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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Sender: </b>Mehi Al-Baali</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>Category: </b>Conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>Call for participation at NAOIV-2017</b>, the Fourth Conference on “Numerical Analysis and Optimization: Theory, Methods, Applications
and Technology Transfer,” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">held in Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, January 2-5, 2017.
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">INVITED SPEAKERS:</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Adil Bagirov (University of Ballarat, Australia), Oleg Burdakov (Linkoping University, Sweden), Andrew R. Conn (IBM Research<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Center, USA), Yu-Hong Dai
(Chinese Academy of Science, China), Iain<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Duff (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), Mahmoud M. El-Alem<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Alexandria University, Egypt), Messoud Efendiyev (Helmholtz Center<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Munich,
Germany), </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">David M. Gay<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"> (AMPL Optimization Inc., USA);</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
Francesca Guerriero (Calabria University, Italy),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Michael Hintermuller (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran),
John<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Miller (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland), Hans Mittelmann (Arizona State<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>University, USA), Dominique Orban (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Canada),
Amiya Kumar Pani (Institute of Technology Bombay, India),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Florian A. Potra (University of Maryland, USA), Cornelis Roos (Delft<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>University of Technology, The Netherlands),
Ekkehard W. Sachs<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(University of Trier, Germany), Michael Saunders (Stanford University,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>USA), Philippe L. Toint (University of Namur, Belgium), Maria Teresa<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Vespucci
(Bergamo University, Italy).<br>
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<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>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Registration is required for all those wishing to attend the conference (available places, particularly for those outside Oman, are limited). If a participant wishes to contribute a talk for 20 minutes, an <b>abstract</b> should
be submitted either online via the website <a href="https://conference.squ.edu.om/Default.aspx?tabid=2157" target="_blank">https://conference.squ.edu.om/Default.aspx?tabid=2157</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">or by email to </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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padding:0in"><a href="mailto:nao2017@squ.edu.om" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003366;border:none">nao2017@squ.edu.om</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#444444"> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in">or </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><a href="mailto:naoiv2017@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003366;border:none">naoiv2017@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Abstract Submission Deadline</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">: November 28, 2016.<br>
<b>Registration Deadline</b>: December 12, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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