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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Please, find below information about the International Summer School to be held in Jyvaskyla, Finland in August 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Please, note that it includes a course
</span><a name="COM4"></a><span lang="EN">COM4: Sequential Experimentation and decision making by Anytime Randomized Search Heuristics given by prof. Joshua Knowles (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) in the field of optimization. Please, distribute
this announcement further, thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Yours, Kaisa Miettinen</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Industrial Optimization Group:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dept. of Mathematical Information Technology, P.O. Box 35 (Agora)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The 26<sup>th</sup> Jyväskylä Summer School</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">3<sup>rd</sup> – 19<sup>th</sup> August 2016
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University of Jyväskylä</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The 26<sup>th</sup> Jyväskylä Summer School offers courses for advanced Master’s students, PhD students, and post-docs in various fields of science
and information technology. Students from all over the world are encouraged to apply and to benefit from the high quality interdisciplinary teaching of the Summer School. The Jyväskylä Summer School provides students with an excellent opportunity to participate
in a large number of courses and enjoy high quality teaching by respected researchers from all over the world. The language of instruction is English in all courses.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A total of 19 courses are offered in the following subjects:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Biological and Environmental Science</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Chemistry</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Computational Sciences</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Information Systems
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Mathematics</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Physics</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Statistics</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Participation in the courses is free of charge, but students are expected to cover their own costs, including travel, accommodation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
More information on the courses and the application at: <a href="http://www.jyu.fi/summerschool">
<span style="color:windowtext">http://www.jyu.fi/summerschool</span></a> <br>
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<b>Deadline for applications is 30<sup>th</sup> of April 2016!</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">would greatly appreciate it, if you could kindly forward the information on the Summer School to any interested parties such as students and colleagues.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the 26<sup>th</sup> Jyväskylä Summer School,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Elina Leskinen</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Jyväskylä Summer School</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Faculty of Mathematics and Science</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">P.O.Box 35
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">40014 University of Jyvaskyla</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Finland</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Phone: + 358 (0)50 581 8351</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">E-mail:
<a href="mailto:jss@jyu.fi" target="_blank">jss@jyu.fi</a></span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">WWW-pages:
<a href="http://www.jyu.fi/summerschool/" target="_blank">http://www.jyu.fi/summerschool/</a></span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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