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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(114, 50, 173); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Confirmed Invited Speakers:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(114, 50, 173); font-weight: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"> <span class="x_xc9dxtc"><i>Leonid
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State, USA; <i>Konstantin Khanin</i>, University of Toronto, Canada; <i> Vera Roshchina</i>, UNSW, Sydney, Australia<span class="x_xc9dxtc">; </span><i>Michael Bialy</i>,<span class="x_xc9dxtc"> T</span>el Aviv University, Israel<span class="x_xc9dxtc">;<i>Sergey
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Zatitskii,</i> U<span class="x_xc9dxtc">niversity of Cincinnati, USA</span>;<span class="x_xc9dxtc"> <i>Alexey Glutsyuk</i>, Unité de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, Lyon, France; <i>Delfim F. M. Torres</i></span>, <span class="x_xc9dxtc">University of
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