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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Registrations are now open for the <a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/cormsis/news/events/2019/10/18-optml-event.page" id="LPlnk452039">Workshop on Optimization and Machine
Learning</a> taking place on 18th of October 2019 at the University of Southampton. <br>
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The event is sponsored by <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.turing.ac.uk%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7Cad235c36e893428a34d608d726221c48%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=5i5WGmRTrZGMmtjaltSBtnWQvbseZu60IvmXl0xgbBY%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.turing.ac.uk/" shash="G/TkMkDHIozWQ3LlmzoknCwM546izaPevFr8We/5Y4QHLJr4v/KjndqvcTXvmHDHALV7tA5ZlcSfnGjFUqUcsPki36EaP4x0KGY73ACz/183QVTR5lcCdmYRbomvOa6GztZIqKspSqceElAkUUkuPkdXyOgtmCq1Kj7QmiWaZ3w=" id="LPlnk779888">The
Alan Turing Institute</a>, the UK's National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and will feature invited talks from top machine learning and optimization experts, as well as practitioners from companies using and/or developing machine
learning tools to solve real-world problems. A poster session dedicated to algorithms and applications of machine learning will also take place during the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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through the website of the event by clicking on this link</a>. You have the option to provide a title and abstract if you would like to present a poster. The final list of participants will be confirmed in due course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Alain Zemkoho<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">e-mail: <a href="mailto:optml@southampton.ac.uk">optml@southampton.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">website: <a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/cormsis/news/events/2019/10/18-optml-event.page" id="LPlnk75771">https://www.southampton.ac.uk/cormsis/news/events/2019/10/18-optml-event.page</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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