I'm using the IEEE format to write a paper. I have 4 authors from two institutions so I need blocks of affiliations. This is how I want it to look like:
Author 1*, Author 2#, Author 3#, Author 4*
Affiliation 1, {1,4}@abc.com
Affiliation 2, {2,3}@def.com
Note that the 1st and the 4th are from one institution, and the 2nd and the 3rd from another one.
Everything is centered, of course.
How to do this?

