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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>BigDat 2021 Autumn</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Beersheba, Israel</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>October 10-14, 2021</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Co-organized by:</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Data Science Research Center</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Brussels/London</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>SCOPE:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>BigDat 2021 Autumn will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timișoara, Cambridge and Ancona.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Big data is a broad field covering a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>ADDRESSED TO:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2021 Autumn is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>VENUE:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>BigDat 2021 Autumn will take place in Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel and an important technology center. The venue will be:</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/interactive.aspx</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>STRUCTURE:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Valerie Daggett (University of Washington), Dynameomics: From Atomistic Simulations of All Protein Folds to the Discovery of a New Protein Structure to the Design of a Diagnostic Test for Alzheimer’s Disease</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Maria Girone (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Big Data Challenges at the CERN HL-LHC</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Lisa Schurer Lambert (Oklahoma State University), Research Methods as a Lens: How We Know What We Know</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>PROFESSORS AND COURSES:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Paolo Addesso (University of Salerno), [introductory/intermediate] Data Fusion for Remotely Sensed Data</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Thomas Bäck & Hao Wang (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Driven Modeling and Optimization for Industrial Applications</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Marcelo Bertalmío (Pompeu Fabra University), [intermediate] Novel Vision Models in Image Processing, and How They Can Improve Artificial Neural Networks</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Gianluca Bontempi (Université Libre de Bruxelles), [intermediate/advanced] Machine Learning against Credit-card Fraud: Lessons Learned from a Real Case</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Altan Cakir (Istanbul Technical University), [intermediate] Big Data Analytics with Apache Spark</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Michael X. Cohen (Radboud University Nijmegen), [introductory] Dimension Explosion and Dimension Reduction in Brain Electrical Activity</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate] Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Data</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Ian Fisk (Flatiron Institute), [introductory] The Infrastructure to Support Data Science</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Michael Freeman (University of Washington), [intermediate] Interactive Data Visualization Using D3 + Observable</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>David Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Derive Meaning from Data with R Visualizations</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Christopher W.V. Hogue (Ericsson Inc.), [introductory] Applied Information Theory for Scalable Database Schema and Query Templates</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Ravi Kumar (Google), [intermediate/advanced] Clustering for Big Data</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Victor O.K. Li (University of Hong Kong), [intermediate] Deep Learning and Applications</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory] Graph Signal Processing</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Optimization and Data Sciences Techniques for Large Networks</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Valeriu Predoi (University of Reading), [introductory] A Beginner's Guide to Big Data Analysis: How to Connect Scientific Software Development with Real World Problem</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Karsten Reuter (Max Planck Society), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning for Materials and Energy Applications</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network-based Health Analytics</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Steven Skiena (Stony Brook University), [introductory/intermediate] Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Miriam Sturkenboom (University Medical Center Utrecht), [intermediate] Data Transformation Pipeline from Heterogeneous Existing Big Health Data into Real World Evidence</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Alexandre Vaniachine (VirtualHealth), [intermediate] Open-source Columnar Databases</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [intermediate/advanced] Supervised Descriptive Pattern Mining</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Xiaowei Xu (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), [introductory/advanced] Language Models and Applications</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>OPEN SESSION:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by October 2, 2021.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>INDUSTRIAL SESSION:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by October 2, 2021.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>EMPLOYER SESSION:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by October 2, 2021.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Stavi Baram (Beersheba)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Mark Last (Beersheba)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Sara Morales (Brussels)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Lior Rokach (Beersheba, co-chair)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Bracha Shapira (Beersheba, co-chair)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>David Silva (London, co-chair)</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>REGISTRATION:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>It has to be done at</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>https://irdta.eu/bigdat2021a/registration/</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will get exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>FEES:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time at</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021a/accommodation/</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>CERTIFICATE:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>david@irdta.eu</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style='font-family:"Cambria",serif'>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev</span></span></span></span></p>
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