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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Dear Optimization Friends,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Stockholm Global Optimization Workshop 2025 (STOGO) is held in Stockholm from September 2 - 5.
</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/stogo25/">https://sites.google.com/view/stogo25/</a></p>
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Please submit an abstract if you want to give a talk. Abstract submission is open! The workshop covers all aspects of global optimization, and all presenters will be invited to submit full papers in special issues in top journals (Journal of Global Optimization
 is confirmed, and we hope to have a special issue also in Mathematical Programming).<span class="white-space-pre">
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Anyone who is planning to attend, please submit the survey of interest form:<span class="white-space-pre">
<a href="https://forms.gle/ZhbtvatcBYCpuDrZ7">https://forms.gle/ZhbtvatcBYCpuDrZ7</a>  </span>(this helps us estimate the number of participants and makes planning easier).</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Best regards,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Jan</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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