<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">It is my pleasure to invite you for submitting an abstract to the
5th Triannual Conference on “Numerical Analysis and Optimization” (NAOV-2020), held
at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, January 6 - 9, 2020. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:<br>
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 abstract should be
submitted online via the website </span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://conferences.squ.edu.om/NAOV-2020/home" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://conferences.squ.edu.om/NAOV-2020/home</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Abstract Submission Deadline: November 10, 2019.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
Registration Deadline: December 10, 2019.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">INVITED SPEAKERS:<br>
</span><a name="_Hlk15372102"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Adil Bagirov (University of
Ballarat, Australia), Oleg Burdakov (Linkoping University, Sweden), Yu-Hong Dai
(Chinese Academy of Science, China), Iain<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Duff
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Francisco Facchinei (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Sapienza
University, Italy), </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Giovanni Fasano (University of Venice Ca
Foscari, Italy), David M. Gay<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> (AMPL Optimization Inc., USA),</span><span style="color:black"> Francesca Guerriero (University of Calabria, Italy),<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Desmond J. Higham (University
of Strathclyde, UK), <span style="color:black">Michael Hintermuller
(Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany),<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Sven
Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), <span style="color:black">Nezam
Mahdavi-Amiri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran), </span>Pammy Manchanda (Guru Nanak Dev University, India),<span style="color:black"> Dominique Orban (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal,<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Canada), </span>Michael Overton (New
York University, USA), <span style="color:black">Amiya Kumar Pani (Institute of
Technology Bombay, India),<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Janos
D. Pinter (Lehigh University, USA), <span style="color:black">Cornelis Roos
(Delft<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>University of Technology,
The Netherlands), Ekkehard W. Sachs (University of Trier, Germany), </span>Jesus
Maria Sanz-Serna (<span style="letter-spacing:0.25pt">Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), </span><span style="color:black">Michael Saunders
(Stanford University,<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>USA), </span>Abulhasan
Siddiqi (Sharda University, India), Emilio Spedicato (University of Bergamo,
Italy), Trond Steihaug (University of Bergen, Norway), Tamas Terlaky (Lehigh
University, USA), <span style="color:black">Philippe L. Toint (University of
Namur, Belgium), Maria Teresa<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Vespucci
(Bergamo University, Italy), </span>Andrew Wathen (Oxford University, UK),
YaXiang Yuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).</span></a><div><a name="_Hlk15372102"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></a></div></div>