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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 <</span><a href="mailto:invitation@iaria.org"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>albaali@squ.edu.om</span></a><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Category: Conference <br><br>The third Conference on "Numerical Analysis and Optimization:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Theory, Methods, Applications and Technology Transfer," will be<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, on January 5-9<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(Sunday to Thursday), 2014 (website http://www.nao2014.com).<br><br>Invited Speakers:<br>Paul Armand (CNRS et Universite de Limoges, France), Oleg Burdakov<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(Linkoping University, Sweden), John Butcher (The University of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Auckland, New Zealand), Andrew R. Conn (IBM Research Center, USA),<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Yu-Hong Dai (Chinese Academy of Science, China), Jacques Desrosiers<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(HEC Montreal and GERAD, Canada), Iain Duff (Rutherford Appleton<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Laboratory, UK), John Ford (Essex University, UK), Michael<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Hintermuller (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany), Nezam<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Mahdavi-Amiri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran), Dominique<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Orban (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada), Amiya Kumar Pani<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>(Institute of Technology Bombay, India), Martin Reed (University of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>Bath, UK), Peter Richtarik (University of Edinburgh, UK), Cornelis<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Roos (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Ekkehard W.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Sachs (University of Trier, Germany), Michael Saunders (Stanford<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>University, USA), Emilio Spedicato (Bergamo University, Italy),<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Brian Straughan (University of Durham, UK), Tamas Terlaky (Lehigh<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>University, USA), Maria Teresa Vespucci (Bergamo University,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Italy), Hong Wang (University of South Carolina, USA), Down Andrew<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Wathen, Oxford University, UK.<br><br>Registration is required for all those wishing to attend the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>conference (available places, particularly for those outside Oman,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>are limited). If a participate wishes to contribute a talk for 20<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>minutes, an abstract should be submitted either on line via the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>website <a href="http://www.nao2014.com">http://www.nao2014.com</a> or by email to <a href="mailto:naoiii2014@squ.edu.om">naoiii2014@squ.edu.om</a> (or <a href="mailto:naoiii2014@gmail.com">naoiii2014@gmail.com</a>).<br><br>Abstract Submission Deadline: November 28, 2013.<br>Registration Deadline: December 12, 2013.<br style='orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>