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          style="mso-spacerun:yes">             </span>The 9th IEEE
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        33rd IEEE International </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">FINAL
        DEADLINE: February 17, 2019</span></p>
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        Special Issue invitation for selected best papers:</span></p>
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        Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier</span><span><strong><span
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The
        IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and
        Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific
        researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of
        parallel or distributed combinatorics for difficult optimization
        problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The
        latter include for instance 0-1 multidimensional knapsack
        problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear
        programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global
        optimization and scheduling problems. </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Emphasis
        will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult
        optimization problems, like cooperative methods for integer
        programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid
        methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing
        (CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit submissions of
        original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related
        topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and
        tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems.
        Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed
        combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as theoretical
        issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Application
        domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud
        computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance,
        telecommunications and computational biology. </span></p>
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        Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods; </span></p>
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        Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial
        optimization; </span></p>
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        Parallel / distributed<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>metaheuristics;
      </span></p>
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        Nature inspired parallel / distributed computing; </span></p>
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        Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming;
      </span></p>
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        Global optimization, polynomial optimization; </span></p>
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        Cooperative methods, hybrid methods; </span></p>
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        Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load
        balancing; </span></p>
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        Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics,
        manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational
        biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing.
      </span></p>
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        Committee: </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Pascal
        Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair) </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Didier
        El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair) </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">El-Ghazali
        Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Albert
        Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia </span></p>
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        Chairs: </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Grégoire
        Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Didier
        El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France </span></p>
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    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Program
        Chairs: </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">===============
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Vincent
        Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Bernabe
        Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Publicity
        Chairs: </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">=================
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Keqin
        Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Laurence
        T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Program
        Committee: </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">====================================
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">A.
        Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">J.-N.
        Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">J.
        J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">S.
        Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">M.
        Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">K.
        Li, State University of New York, USA</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">N.
        Melab, University of Lille, France</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">M.
        Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">A.
        Nakib, University Paris 12, France</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">S.
        Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">S.
        Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">C.
        Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">T.
        Saadi, University of Picardie, France</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">M.
        Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology,
        Luxembourg</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">G.
        Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">G.
        Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">A.
        Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">S.
        Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">F.
        Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">L.T.
        Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Submission
        : </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">============
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Papers
        in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE
        Xplore Digital Library after the conference. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Prospective
        authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2019
        submission system (EasyChair): <a
          href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2019"><span
            style="color:#0950D0">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2019</span></a></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Abstract
        and paper can be uploaded until February 17, 2019. Authors
        should preferably follow the manuscript specifications<span
          style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>of IEEE IPDPS, i.e.
        submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced
        double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch
        pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and
        references. Style templates are available on <a
          href="http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2019/2019-call-for-papers.html"><span
            style="color:#0950D0">IPDPS website</span></a>. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Special
        Issue:</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">============</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Selected
        papers from PDCO 2019 will be invited to submit an extended
        version to a special issue of an international high-quality
        journal. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be
        made available on the conference website. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Important
        Dates: </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">================
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">-
        Submission Deadline: February 17, 2019</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">-
        Author notification: March 1, 2019</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">-
        Camera ready version: March 15, 2019<br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">-
        Workshop: May 20, 2019 </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Contact:
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">========
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">For
        questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference
        organizers at <a href="mailto:pdco2019@sciencesconf.org"><span
            style="color:#0950D0">pdco2019@sciencesconf.org</span></a></span></p>
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