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w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></span></ns0:PlaceType><span style='color:blue'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> </div> </td> <td rowspan=5 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:37.5pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;height:37.5pt'> <td width=757 valign=top style='width:567.7pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:37.5pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:blue'><u1:p></u1:p>Yang Wang</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:blue'>, (Co-Chair) Mathematics, Michigan State University<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2;height:37.5pt'> <td width=757 valign=top style='width:567.7pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in; height:37.5pt'> <p><b><span 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