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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Lehigh Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) invites you to participate in the <b><font color="#990000">Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) 2025</font></b> Conference, which will take place in <b><font color="#38761d">Ponta Delgada, Azores,</font><font color="#274e13"> </font><font color="#38761d">Portugal</font></b> during <b>June 17-20, 2025</b>.</span></font>

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We will be celebrating the <b style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">70th Birthday of Professor Tamás Terlaky</b><font color="#000000">, who founded MOPTA</font> 25 years ago. There will be a <b><font color="#990000">Tamas-70 Session and Dinner</font></b>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> the impactful and long-lasting 
contributions of Tamás to the fields and communities of optimization, 
operations research, and industrial engineering. 

</span></font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2">We will be celebrating <span>MOPTA's</span> 25th anniversary and the </font><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoral.ise.lehigh.edu%2Fise100%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7Ce9c51381f4ac498ca4ca08dccc0b2663%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638609595493569356%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KAL%2F%2BaOo%2BghYtqw%2F5A6HcjAmlYkQhI5ve7Yew0SY1xY%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://coral.ise.lehigh.edu/ise100/" shash="KyOu2RAKv/CBgKfkJy5g7eJWHC7avjGSvSxLtgSDgBms4ZVjjsszCULTh8vr0mkhr2UYrQ8f5WN34/vbqHit3G+y2K5pBRf1nXV1qSeyvraU8RzXGqSDjaJqO6OkNXi4kGThg5BWrJfWVuvONopjiNKc9Jgzptj0MkmhOphmpG4=" target="_blank">Lehigh ISE 100 Anniversary</a>. 

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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We will be holding the</span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">17th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition</span></b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">,</span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">for which the case study will be posted in November 2024.</span></font></div>

</div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><b>MOPTA 2025 plenaries:</b> </div><div>Serge Gratton (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France)</div><div>Oktay Günlük (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) </div><div>Ojas D. Parekh (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)</div><div>Julie L. Swann (North Carolina State University, USA)</div><div>Jared Tanner (University of Oxford, UK)</div><div>Karen E. Willcox (University of Texas at Austin, USA)<br><br><b>Tamas-70 Session invited talks: <br></b></div><div>Mohammad Hossein (Lehigh University, USA)</div><div>Etienne de Klerk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)</div><div>Tibor Illés (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)</div><div>Imre Pólik (SAS Institute, USA)<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%">
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