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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">you are cordially invited to participate in the 1-day symposium "Combinatorial Optimization and Applications" at the University of Edinburgh on the 10<sup>th</sup> of February 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">We are delighted to announce the following invited speakers:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE">- Horst W. Hamacher (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Martine Labbé (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Marco Lübbecke (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Alfredo Marín (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Pedro Munari (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- François Vanderbeck (Université de Bordeaux, France)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In addition to the six plenary talks, there will be one dedicated session with three conference presentations. If you are interested in presenting your work, please send an abstract of at most one page to
<a href="mailto:coa2017@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk">coa2017@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk</a>. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday, the 9<sup>th</sup> of December 2016. Notification of acceptance will be one week later.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Participation is free of charge, but you are required to register for catering and organizational purposes. The deadline for registration is on the 27th of January 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The symposium will be held at the University of Edinburgh's George Square campus, which is within short walking distance from the city centre and Waverly train station.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">More details can be found at: <a href="http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~jkalcsic/index.html">
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~jkalcsic/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">We are looking forward to meeting you in Edinburgh!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sergio García Quiles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jörg Kalcsics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Joerg Kalcsics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lecturer in Operational Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Room: 6226<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Phone: +44 (0)131 650 5953
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