subject: Special Issue of J. of Combinatorial Optimization
for
workshop on:

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     Semidefinite Programming and Interior-Point Approaches for
           Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Wednesday May 15- Friday 17, 1996
to be held at
The Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(More Information is available on WWW with URL:
     http://orion.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/fields.d/readme.html  )
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Dear Colleagues,
   This message is going to individuals who have expressed an interest
in the workshop or who have not yet replied to our invitation to
participate in the workshop.

We currently have 29 talks scheduled and are looking forward to a very
successful workshop. You can see the list of talks and abstracts over
WWW with the above URL. You can also get hotel and other information
there. Please tell us if you have any further questions.


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                                Special Issue in

                       J. of Combinatorial Optimization

Following the workshop, there will be a proceedings volume published by AMS. In
addition, there will be a special issue of J. of Combinatorial Optimization for
a few (6-7) selected papers. All papers will be fully refereed.
If you would like to submit your paper to the special issue of J. of
Combinatorial Optimization, please do so as soon as possible. The deadline for
this special issue is June 1, 1996. You can submit the paper by email or
by regular mail. (Email is preferred.)

If the paper you are presenting is available over WWW, please send us
the URL. We will establish the link as a permanent record of the
workshop.

Editors of Volumes:
  pardalos@math.ufl.edu
 Panos Pardalos (University of Florida),
   henry
 Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo),