<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Register today and take advantage of the special rates available for individuals attending the 5</span>^th<span style="font-size:10pt">International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science LOD - An Interdisciplinary Conference: Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data without Borders, this September 10-13 in Siena.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">          <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="https://lod2019.icas.xyz">https://lod2019.icas.xyz</a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:lod@icas.xyz" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:windowtext">lod@icas.xyz</span></a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">LOD 2019 is a great opportunity to present your work and congregate with leaders and experts in the Deep Learning, Optimization and Big Data. Feel free to check out our keynote speakers:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London, UK<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:5pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Arthur Gretton, UCL, UK <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:5pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Arthur Guez Google DeepMind, Montreal, UK<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:5pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman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span><span style="font-size:10pt">Reinforcement Learning<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Deep Learning<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Generative Adversarial Networks<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Deep Neuroevolution<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Networks with Memory<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Learning from Less Data and Building Smaller Models<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Simulation Environments to understand how AI Systems Learn<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Chatbots and Conversational Agents</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Data Science at Scale & Data in the Cloud<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Urban Informatics & Data-Driven Modelling of Complex Systems<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Data-centric Engineering</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt">Data Security, Traceability of Information & GDPR<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Economic Data Science</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagrap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