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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Call for sessions<br>
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EURO20</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">21</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">, the
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">31st</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> European Conference on Operational Research (</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://euro2021athens.com/">https://euro2021athens.com/</a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">)</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">will be organized in
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Athens, Greece</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">, on July
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">11</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">-1</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">4</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">,
20</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">21</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">.<br>
<br>
We are organizing a stream devoted to <b>Multiobjective Optimization</b> and related topics and would like to invite you to organize a session in the stream. This means inviting speakers and chairing the session. If you are interested, please, let us know</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
preferably by <b>November 20, 2020</b>.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">W</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">e
can include your session in the electronic Abstract Submission System</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> and</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> can
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">then </span>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">invite speakers to your session conveniently (a session can naturally have more than one organizer in which case you'll just have to decide who will chair the session). At this point, you
can give a tentative title of your session and you can modify it later. A session
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">typically</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> consist</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">s</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
of four talks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The abstract submission deadline is
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">February 28</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">, 20</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">21,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
so all abstracts of your session should be in the Abstract Submission System before that date. Please note that abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 1,500 characters in plain text format (no formulas are allowed). Each registered attendee
is allowed to give one presentation at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">There are special issues related to EURO2021:
<a href="https://euro2021athens.com/special-issues/">https://euro2021athens.com/special-issues/</a>
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<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">If you know a colleague who might be interested in organizing a session, please, feel free to forward this invitation.<br>
<br>
We hope that you are interested in organizing a session (or several sessions) and that together we can increase the visibility of multiobjective optimization in this conference!</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For information about the possible actions of the conference organizers related to the current pandemic, see
<a href="https://euro2021athens.com/welcome-letter/">https://euro2021athens.com/welcome-letter/</a>.
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<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">If you have any questions, please, do not hesitate to contact us! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:13.5pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
With best regards, Kaisa Miettinen</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (kaisa.miettinen at jyu.fi) and Jussi Hakanen</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(jussi.hakanen at jyu.fi)
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">(University of Jyvaskyla)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">University of Jyvaskyla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">Multiobjective Optimization Group:
</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/</span></a>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">Faculty of Information Technology, P.O. Box 35 (Agora)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">* Director of the thematic research area Decision Analytics utilizing Causal Models
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">and Multiobjective Optimization,
</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.jyu.fi/demo"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.jyu.fi/demo</span></a>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">tel. +358 50 3732247 (mob.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">email: kaisa.miettinen at jyu.fi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">homepage:
</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"> and
</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">* Developing open source software framework DESDEO for interactive methods:
</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/desdeo.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/desdeo.html</span></a>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">My book: Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer:
</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI">* My publications:
</span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><a href="http://users.jyu.fi/~miettine/publ.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://users.jyu.fi/~miettine/publ.html</span></a>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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