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Hi all,

It is now one week past our official deadline for proposals. We agreed to have a one week unannouced extension for a few promised proposals, but that time is now past as well. If you know of anyone else still wanting to make a proposal, please tell them to do so quickly or they will be sure to be shut out of the process.

Here are the final totals of proposals submitted:

Workshops - 9 (and some very interesting ones at that)
Posters - 9
Roundtable - 1

Total Papers - 59
Asia - 23
Europe - 16
North America & Caribbean - 8
South America - 5
Australia - 3
Africa - 2
Keynotes - 2 of 4 abstracts submitted

We have approximately 12 hours available for paper presentations, and about 5 slots for concurrent workshops. So things are full, and perhaps a bit overfull. We will consider either having some concurrent paper presentations (in two rooms), asking that some papers be presented as small group roundtables or posters instead, or perhaps other strategies to accomodate as many presentations as possible, and allow time for discussion without back-to-back presentations. We may lose a few as well if travel funding falls through.

Vesa and I are expecting to have letters out about Workshop acceptance by the end of February, and letters about Papers acceptance out by 2nd week of March. Hopefully this will allow time for everyone to plan their travel.