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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="x_x_elementToProof x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">International Conference on Bilevel Optimization</b></span><span style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; display: inline !important; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"><b class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Southampton, UK, 8-11 August 2023</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(237, 92, 87);"><b class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Abstract submission (talks and posters) deadline has been extended to June 11th, 2023</b></span><br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"><b class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Support grants:</b></span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"> There
are about 10 grants of up to £400 pounds each, to support PhD students and early career researchers attending both the summer school (8 August) and the main conference (9-11 August), to be awarded on a competitive basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"><b class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Special Issue:<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span></b></span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">Submissions
are also opened for a special issue of the conference (in honor of Stephan Dempe) to be published by<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"> </span><i class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Optimization</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"><b class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">Organizing sessions and streams:</b></span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"> You
are invited to organize a special session or stream (of multiple sessions) related to any topic of the conference.</span></div>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">For more details, see the conference website: </span><a href="https://www.bilevelconference2023.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">https://www.bilevelconference2023.org/</span></a>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">Best wishes,</span></div>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">Alain Zemkoho</span></div>
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