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<div class="">Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div class="">(with apologies if you receive multiple copies)</div>
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<div class="">We are writing to invite you to the 17th British-French-German (BFG) Conference on Optimization to be held at Imperial College, 15-17 June 2015.</div>
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<div class="">In addition to presenting your work to the conference we would like to to let you know that participants can also submit a paper to a special issue of the journal of Optimization Methods and Software. </div>
<div class="">The paper submission opens 01 July 2015 and the deadline is 01 December 2015. Papers should not exceed 25 journal pages. Submissions should follow the journal's style and guidelines. Manuscript submission must be made online via the journal's ScholarOne
Manuscripts site. To specify the special issue, choose "BFG2015".</div>
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<div class="">More information about the conference series, which started in Oberwolfach in 1980, can be found at <a href="http://optimisation.doc.ic.ac.uk/bfg2015" class="">http://optimisation.doc.ic.ac.uk/bfg2015</a>. </div>
<div class="">Further enquiries can also be sent to <a href="mailto:bfg2015@imperial.ac.uk" class="">bfg2015@imperial.ac.uk</a>.</div>
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<div class="">We look forward to seeing you at the conference.<br class="">
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<div class="">Best regards,<br class="">
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Ruth Misener, Panos Parpas, Stratos Pistikopoulos, Berc Rustem, Nilay Shah, Wolfram Wiesemann</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Deadlines</b></div>
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<div class="">27 Feb ’15: Proposals deadline for invited sessions</div>
<div class="">06 Mar ’15: Submission deadline for extended abstracts<br class="">
13 Mar '15:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Notification of abstract acceptance<br class="">
08 May '15:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Early registration deadline<br class="">
01 Jul '15: Full paper submission opens</div>
<div class="">01 Dec '15: Full paper submission deadline</div>
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<b class="">Plenary Speakers<br class="">
</b>Dimitris Bertsimas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA<br class="">
Regina Burachik, University of South Australia, Australia<br class="">
Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA<br class="">
William Hager, University of Florida, USA<br class="">
Stefan Ulbrich, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany<br class="">
Michel Pierre, ENS Cachan, Antenne de Bretagne, France<br class="">
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<b class="">Semi-Plenary Speakers<br class="">
</b>Paul Armand, Universite de Limoges, France<br class="">
Amir Beck, The Technion, Israel<br class="">
Erick Delage, HEC Montréal, Canada<br class="">
Serge Gratton, CERFACS, France<br class="">
Karthik Natarajan, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore<br class="">
Martin Skutella, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany</div>
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