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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">23<sup>rd</sup> IFORS Triennial Conference</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">Santiago, Chile, July 10 - 14, 2023</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">There are over 40 clusters already identified which span a diversity of OR topics.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">The</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES"> invited clusters
and their chairs are found at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fifors2023.com%2Fclusters&data=05%7C01%7Ckaisa.miettinen%40jyu.fi%7C13acc9aa458c456c2bde08db15877c03%7Ce9662d58caa44bc1b138c8b1acab5a11%7C1%7C0%7C638127443875095473%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rU58QtFSN%2BNeS4qdLAvFS1IR8v0d8CGn%2BHKt3H1ta%2BM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:ES">https://ifors2023.com/clusters</span></u></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">.
Abstracts must be written in English with a maximum of 2500 characters; submission deadline:
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">All accepted and presented abstracts will be published online as a monograph with ISBN / DOI identifier numbers.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">We have six exciting options for the included
<i>Cultural Tours</i> during the conference – possibilities include emphasis on arts, wine regions, and skiing in the Andes! See details of the tours here:
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Margaret Brandeau, Stanford University, USA</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Juan Carlos Muñoz, Minister of Transportation of the Chilean Government and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Paolo Toth, Università di Bologna, Italy (The EURO Plenary)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">Andrés Weintraub, University of Chile</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:ES">Stimulating Keynotes:</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Rene de Koster, Erasmus University</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:ES">,
The Netherlands</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Brian Denton, University of Michigan, USA</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Andrea Lodi, Cornell Tech, USA, and the Technion, Israel</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Tava Olsen, Melbourne Business School</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:ES">,
Australia</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-fareast-language:ES">Memorable Tutorials:</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Carleton Coffrin, National Laboratory at Los Alamos Fred Glover, Entanglement, Inc., and Gary Kochenberger, Entanglement, Inc., USA;
<i>A Tutorial on Quantum Computing and Combinatorial Optimization</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Nesim K. Erkip, Bilkent University, Turkey:
<i>Inventory Problems with Heterogeneous Customers</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Andres Gomez Escobar, University of Southern California, USA:
<i>Machine Learning</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ES">Rosa G. González Ramírez, University of Los Andes (Chile) and Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, University of Twente (The Netherlands):
<i>Seaside Planning: Overview and Implementation</i> (2 sessions)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:5.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">Kate Smith-Miles, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia:
<i>Stress-testing Algorithms via Instance Space Analysis</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">The conference webpage
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fifors2023.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ckaisa.miettinen%40jyu.fi%7C13acc9aa458c456c2bde08db15877c03%7Ce9662d58caa44bc1b138c8b1acab5a11%7C1%7C0%7C638127443875095473%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=THKyN1LunSlOPP0FTHm0aolLGr%2BWzn2YkTDyfkhK7kY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:ES">https://ifors2023.com/</span></u></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">has details about the hotels with special conference rates along with more logistical information.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">Registration opens in March!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">We look forward to welcoming you to beautiful and interesting Chile!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">Prof. Dr. Alice Smith PC Chair
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:smithae@auburn.edu" target="_blank"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:ES">smithae@auburn.edu</span></u></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ES">Prof. Dr. Jorge Vera OC Co-Chair
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