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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Workshop <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Circuit Diameters and Augmentation:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Recent Advances in Linear and Integer Optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">May 15-19<br>
University of Colorado Denver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Applications and Registration are open! Please see here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://math.ucdenver.edu/~circuits-workshop-2023/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://math.ucdenver.edu/~circuits-workshop-2023/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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<h4 style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Applications for in-person participation are accepted until April 7.
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">Space and funding are limited. Student participants from US institutes can apply to receive up to $1,000 to offset travel costs.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<h4 style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">Registration for remote attendance (for days May 15 and 16) is open until May 5. Zoom links are sent out in the week of May 8. Local participants
are invited to join in-person, as space allows.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<h4 style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">Circuits are fundamental topics in linear programming, matroid, and network theory. This workshop is on two intimately connected fields of
study: circuit augmentation schemes and circuit diameters. Circuit augmentation schemes generalize the Simplex method through iterative improving steps along circuits instead of edges. Circuit diameters relate to the number of steps of these augmentation schemes
in the same way combinatorial diameters relate to the Simplex method, and they serve as a proxy to study combinatorial diameters. In the past decade, major progress has been made in both areas. This workshop brings together leaders in the research community
and young researchers interested in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The event is in-person. The workshop begins with two hybrid conference days, May 15 and 16, shown on zoom, too.
<span style="color:#444444;background:white">The event is sponsored through the National Science Foundation under Grant 2006183 "Circuit Walks in Optimization", Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF), Algorithmic Foundations.</span><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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