<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;min-height:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hope you are doing well and that you are safe and healthy!</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;min-height:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Raghu Bollapragada and I are organizing the cluster of sessions on Nonlinear Optimization at </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">the <span style="margin:0px"></span><a href="https://cecas.clemson.edu/informs-conference/" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://cecas.clemson.edu/informs-conference/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">2022 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference</a> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(March 13-15, 2022; </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Greenville, SC). We are reaching out to see if you </span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(or your students, collaborators, colleagues) are interested in organizing a Nonlinear Optimization session(s) and/or giving a talk.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;min-height:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Abstract submission deadline: <span style="margin:0px"></span><b>December 31, 2021</b>.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;min-height:17px"><span style="margin:0px"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">If you are interested in organizing a session, please send us an email (<a href="mailto:aberahas@umich.edu" target="_blank">aberahas@umich.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:raghu.bollapragada@utexas.edu" target="_blank">raghu.bollapragada@utexas.edu</a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">) with the session title. Please also help share this information with your students/collaborators/colleagues.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px;min-height:14px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Albert S. Berahas and Raghu Bollapragada</span></p>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Albert S. Berahas</div></div>