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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">We are writing to invite you to participate in the online conference "Theoretical and Foundational Problems in Information Studies", as a part of the</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">
IS4SI online Summit, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">September 12 – 19, 2021,
<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/is4si2021">https://sites.google.com/view/is4si2021</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">The purpose of this Conference is to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners providing beneficial conditions for presenting and discussing recent achievements
in information studies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">This invitation goes to the information science researchers who contribute the to the core of this exciting area as well as theoreticians from other disciplines who use
information theory in their studies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">It is our pleasure to encourage you, as an active researcher, to present your results in this area at the Conference, and to recommend for participation those of your
colleagues who have interesting results in Information studies and related research fields.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">To participate, please send a tentative title and a short abstract of your talk (from 5 sentences to 1 page) to
<a href="mailto:mburgin@math.ucla.edu">mburgin@math.ucla.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">More information and deadlines can be found on the web page
<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/is4si2021">https://sites.google.com/view/is4si2021</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Accepted extended abstracts (1 – 2 pages) will be published online in the Book of Abstracts of the Summit. Selected short papers (3 – 5 pages) will be published in a
journal as the Summit Proceedings. The best contributions will be included in the book published after the
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Conference and/or published in the journals affiliated with the Summit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Mark Burgin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Conference Chair
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Vice President of the IS4SI for Publication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><a href="mailto:mburgin@math.ucla.edu"><span lang="SV">mburgin@math.ucla.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Gordana Dodig- Crnkovic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Member of the Organizing committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Vice President of the IS4SI for Protocol<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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