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<span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4; font-weight: 700;">CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:</span><span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4; font-weight: 700;">22nd annual "COIN-OR Cup" competition sponsored by the COIN-OR Foundation</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41);">The COIN-OR Cup recognizes outstanding contributions to the
</span><span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4;"><i>development</i></span><span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41);"> and/or
</span><span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4;"><i>use</i></span><span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41);"> of
open-source operations research software associated with the COIN-OR software collection.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41);">We invite you to nominate or submit an open-source project, either as a new contribution to the COIN-OR collection or as an application of an
existing COIN-OR project in a real-world setting.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 16.8667px;">COIN-OR stands for "COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research." We value the development and use of free, open-source operations research
software made available to the optimization community through an easy-to-access repository. For more details, visit
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 48, 135); line-height: 1.4;"><a href="https://github.com/coin-or" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="622fa93bb0ebf976bd76e19a" data-outlook-id="57af06dc-6f48-436f-ba20-0692abc16e92" style="color: rgb(0, 48, 135); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://github.com/coin-or</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 16.8667px;">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4; font-weight: 700;">GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41);">A submission or nomination must include:</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">A synopsis of an effective use of COIN-OR project(s), a valuable contribution to the COIN-OR collection, or both, including an explanation of its significance. The synopsis must be no
more than 3 pages in PDF format.</span></li><li style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4;">
<span style="line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Copies of relevant papers or documents in PDF format. We especially encourage nominations that describe effective uses of COIN-OR that may not be widely known in the community.</span></li><li style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4;">
<span style="line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">A submission of this Google form:
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 48, 135); line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><a href="https://forms.gle/ShAijfRsYSZCpjEG9" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="622fa93bb0ebf976bd76e19a" data-outlook-id="f1da4e0a-ead0-4cf9-bc11-007d22313df9" style="color: rgb(0, 48, 135);"><u>Nominations
for the 2026 COIN-OR Cup Competition</u></a></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41);">Please also note:</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.</span></li><li style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.4; font-weight: 700; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Submission deadline: Wednesday, September 15th, 2026, 11:59pm ET.</span></li><li style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4;">
<span style="line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Please email your submission to
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 48, 135); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><a href="mailto:coin-cup-2026@coin-or.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="622fa93bb0ebf976bd76e19a" data-outlook-id="4f661099-0ecf-4c32-9483-c3bda8b8513f" style="color: rgb(0, 48, 135); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u>coin-cup-2026@coin-or.org</u></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"> as
a single zipped archive containing a description of the submission and copies of all relevant papers or documents in PDF format.</span></li><li style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 1.4;">
<span style="line-height: 1.4; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">The winner will be announced and celebrated during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, November 1–4, 2026.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(41, 41, 41); line-height: 16.8667px;">Committee members: Burcin Bozkaya (chair), Haihao Lu, Stefan Vigerske.</span></p>
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Thank you,</div>
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Burcin Bozkaya, Ph.D.</div>
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