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</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Informs Optimization Society Meeting, Denver Colorado, March 23-25, 2018</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">- theory and applications of linear, integer, and nonlinear optimization</span></p>
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under uncertainty</span></p>
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decomposition methods, approximation algorithms, heuristics, and meta-heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems</span></p>
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dynamic programming and constraint programming</span></p>
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