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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Hold the date: 5-15 September
2021,</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> MCnet-CTEQ
Summer School</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">We
are pleased to announce the </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">2021
MCnet-CTEQ </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Summer
School on QCD, Electroweak Phenomenology, and Monte Carlo Generators to be held in</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">
Dresden, Germany, 5-15 September 2021.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#ff0000; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">We currently expect to host
the meeting in-person and will open applications later in the Spring. We are closely monitoring the progress around COVID-19 vaccinations and infection rates, and will adapt plans appropriate to the situation.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">In
addition to a focused introduction to perturbative QCD, Higgs boson phenomena and recent experimental results, the school will include lectures and tutorials on Monte Carlo Event Generators. The school is ideally suited for advanced graduate students and
young postdocs.</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">For
further information, including (future) application procedures, please refer to the website:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__indico.cern.ch_e_cteq-2Dmcnet-2D2021&d=DwMGaQ&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=sbzyxkeroY58e-CkP8hQtA&m=SfOJDsxWCtgpoBitikMJKwy8F-Rp_0nxhABOnCOYWhQ&s=ViNSzVBt6yCSPOu-7B7Zu87agHUkZJHRf7h8f8DVrk4&e=" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffff00; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">https://indico.cern.ch/e/cteq-mcnet-2021</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:#ffff00; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">which is linked from
both the MCnet and CTEQ webpages, or contact</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></span><a href="mailto:school@montecarlonet.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">school@montecarlonet.org</span></a></p>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The
MCnet--CTEQ Summer School Organizers</span></b> </div>
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