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 Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2025)</b> will be held during July 21-24, 2025, in Bozeman, MT, USA. (Bozeman is 90 miles away from Yellowstone National Park, and late July is probably the best time to visit Yellowstone.)</span></p>

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 webpage</b>: https://www.cs.montana.edu/bhz/iwoca2025/</span></p>

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 Dates </b>(a.o.e.)</span></p>

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 submission: February 27, 2025</span></p>

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 submission: March 02, 2025</span></p>

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 April 22, 2025</span></p>

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 Ready: April 30, 2025</span></p>

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 July 21-24, 2025</span></p>

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 topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p>

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 Hoc, Dynamic and Evolving Networks</span></p>

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 and Data Structures</span></p>

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 on Strings & Graphs</span></p>

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 for Big Data and Networks Analytics</span></p>

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 Game Theory</span></p>

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 Algorithms</span></p>

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 Generation, Enumeration and Counting</span></p>

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 Optimization</span></p>

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 Theory</span></p>

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 of Words</span></p>

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 Algebra and Geometry</span></p>

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 Biology</span></p>

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 and Information Security</span></p>

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 and Parallel Algorithms</span></p>

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 Evaluation of Algorithms</span></p>

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 Complexity</span></p>

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 of Cloud Computing</span></p>

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 Algorithms for Social Network Analysis</span></p>

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 Drawing and Labelling</span></p>

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 Theory & Combinatorics</span></p>

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 Agents</span></p>

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 Paradigms of Computation</span></p>

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 Algorithms</span></p>

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 and Exact Algorithms</span></p>

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 and Randomized Algorithms</span></p>

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 Algorithms</span></p>

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 proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer, within the ARCoSS subline.</span></p>

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 Special Issues</b></span></p>

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 of selected papers accepted to IWOCA will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a Special Issue in some reputed journals.</span></p>

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 will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be eligible for the best student paper award, at least one of the paper authors must be a full-time student at the time of submission, and the student(s) must have made a significant contribution

 to the paper.</span></p>

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 program committee may decline to make these awards or may split them.</span></p>

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 instructions</b></span></p>

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 are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research in the topics related to the symposium. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. It is required that each accepted

 paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors.</span></p>

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 must be in the form of a single pdf file prepared using the LNCS latex templates and style files. Springer�s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available on Overleaf. Springer�s authors� guidelines may be consulted here. Springer encourages authors to include

 their ORCIDs in their papers, and requires to draw the attention of the contributing conference paper authors to the Code of Conduct.</span></p>

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 submission should consist of the main part of the paper, not exceeding 12 pages (including the title page and excluding the references), plus an optional clearly marked appendix (to be read at the discretion of the program committee). Any figure pertaining

 to the main part of the paper should be included therein (within the 12 page limit). The first page must include an indication of whether the paper is eligible for the best student paper award.</span></p>

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 not conforming to the above rules as well as papers outside of the scope of the conference will be rejected with�out consideration.</span></p>

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 are to be submitted electronically through EquinOCS at the following link: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/iwoca2025</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Program

 Chairs</b></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Henning

 Fernau, University of Trier, Germany</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Binhai

 Zhu, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Program

 Committee</b></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Cristina

 Bazgan, Universit� Paris Dauphine, France</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Sergey

 Bereg,</span> <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">

University of Texas-Dallas, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Laurent

 Bulteau, CNRS and Universit� Gustave Eiffel, France</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Gruia

 Calinescu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Zhi-Zhong

 Chen, Tokyo Denki University, Japan</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Maria

 Chudnovsky, Princeton University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Riccardo

 Dondi, University of Bergamo, Italy</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Piotr

 Faliszewski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Henning

 Fernau, Universit�t Trier, Germany</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Pamela

 Fleischmann, Universit�t Kiel, Germany</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Pawel

 Gawrychowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Gregory

 Gutin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Adriana

 Hansberg, UNAM, Mexico</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Pavol

 Hell, Simon Fraser University, Canada</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Yuya

 Higashikawa, University of Hyogo, Japan</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Ling-ju

</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Hung,

 National Taipei University of Business, Taiwan</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Haitao

 Jiang, Shandong University, China</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Dominik

 Koeppl, University of Yamanashi, Japan</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Christian

 Komusiewicz, Friedrich Schiller Universit�t Jena, Germany</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Manuel

 Lafond, University of Sherbrooke, Canada</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Guohui

 Lin, University of Alberta, Canada</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Adiesha

 Liyanage, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Neeldhara

 Misra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Brendan

 Mumey, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Sang-il

 Oum, IBS and KAIST, Korea</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Arash

 Rafiey, Indiana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Hadas

</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Shachnai,

 Technion, Israel</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Ueverton

 Souza, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Lusheng

 Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Sean

 Yaw, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Boting

 Yang, University of Regina, Canada</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Binhai

 Zhu, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Sandra

 Zilles, University of Regina, Canada</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Organizing

 Committee</b></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Adiesha

 Liyanage, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Brendan

 Mumey, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Sean

 Yaw, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Binhai

 Zhu, Montana State University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><b><br>

Steering Committee</b></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Maria

 Chudnovsky, Princeton University, USA</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Henning

 Fernau, Universit�t Trier, Germany</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Ralf

 Klasing, CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Wing-Kin

 (Ken) Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore</span></p>

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