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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a friendly reminder to submit your abstracts to the Facilities Design and Planning Track by Friday, November 17 for the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2024 to be held in Montreal, Canada. For more information, please see the attachment
for the “Call for Abstracts & Presentation Summaries”. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstract submission link: <a href="https://www.iise.org/Annual/" title="https://www.iise.org/Annual/">https://www.iise.org/Annual/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Taner Cokyasar (on behalf of Facilities Design and Planning Track Chairs)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Facilities Design and Planning Track Chairs:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mike Sherwin (<a href="mailto:sherwinm@duq.edu">sherwinm@duq.edu</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tanveer Hossain Bhuiyan (<a href="mailto:Tanveer.Bhuiyan@utsa.edu">Tanveer.Bhuiyan@utsa.edu</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Natalie Cherbaka (<a href="mailto:cherbaka@vt.edu">cherbaka@vt.edu</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Junfeng Ma (<a href="mailto:ma@ise.msstate.edu">ma@ise.msstate.edu</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cori Mowrey (<a href="mailto:cmowrey1@udayton.edu">cmowrey1@udayton.edu</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ravi Vengadam (<a href="mailto:ravi.vengadam@target.com">ravi.vengadam@target.com</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">_______________________________________</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Taner Cokyasar, Ph.D.</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Consultant</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">The Transportation and Power Systems Division</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Argonne National Laboratory</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439</span></a></span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:black;mso-ligatures:none">_______________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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