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Kolda Hai Lin Minitutorials ............................................10 Sandia National Laboratories, USA University of Notre Dame, USA Association for Women in Mathematics Sonia Martínez (AWM) Workshop ..............................11 Anita T. Layton Duke University, USA University of California, San Diego, Workshop Celebrating Diversity .............12 USA Student Days ...........................................14 Youzuo Lin Special Events .........................................16 Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Amit Surana Invited Presentations ...............................19 United Technologies Research Center, General Information Youssef Marzouk Prize and Special Lectures ......................24 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA USA Prizes and Awards Luncheon ..................27 Samuli Siltanen Mario Sznaier AN17 Program Schedule ......................33 University of Helsinki, Finland Northeastern University, USA AMS Invited Speaker ..............................39 AN17 Poster Session ..............................60 Barbara Wohlmuth TU Munchen, Germany CT17 Program Schedule ....................113 Industrial and Applied CT17 Poster Session .............................137 GD17 Program Schedule ....................149 Geometry (GD17) GD17 Poster Session ............................159 Control and Its Applications Co-Chairs AN17 Speaker (CT17) and Organizer Index .........................165 David Field CT17 Speaker Co-chairs General Motors Research and and Organizer Index .........................173 Development Center, USA Wei Kang GD17 Speaker Naval Postgraduate School, USA Jens Gravesen and Organizer Index .........................177 Technical University of Denmark, Combined Conference Budget…Inside Qing Zhang Denmark Back Cover University of Georgia, USA DLCC Floor Plan .....................Back Cover Organizing Committee Organizing Committee Gudrun Albrecht Piermarco Cannarsa Université de Valenciennes et du Organizing Committees University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy Hainaut-Cambrésis, France Eduardo Cerpa Annual Meeting (AN17) George Allen Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Siemens PLM Software, USA Co-chairs María, Chile Thomas Grandine Des Higham Francois Dufour The Boeing Company, USA University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Université de Bordeaux and Inria Stefanie Hahmann Jennifer Mueller Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France University Grenoble, LJK, Inria, France Colorado State University, USA Fariba Fahroo DARPA, USA (AN17 liaison) Stephen Mann Organizing Committee University of Waterloo, Canada Leonid Fridman Andrea L. 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