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                                                          ICPR -
                                                          Americas 2020
                                                          - Call for
                                                          Papers</h1>
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href="http://www.matematica.uns.edu.ar/ipcra/default.php"
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style="margin:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">International Conference of
                                                          Production
                                                          Research -
                                                          Americas 2020</a></em></strong></h2>
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                                                          July 8, 9 and
                                                          10, 2020.
                                                          Bahía Blanca,
                                                          Argentina<br>
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target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
                                                          title="http://www.matematica.uns.edu.ar/ipcra/default.php"
style="margin:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">CONFERENCE LINK:
                                                          ICPR-Americas2020</a><br>
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color:rgb(20,20,18)"> <span style="margin:0px;
font-size:14pt"><span style="margin:0px">The International Conference of
                                                          Production
                                                          Research, ICPR
                                                          - Americas</span><span
style="margin:0px">2020 &lt;</span><a
                                                          href="http://www.matematica.uns.edu.ar/ipcra/default.php"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;
                                                          font-size:14.67px;
background-color:white" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="margin:0px;
font-size:14pt">http://www.matematica.uns.edu.ar/ipcra/default.php</span></a><span
style="margin:0px">&gt;, aims at </span><span style="margin:0px">exchanging
                                                          experiences
                                                          and
                                                          encouraging
                                                          collaborative
                                                          work among </span><span
style="margin:0px">researchers and practitioners from the Americas and
                                                          the Caribbean </span><span
style="margin:0px">region. The conference also seeks to plan and
                                                          organize the </span><span
style="margin:0px">activities of the Americas Region of the
                                                          International
                                                          Foundation of</span><br>
                                                          <span
                                                          style="margin:0px">Production
                                                          Research
                                                          (IFPR).</span><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <span
                                                          style="margin:0px">The
                                                          conference
                                                          will be held
                                                          at the
                                                          Universidad
                                                          Nacional del
                                                          Sur (UNS) </span><span
style="margin:0px">in Bahía Blanca, Argentina</span></span></div>
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background-color:white"> Topics of interest: (Please also visit our<span
style="margin:0px"> </span><a
                                                          href="http://www.matematica.uns.edu.ar/ipcra/default.php?boton=sps"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
                                                          title="http://www.matematica.uns.edu.ar/ipcra/default.php?boton=sps"
style="margin:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">Special Sessions section</a>)</h3>
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">The topics of interest include, but not limited to:</span></p>
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font-size:11.5px; font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;Century
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                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Supply Chain Management</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Healthcare Systems</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Efficiency and Sustainability</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Environmental and Social Issues</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Resource Management</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Management and Service Engineering</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Green Manufacturing</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Cleaner Production</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Energy Management</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Smart Cities</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Logistics</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Inventory Management</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Lean Manufacturing</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Production Networks</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Production Technology</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Quality and Standards</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Maintenance and Reliability</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Innovation Clusters</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Decision making process</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Operations Research</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">International Production</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Work Design and Ergonomics</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Automation and Manufacturing</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Advanced Manufacturing and Automation</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Production and Manufacturing Processes</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Assembly Line Technologies</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)">Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Technology and Innovation Management</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Virtual Engineering</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Cyber-Physical Production Systems</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Digital Twins</span></li>
                                                          <li
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Industry 4.0</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Smart Manufacturing<br>
                                                          </span></li>
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color:rgb(20,20,18)"> If you are interested in organizing a special
                                                          session as
                                                          part of
                                                          ICPR-Americas
                                                          2020, please
                                                          contact the
                                                          organizers
                                                          before
                                                          February 17,
                                                          2020 at <a
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href="mailto:icpr2020@uns.edu.ar" moz-do-not-send="true">icpr2020@uns.edu.ar</a>
                                                          <a
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href="mailto:icpr2020@uns.edu.ar" moz-do-not-send="true">&lt;mailto:
                                                          icpr2020@uns.edu.ar&gt;</a><span
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                                                          Important
                                                          Dates</h2>
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                                                          margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px"> Submission deadline: 17 April, 2020<br>
                                                          Acceptance
                                                          notification:
                                                          5 June, 2020<br>
                                                          Camera ready
                                                          due: 21 June,
                                                          2020<br>
                                                          Conference:
                                                          8-10 July,
                                                          2020</p>
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                                                          Publications</h2>
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font-family:&quot;Unicode MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
                                                          margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px"> All accepted papers will appear in the open access
                                                          online
                                                          conference
                                                          proceedings
                                                          which will
                                                          have DOI and
                                                          ISBN numbers
                                                          assigned. They
                                                          will be also
                                                          submitted for
                                                          indexation at
                                                          major
                                                          international
                                                          bibliographic
                                                          database. </p>
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font-family:&quot;Unicode MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
                                                          margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px"> Also, we are preparing Special Issues in Indexed
                                                          Journals for
                                                          the extension
                                                          of selected
                                                          papers from
                                                          the
                                                          conference.
                                                          Information
                                                          will be
                                                          published at
                                                          the website.</p>
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font-size:18pt; background-color:white; margin-top:8px;
                                                          margin-bottom:4px;
border-bottom:1px solid white"> <a
                                                          href="http://www.matematica.uns.edu.ar/ipcra/default.php?boton=spe"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
                                                          title="http://www.matematica.uns.edu.ar/ipcra/default.php?boton=spe"
style="margin:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">Plenary Speakers</a></h2>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px"><br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px">
                                                          <ul>
                                                          <li><span
                                                          style="margin:0px;
font-size:14pt">Professor </span><span style="margin:0px;
                                                          font-size:14pt;
text-align:justify">Jose M Framinan (University of Seville, Spain)</span></li>
                                                          <li><span
                                                          style="margin:0px;
font-size:14pt; text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px">Professor </span><span
style="margin:0px">Gonzalo Mejía Delgadillo (University of Sabana,
                                                          Colombia) </span></span></li>
                                                          <li>Professor <span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; text-align:justify">Sri Talluri
                                                          (Michigan
                                                          State
                                                          University,
                                                          USA)</span></li>
                                                          </ul>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; text-align:justify"><span
                                                          style="margin:0px"><br>
                                                          </span></span></div>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; text-align:justify">
                                                          <h2
                                                          style="color:rgb(3,38,45);
font-size:18pt; background-color:white; margin-top:8px;
                                                          margin-bottom:4px;
border-bottom:1px solid white"> Awards</h2>
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MS&quot;,&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,arial,sans-serif;
                                                          background-color:white;
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"> <span style="margin:0px;
font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Several prizes will be awarded at the ICPR-Americas
                                                          2020
                                                          conference,
                                                          honoring
                                                          distinguished
                                                          contributions:</span><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          </p>
                                                          <ul
                                                          style="color:black;
font-size:11.5px; font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;Century
                                                          Gothic&quot;,arial,sans-serif;
background-color:white; margin:0px 0px 0px 30px">
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Best industrial paper Award</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Best paper Award</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Best Young researcher's paper Award (for
                                                          postgraduate
                                                          students)</span></li>
                                                          <li
                                                          style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Commended paper Award</span></li>
                                                          <br>
                                                          </ul>
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MS&quot;,&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,arial,sans-serif;
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margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"> </p>
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MS&quot;,&quot;Century Gothic&quot;,arial,sans-serif;
                                                          background-color:white;
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"> <span style="margin:0px;
font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">The Awards Ceremony will take place during the Gala
                                                          Dinner on July
                                                          9, 2020</span></p>
                                                          <br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </span></div>
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                                                          Submission
                                                          guidelines</h2>
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font-size:18.67px; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)"> <span style="margin:0px">Authors are invited to
                                                          submit
                                                          original and
                                                          unpublished
                                                          papers or
                                                          extended
                                                          abstracts,
                                                          which are not
                                                          under review
                                                          in any other
                                                          conference or
                                                          journal. All
                                                          submissions
                                                          will be peer
                                                          reviewed by
                                                          the program
                                                          committee
                                                          based on their
                                                          originality,
                                                          significance,
                                                          methodological
                                                          soundness, and
                                                          clarity of
                                                          exposition.<br>
                                                          </span>
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                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px">Submissions
                                                          (extended
                                                          abstracts or
                                                          full papers)
                                                          could be
                                                          written in
                                                          English,
                                                          Spanish or
                                                          Portuguese and
                                                          should be in
                                                          PDF format.
                                                          They must
                                                          follow the
                                                          instructions
                                                          in the
                                                          template file,
                                                          available in
                                                          Microsoft Word
                                                          format at
                                                          conference
                                                          website.<br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px"><br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px">Submissions
                                                          imply the
                                                          willingness of
                                                          at least one
                                                          author to
                                                          register,
                                                          attend the
                                                          conference,
                                                          and present
                                                          the paper.<br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px"><br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div
                                                          style="margin:0px">ICPR-Americas
                                                          2020 is using
                                                          the Easychair
                                                          to manage the
                                                          submissions.
                                                          This platform
                                                          provides you
                                                          with a
                                                          submissions
                                                          homepage where
                                                          you can
                                                          register your
                                                          paper
                                                          submission and
                                                          make
                                                          appropriate
                                                          changes. The
                                                          authors must
                                                          indicate if
                                                          their
                                                          subimission is
                                                          for regular
                                                          Session
                                                          (General
                                                          Session) or to
                                                          some of the
                                                          Special
                                                          Sessions.<br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <span
                                                          style="margin:0px">The
                                                          submission
                                                          website will
                                                          be published
                                                          soon</span><br>
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                                                          </h2>
                                                          <h2
                                                          style="color:rgb(3,38,45);
font-size:18pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:4px; border-bottom:1px solid white"> About
                                                          the venue</h2>
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                                                          style="margin:0px;
font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">Bahía Blanca is the largest city of the Patagonian
                                                          region in
                                                          Argentina,
                                                          located on the
                                                          shore of the
                                                          Atlantic Sea.
                                                          It is a port
                                                          and industrial
                                                          city with an
                                                          active sports,
                                                          cultural and
                                                          commercial
                                                          life that
                                                          makes it a
                                                          great setting
                                                          for meetings,
                                                          favored by its
                                                          resources and
                                                          its high
                                                          connectivity.
                                                          More than 20
                                                          long-distance
                                                          bus companies
                                                          operate to all
                                                          parts of the
                                                          country as
                                                          well as
                                                          several daily
                                                          flights to the
                                                          city of Buenos
                                                          Aires. </span></div>
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style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
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color:rgb(20,20,18)"><br>
                                                          </span><span
                                                          style="margin:0px"></span><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)">More info at<span style="margin:0px"> </span><a
                                                          href="https://www.bahia.gob.ar/conoce/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
                                                          title="https://www.bahia.gob.ar/conoce/"
style="margin:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">this link</a>.</span>
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                                                          style="margin:0px;
font-size:14pt; font-family:&quot;Unicode
                                                          MS&quot;,Verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:rgb(20,20,18)"><span> </span>The organizing committee looks
                                                          forward to
                                                          welcoming you
                                                          all to a
                                                          fruitful
                                                          conference
                                                          with open
                                                          discussions
                                                          inside and
                                                          across the
                                                          different
                                                          fields
                                                          involved in
                                                          the
                                                          conference.</span></div>
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