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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear QSI
</span><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">members</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I would like to give you some updates about the upcoming QSI kick-off events in Amsterdam. This is also the last opportunity for any QSI partner who has not registered yet for the
event to join the kick-off festivities in Amsterdam!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We would like to ask everybody to complete your registration information on the “registration” tab of this spreadsheet:
</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13edsd__2Ch4YlrzkLDlWhYVss97cHN0Trh2hv0Te-hw/edit#gid=1443269952"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13edsd__2Ch4YlrzkLDlWhYVss97cHN0Trh2hv0Te-hw/edit#gid=1443269952</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In particular, please indicate your arrival and departure date and your dietary restrictions (or select “none”). Feel free to get in touch with us in case you have any additions
or questions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On the
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13edsd__2Ch4YlrzkLDlWhYVss97cHN0Trh2hv0Te-hw/edit#gid=1643783619">
“schedule” tab</a> of the same spreadsheet, you can find the current schedule of the planned events, with locations and some more details. This tab will remain the place for you to check where and when we expect you to be. If there are any changes, we will
update this table.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On Monday, 26 June, the activities start from 15:00 with a small reception at Hotel Casa, followed by an introduction meeting from 15:30 to 16:00, after which we walk (circa 40 minutes)
to the starting point of a city boat tour. We hope that you arrive early enough on Monday to participate in these activities, please let us know otherwise.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On Tuesday, 27 June, the official kick-off activities will take place at Lab42 in Science Park Amsterdam. We would like to give everybody the opportunity to introduce themselves.
For this purpose, please prepare one slide according to the instructions on </span>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oN8-lpjdwTwFh3lXUip0K1TfyuwBi2xGDBPuSTws_Gk/edit#slide=id.p"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oN8-lpjdwTwFh3lXUip0K1TfyuwBi2xGDBPuSTws_Gk/edit#slide=id.p</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In case you have any questions, please get in touch with myself and
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a id="OWAAME5207D168837ED4885359E7C3B9584D9" href="mailto:g.v.millerson@uva.nl"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">@Grace Millerson</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
who is helping us with the organization of the event.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">We are looking forward to meeting you all in Amsterdam soon!</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Chris</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Christian Schaffner, University of Amsterdam (UvA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor Theoretical Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Theory of Computer Science (TCS) group, Informatics Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">QuSoft, Research Center for Quantum Software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Quantum.Amsterdam, Innovation Hub for Quantum Software, Technology and Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:c.schaffner@uva.nl"><span style="color:#0563C1">c.schaffner@uva.nl</span></a> web:
<a href="https://staff.science.uva.nl/c.schaffner"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://staff.science.uva.nl/c.schaffner</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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