<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*********************************************************</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022 - 14th Metaheuristics International Conference</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">11-14 July 2022, Ortigia-Syracuse, Italy</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><a href="https://www.ants-lab.it/mic2022/" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(204,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mic2022/</a><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><a href="https://mbox.dmi.unict.it/imp/message.php?mailbox=U2VudA&uid=5957#" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(204,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">mic2022@ANTs-lab.it</a><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*********************************************************</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">** Submission deadline: 30th March 2022 **</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">NEWS</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">** Proceedings will be published in LNCS Volume (Springer)</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">** Special Issue in ITOR journal</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*Scope of the Conference</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">========================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">The Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC) conference series was established in 1995 and this is its 14th edition! </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC is nowadays the main event focusing on the progress of the area of Metaheuristics and their applications. As in all previous editions, provides an opportunity to the international research community in Metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old and make new friends in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Considering the particular moment, the conference will be held in presence and online mode. Of course, in case the conference will be held in presence, the organizing committee will ensure compliance of all safety conditions.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022 is focus on presentations that cover different aspects of metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact and original applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022  strives a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*Plenary Speakers</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">========================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">+ Christian Blum, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">+ Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">+ Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">+ Holger H. Hoos, Leiden University, The Netherlands</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">+ El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Important Dates</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Submission deadline           March 30th, 2022</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Notification of acceptance    May 10th, 2022</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Camera ready copy             May 25th, 2022</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Early registration            May 25th , 2022</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Submission Details</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">===================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022 accepts submissions in three different formats: ??S1) Regular paper: novel and original research contributions of a maximum of 15 pages  (LNCS format) ??S2) Short paper: extended abstract of novel research works of 6 pages (LNCS format) ??S3) Oral/Poster presentation: high-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">All papers must be prepared using Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template, and must be submitted in PDF at the link:</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">        </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mic2022" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(204,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mic2022</a><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Proceedings and special issue</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">============================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published as post-proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Accepted contributions of category S3 will be considered for oral or poster presentations at the conference based on the number received and the slots available, and will not be included into the LNCS proceedings. An electronic book instead will be prepared by the MIC 2022 organizing committee, and made available on the website.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">In addition, a post-conference special issue in International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) will be considered for the significantly extended and revised versions of selected accepted papers from categories S1 and S2.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Conference Location</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">====================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022 will be held in the beautiful Ortigia island, the historical centre of the city of Syracuse, Sicily-Italy. Syracuse is very famous for its ancient ruins, with particular reference to the Roman Amphitheater, Greek Theatre, and the Orecchio di Dionisio (Ear of Dionisio) that is a limestone cave shaped like a human ear. Syracuse is also the city where the greatest mathematician Archimede was born.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><a href="https://www.siracusaturismo.net/multimedia_lista.asp" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(204,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">https://www.siracusaturismo.net/multimedia_lista.asp</a><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC'2022 Conference Chairs</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">==============================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Conference Chairs</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">- Luca Di Gaspero, University of Undine, Italy</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">- Paola Festa, University of Naples, Italy</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">- Amir Nakib, Université Paris Est Créteil, France</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">- Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br></span></div></div>