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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoTitle" align="center" style="text-align:center">Preliminary Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></p>
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2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">28<sup>th</sup> International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">17 – 21 July 2017, Newcastle, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify">The series of IWOCA conferences grew out of over 20 years history of the International (since 2007) respectively Australasian (until 2006) Workshops on Combinatorial Algorithms. Previous IWOCA and AWOCA meetings
have been held in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Indonesia, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, UK, and the US.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><img width="189" height="169" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image014.png@01D22BB0.E9180670"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify">This is a very special IWOCA, dedicated to the memory of
<b>Professor Mirka Miller</b>. Mirka was one of the founders of AWOCA and has attended many gatherings of this workshop since its initiation in 1988. Mirka has been an active member of the IWOCA Steering Committee since its inception in 2006. Mirka was diagnosed
with gastro-oesophageal cancer in 2015 and died of this disease on 2nd January, 2016. This particular IWOCA gathering is as much about celebrating the life and work of this wonderful person as it is in continuing her legacy, of which IWOCA is just one aspect.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Topics </span></b>include (but are not limited to) the following:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Algorithms and Data Structures <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Complexity Theory <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Graph Theory & Combinatorics <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Combinatorial Optimization <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Cryptography & Information Security <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Algorithms on Strings & Graphs <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Graph Drawing & Labelling <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Computational Algebra & Geometry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Computational Biology <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Probabilistic & Randomised Algorithms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• Algorithms for Big Data Analytics <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default">• New Paradigms of Computation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Invited Speakers: </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">(confirmed to date)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Martin Baca (University of Kosice)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Henning Fernau (University of Trier)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Costas Iliopoulos (King’s College London)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Zdenek Ryjacek (University of West Bohemia)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Important dates</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Abstract due 7<sup>th</sup> March 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Paper due 15<sup>th</sup> March 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Notification 15<sup>th</sup> April 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Camera ready 30<sup>th</sup> April 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>IWOCA 17<sup>th</sup> – 21<sup>st</sup> July 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Submission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors are invited to submit a paper not exceeding 12 single-spaced pages, including references, figures, title, authors, affiliations, e-mail
addresses, and a short (one paragraph) abstract. The authors are strongly advised to use the LaTeX style file supplied by Springer Verlag for Lecture Notes in Computer Science
</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. Final proceedings papers must
be camera-ready in this format. A clearly marked Appendix, which will not count toward the 12 page submission limit, can be included and will be read at the referees’ discretion. All submissions have to be made via the EasyChair submission page for the conference
at <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwoca2017"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwoca2017</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work and surveys of important results. At the time the paper is submitted to IWOCA, and for the entire review period,
the paper (or essentially the same paper) should not be under review by any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific journal. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the conference and present the paper.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best Student Paper Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) will award a prize to the author(s) of the best student paper. To be eligible for this award, all the authors of the paper have
to be students at the time of submission. <b>Authors who wish their paper to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award should inform the chairs of their eligibility via email by the paper submission deadline.
</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Open Problem</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Session<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In IWOCA tradition, we will hold an open problems session at IWOCA2017. If you have an open problem that would like to share with other conference participants or wider IWOCA community,
<b>please email to the open problems chair Gabriele Fici (<a href="mailto:gabriele.fici@unipa.it">gabriele.fici@unipa.it</a>).<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Organising Committee</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Ljiljana Brankovic (<b>co-chair</b>) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Joe Ryan (<b>co-chair</b>) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Stephan Chalup <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Yuqing Lin <o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Alexandre Mendes <o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Nasimul Noman<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Mira Park <o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Shamus Smith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Mujiangshan Wang <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify">Proceedings will be published in Springer
<b>Lecture Notes in Computer Science</b> (LNCS) <b>after the conference. </b>Authors<b>
</b>of<b> s</b>elected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to a special issue of the
<b>Journal of Discrete Algorithms</b> (JDA).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Conference Website:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><a href="https://carma.newcastle.edu.au/meetings/iwoca/">https://carma.newcastle.edu.au/meetings/iwoca/</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default">Please mark your diaries so as not to miss out on this very special IWOCA.<span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Program Committee: </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">(confirmed to date)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Hideo Bannai (Kyushu University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo8">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Cristina Bazgan (University Paris Dauphine)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Ljiljana Brankovic (University of Newcastle, <b>co-chair</b>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Pino Cabellero-Gil (University of La Laguna)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Charles Colbourn (Arizona State University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Tatjana Davidovic (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Vlad Estivill-Castro (Griffith University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Graham Farr (Monash University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Michael Fellows (University of Bergen)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Gabriele Fici (University of Palermo)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">11.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Serge Gaspers (University of New South Wales)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">12.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Pinar Heggernes (University of Bergen)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">13.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Seok-Hee Hong (University of Sydney)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">14.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Peter Horak (University of Washington, Tacoma)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo8">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">15.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Jesper Jansson (Kyoto University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">16.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Ralf Klasing (CNRS Bordeaux)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">17.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Christian Komusiewicz (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">18.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Jan Kratochvil (Charles University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">19.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Theirry Lecroq (University of Rouen)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">20.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Zsuzsanna Lipták (University of Verona)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">21.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Petra Mutzel (TU Dortmund)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">22.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Kunsoo Park (Seoul National University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo8">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">23.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Vangelis Paschos (University Paris Dauphine)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">24.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Christophe Paul (CNRS Montpellier)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo8">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">25.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Solon Pissis (King's College London)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">26.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Simon J. Puglisi (University of Helsinki)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">27.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Frances Rosamond (University of Bergen)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">28.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">29.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Joe Ryan (University of Newcastle, <b>co-chair</b>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">30.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Oliver Schaudt (University of Köln)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">31.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Andrea Semaničová-Feňovčíková (Technical University of Kosice)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">32.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Jamie Simpson (Murdoch University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">33.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Michiel Smid (Carleton University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">34.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Bill Smyth (McMaster University, <b>co-chair</b>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">35.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Sue Whitesides (University of Victoria)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">36.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Christos Zaroliagis (University of Patras)<o:p></o:p></p>
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