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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sender: Mehi Al-Baali <<a href="mailto:invitation@iaria.org">albaali@squ.edu.om</a>><br>Category: Conference <br><br>Call for participation at NAOIII 2014, The third Conference on “Numerical Analysis and Optimization: Theory, Methods, Applications and Technology Transfer,” Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, January 5-9, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Paul Armand (CNRS et Universite de Limoges, France), Marida Bertocchi (Bergamo University, Italy), </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Oleg Burdakov (Linkoping University, Sweden), </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Andrew R. Conn (IBM Research Center, USA), Yu-Hong Dai (Chinese Academy of Science, China), Jacques Desrosiers (HEC Montréal and GERAD, Canada), Iain Duff (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), John Ford (Essex University, UK), Michael Hintermüller (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlinm, Germany), Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran), Dominique Orban (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada), Martin Reed (University of Bath, UK), </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cornelis Roos (Delft University of Technology</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>,<span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL><span dir=RTL></span> </span><span dir=LTR></span><span dir=LTR></span> The </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Netherlands), Ekkehard W. Sachs (University of Trier</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>,<span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL><span dir=RTL></span> </span></span><span dir=LTR></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span dir=LTR></span> Germany), </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Michael Saunders (Stanford University, USA), Emilio Spedicato (Bergamo University, Italy), Brian Straughan (University of Durham, UK), Tamas Terlaky (Lehigh University, USA), Andrew Wathen (Oxford University, UK), Hong Wang (University of South Carolina, USA), Yinyu Ye (Stanford University, USA).<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Registration <span style='color:black'>is required for all those wishing to attend the meeting (available places, particularly for those outside Oman, are limited). </span>To participate at the conference, please apply <b>online</b> or send an e-mail as early as possible. If a participate wishes to contribute a talk, an abstract is required </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>online [or by email and be arranged, in latex if possible, as follows: Title of the talk, Name(s) of the Author(s) (the speaker should be in bold face), Mailing address(es) with affiliation, E-mail address(es), K<span style='color:black'>eywords,</span> and text of the abstract (maximum one page in 12 point)]. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Acceptance will be notified in due time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Abstract Submission Deadline: November 28, 2014. <br>Registration Deadline: December 12, 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>FURTHER INFORMATION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>P</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>lease visit the website <a href="http://www.nao2014.com">http://www.nao2014.com</a> or send an email to either <a href="mailto:naoiii2014@squ.edu.om">naoiii2014@squ.edu.om</a> or <a href="mailto:naoiii2014@gmail.com">naoiii2014@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>