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<span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px;color:black;background-color:white"><i><span class="x_x_x_elementToProof" style="margin:0px">An International <span data-markjs="true" class="x_x_x_markr840kdvlj" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">Conference</span> on
Bilevel Optimization</span><span class="x_x_x_elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"> will take </span>place from the 8th to the 11</span><sup>th</sup><span style="margin:0px"> of August 2023 at the University of Southampton, UK (</span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bilevelconference2023.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7CA.B.Zemkoho%40soton.ac.uk%7C4b06d3d58ea94dfe877308db07bc0faa%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C638112276530833149%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BRf7CCu0hrYDXPUswh%2BtUseE1yXGmeYIkipF9fpJSI8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" shash="fqYu7NlaBWDIWv44+TepdrwQRg7QVtCf6nhgxs/mAYWj9WKRkxNkjh+FC06V659MszQvxYhbS8FmgZPTJjXBiFvNSOH7I+A6oXr7gU4R5am1zj+CCaMbXiqfiMi8rxYp9tuXJYs5W4wQP7PsnK34xP7Oj+G/HfFhChPq8FmYz/w=" title="Original URL: https://www.bilevelconference2023.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-linkindex="0" class="" data-loopstyle="link" data-safelink="true" style="margin:0px">bilevelconference2023.org</a><span style="margin:0px">). </span></i></span></div>
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<div class="x_x_x_elementToProof x_x_x_ContentPasted17" style="margin:0px">The conference will be a forum to discuss recent advances in all aspects of bilevel optimization and connected areas such as mathematical programs with equilibrium or complementarity
constraints, optimization problems under uncertainty, minmax optimization, semi-infinite optimization, Stackelberg games, and the more general hierarchical optimization problems.<br>
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<div class="x_x_x_elementToProof x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><u><b>CALL FOR STREAMS & ABSTRACTS</b></u></div>
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Abstracts are invited for talks and posters on any theoretical, numerical, or application topic related to bilevel optimization. We also welcome the organization of sessions/streams for the conference; for details on how to proceed with submissions for streams
or sessions, see <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bilevelconference2023.org%2Fcall-for-abstracts&data=05%7C01%7CA.B.Zemkoho%40soton.ac.uk%7C4b06d3d58ea94dfe877308db07bc0faa%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C638112276530833149%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MbHpd15ljbJLDkWv1cKxtG5NhJMNnAUrewAc94pgN0E%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" shash="WxPTE8d2moFQpcxz2u2O2nvbjC27iqzkKnAsavV71khDk6w9hj9AIpcOMXeVYatrxJp6NSiwiCoriQBZs+38PN3696mziDpCpoB3HMqzeQBuAUeRHH2Qci+xyTy0exJUXLBsQyGEPYTLCx6Dc9kJXvS9ACJyhnYL7khSF8W3kTg=" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="1" class="" title="Original URL: https://www.bilevelconference2023.org/call-for-abstracts. Click or tap if you trust this link." style="margin:0px">https://www.bilevelconference2023.org/call-for-abstracts</a></div>
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<div class="x_x_x_elementToProof x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><u><b class="x_x_x_ContentPasted2" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">KEYNOTES SPEAKERS</b><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted2" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span></u></div>
<div class="x_x_x_elementToProof x_x_x_ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted2" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Stephan Dempe, Technical University of Freiberg, Germany</span></div>
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there will be a </span>summer school on two of the fastest growing areas of bilevel optimization:</span></div>
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<div class="x_x_x_elementToProof" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white">PhD students and early-career researchers are invited to take part in a poster competition by making a submission on any topic related to bilevel optimization,
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