatiana Tchemisova (University of Aveiro, Portugal)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tamas Terlaky (Lehigh University, USA)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Otu Vaarman (Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Organizing Committee</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vaida Bartkute-Norkuniene (VU Institute of Mathematics and Informatics)- Co-Chair</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Valerijonas Dumskis (Siauliai University, Lithuania)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Grazvydas Felinskas (Siauliai University, Lithuania)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Donatas Jurgaitis (Siauliai University, Lithuania) - Chair</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Liudvikas Kaklauskas (Siauliai University, Lithuania)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sigita Turskiene (Siauliai University, Lithuania) - Co-Chair</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gerhard Wilhelm Weber (Middle East Technical University, Turkey, EWG EUROPT)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ingrida Vaiciulyte (VU, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kestutis Zilinskas (Siauliai University, Lithuania)</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contacts</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Secretariat of EurOPT-2012</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vilnius University, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Akademijos 4, LT-08663 Vilnius</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lithuania</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tel. +3705 2109323</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fax: +3705 2729209</span><span lang="EN">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">E-mail: <<a href="mailto:europt2012@mii.vu.lt">europt2012@mii.vu.lt</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.mii.vu.lt/europt-2012">http://www.mii.vu.lt/europt-2012</a></span><span lang="EN">
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